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LOCUST FORK, Ala. (AP) - A Patriot Guard rider was killed this morning in a motorcycle crash while on his way to honor a Locust Fork soldier killed in Iraq. State Trooper Curtis Summerville says 57-year-old Paul S. Robbins of Prattville died at the scene when the motorcycle and truck collided. The driver of the truck was transported to the hospital with injuries. The 10:07 a.m. collision happened on Blount County 13 between Alabama 160 and Alabama 79, a few miles north of Locust Fork. Robbins was among other Patriot Guard riders on their way to a medal ceremony for...

A 46-year-old commercial pilot and retired U.S. Air Force reservist said this week he plans to run for the U.S. Senate in next year's election as an independent. Marc Millican, of Anchorage, has never run for political office, and will have to collect 2,329 signatures by the date of the primary election in 2004 to make it onto the general election ballot, according to the state Division of Elections. The number is equal to 1 percent of the votes cast in the last general election. Millican said he wants to run for the seat now held by Sen. Lisa Murkowski,...