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Airline Asked to Suspend Service, Free Legal Clinic in Tuscaloosa County

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The Northwest Alabama Regional Airport Board is asking one of its airlines to stop serving the airport.

The request comes after several complaints of unsatisfactory performance by SeaPort Airlines in the Muscle Shoals airport.

Local media reports the airport board unanimously voted earlier this week to request that the airline voluntarily remove its service.

The Oregon-based airline began offering four daily flights from Muscle Shoals to Nashville in January, but reduced its flight schedule to one daily flight earlier this summer.

SeaPort has been plagued by delays and canceled flights recently, much of it because of a nationwide pilot shortage that’s also affecting other regional airlines.

There will be a free legal clinic for low-income residents of Tuscaloosa County this afternoon. Alabama Public Radio’s Stan Ingold has more.

The clinic is being put on by the Alabama State Bar Volunteer Lawyers Program, working in cooperation with the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association, The University of Alabama School of Law and Legal Services Alabama.

The clinic is open to the more than 40,000 low-income residents of Tuscaloosa County coping with civil legal challenges. The clinic lawyers are experienced in various areas of the law and will be available to answer questions in the areas of divorce/custody/visitation, landlord/tenant issues, wills and estates, debts/bankruptcy/foreclosure and domestic violence.

Today’s clinic will be held from 3 PM to 5:30 PM at the Tuscaloosa County Public Library Main Branch.

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is back in full swing this month.

The disease commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease is a progressive and fatal neuromuscular disease. The affliction attacks and eventually kills the nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary muscles. Last year, the Ice Bucket Challenge raised more than $115 million dollars for research and care last year.

Huntsville native Rick Isaacs was diagnosed with the disease in November of 2013. He says the Ice Bucket Challenge is making a difference in the efforts to eradicate the disease.

“Because of the Ice Bucket Challenge, most people at least understand what it is and that it’s a debilitating, terminal disease that has no treatment and has no cure.”

Officials with the ALS Association Alabama Chapter say it costs more than $200,000 a year to take care of someone with ALS. To donate, you can go to alsalabama.org.

A memorial event for the late civil rights leader Julian Bond will be held this weekend in Montgomery.

The celebration of Bond's life will be held Saturday afternoon at the civil rights memorial at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Julian Bond served as the very first president of the public interest law firm.

Bond died last Saturday in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, at the age of 75. Relatives plan to spread his ashes in the Gulf of Mexico during a private ceremony.

Bond was active in civil rights beginning in the 1960s. He also served in the Georgia state legislature and was a longtime board chairman of the NAACP.

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