Heads and tales: Turin or bust
By Wade Kwon
Bobsleds and breadsticks: Bessemer native Vonetta Flowers is heading back to the Winter Olympics to compete in bobsled. The one-time Summer Olympics hopeful will look to repeat her gold-medal-winning performance in February in Turin, Italy. Another victory could cement Alabama’s lock on bobsledding …
• USBSF picks Alabama native to US Bobsled team [Associated Press]
War on terriers: In Jefferson and Shelby Counties, the animal shelters killed 10,438 cats and dogs in 2005. And that’s an improvement over 2004. About two of every three animals at the shelters are euthanized, thanks to irresponsible owners who don’t spay/neuter their pets.
• Humane Society ends year on top [Birmingham News]
Our missed Brooks: Before Rosa Parks, a black soldier made his stand on a Montgomery bus. Pfc. Thomas Edwards Brooks refused to re-board from the back entrance, and it cost him his life. The forgotten foot soldier could be honored with a statue or a marker some 56 years later.
• Five years before Parks, black soldier’s defiance on bus fatal [Associated Press]
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