MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. John Edwards brought his campaign for president to Alabama Tuesday night looking for southern votes and money.

Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. announces that shareholder Ted Meadows and associates Roger Smith and Navan Ward have been admitted to the Mississippi Bar.

Pfizer, Inc. acquired a handful of top-selling drugs when it bought rival Pharmacia Corp. for $57 billion last month and became nation’s largest pharmaceutical company.

On Dec. 10, 1999, 12-year-old honor student Jeffrey Jernigan was riding in the front passenger’s seat of a 1993 Oldsmobile Delta 88 driven by his brother. While driving near Smut Eye, Alabama, they were involved in a head-on collision, and the Delta 88’s passenger compartment collapsed on Jeffrey.

Presidential hopeful Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., made an appearance Tuesday in Montgomery, sharing the spotlight with a four-time heavyweight boxing champion.

MONTGOMERY (AP) – When Alabama nursing homes run TV ads criticizing trial lawyers, they are casting a wide net that falls on Gov. Bob Riley’s son.

MONTGOMERY Gov. Bob Riley’s son is on the patients’ side of a tort reform war between trial lawyers and nursing home owners, one of the most bitter battles of this legislative season.

West Alabama Timber has filed a lawsuit against Catepillar, Inc. and Thompson Tractor, Inc. because of the injuries and damages suffered as a result of a defective skidder.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Democratic presidential candidates aren’t ignoring Alabama, even though no Democrat has carried the state since Jimmy Carter in 1976.

North Carolina Senator John Edwards and Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt have already visited Alabama and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry will be in Birmingham Tuesday. Edwards was in Montgomery in January for a fund-raising reception and it paid off.