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Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said today that he has no doubts about President Obama’s citizenship and that a news account. . . . . .from a town hall meeting last weekend that suggested he did was erroneous. Shelby, in a brief interview with POLITICO after he appeared at the White House, dismissed a report in the Cullman (Ala.) Times in which he was captured as indulging a constituent’s question about whether the president was born on American soil, a widely debunked rumor held over from the presidential campaign. “Someone asked me that in a meeting and basically what I did...

WASHINGTON – A U.S. senator has weighed in on the continuing controversy over Barack Obama's eligibility for office by saying he has never seen proof the new president was actually born in Hawaii. "Well, his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate," Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., told constituents in Cullman County. "You have to be born in America to be president."

Downtown Tuscaloosa due for a makeover City approves plan to begin $80 million project By Adrienne Nettles Staff Writer July 09, 2003 The project The city and federal government plan to build upscale offices, condominiums, restaurants and a parking garage, all anchored by a new federal court building with a pond and pedestrian promenade, to an area bordered by University Boulevard, 20th Avenue, Sixth Street, Ninth Street, 22nd Avenue and 23rd Avenue. TUSCALOOSA | City Council took the first step Tuesday toward an $80 million joint venture between the city and federal government to revitalize a seven-block area of downtown...