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A day’s toll Do we
Sonnie Hereford IV holds
his father’s hand in 1962
after troopers stopped
them from entering Fifth
Avenue Elementary School.
Soon, though, Hereford

still need
became the first black
student in Huntsville City

is 6 pit bulls
Schools. In 1970, a federal
desegregation order was
issued under which the
city’s schools still operate.

the feds
to walk
us to
school?
Huntsville City Schools is taking the first steps to shed a
37-year-old federal desegregation order. The system’s
attorney, though, warns that after years of federal scrutiny
and potential upheaval to achieve “unitary status,” the
school board may not get the result it wants. “It is going to
be painful, and it is going to be disruptive,” says J.R. Brooks.
Bryan Bacon/Huntsville Times
Michael Foote of New Hope shows one of his pit bulls’ strength as it hangs suspended in the IN LOCAL: How the federal order hampers local decisions. PAGE A13
air by its teeth, where it will stay until he gives an order to let go of the rope. Foote, who
runs Mercy Kennels, takes his gentle dogs to nursing homes to cheer up residents. “These
dogs are this way because they were raised in a good Christian home,” he tells people who
equate pit bulls with viciousness. For a story on the positive side of the breed, see A13.

Huntsville Animal Services Director Karen Hill Psychologist in porn Have an

Sheppard is tired of the pattern she sees with the six or
so pit bulls brought into the shelter on a typical day. case, wife found dead opinion?
Many are mangy, malnourished, abandoned. Traits that Michael Cometa, accused of The Times is
make these dogs so valuable – strength, tenacity, a videotaping a nude teen girl in his launching its
“tough” reputation – also make them victims. Rarely Huntsville office, and his seriously ill annual search
adopted because of their aggressiveness, most end up wife die from self-inflicted gunshot for community
having to be euthanized. wounds in Baldwin County. columnists.
IN LOCAL: A vicious circle of breeding and abandonment. PAGE A13 IN LOCAL: Trial was to begin Oct. 29. PAGE A19 IN FORUM, A23

A recipe for success A proud history

mixes UAH, business The past is not forgotten at
Grambling, where the memory of
“You don’t have many Eddie Robinson still looms large.
opportunities to develop
a business school from IN SPORTS: A&M falls 31-6. PAGE B1
scratch,” says Dr. David
Billings, who’ll retire as
dean of the newly
renamed UAH College IN PARADE: A guide to help
Blackwater under fire
of Business Administration. “It is an you through the confusing A senior Iraqi official says investigators have a
entrepreneurial activity in academia, task of selecting your videotape that shows guards from a private U.S.
and like most entrepreneurial health benefits for 2008. security contractor shot at civilians without
ventures, there’s a high risk.” Fall is open enrollment
provocation, killing 11 people last Sunday.
season for employer-
IN BUSINESS: How the school grew. PAGE C1 provided insurance plans. IN NEWS: Diplomats avoid each other. PAGE A3, A5
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