...are concerned that a 71-year-old agriculture research station will be shut down because of budget cuts. The J. Phil Campbell Sr. Natural Resource Conservation Center would be closed as part of President Bush's 2009 budget proposal, which...
...wrenching scenes of destruction from storms that killed hundreds in seven states.Rainsville, Hackleburg, Cordova and Phil Campbell in Alabama; Smithville in Mississippi. All have populations under 5,000. All lost at least 14 people. Rainsville...
...into the Lexington County plant after the company recalled about 1 million pounds of dried dog food Dec. 20, said Phil Campbell, the Atlanta-based FDA official in charge of the investigation. The FDA report represents the agency's findings...
...power and influence. Irvin was appointed agriculture commissioner in 1969 by Gov. Lester Maddox, when incumbent Phil Campbell turned Republican, resigned and went to Washington to serve in President Nixon's ag department. That makes Irvin...
...1967. He impressed Maddox enough for the governor to appoint him to a partial term as agriculture commissioner when Phil Campbell resigned to become U.S. undersecretary of agriculture in 1969.His adeptness at handling contentious issues has...
...similarities to the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when town after town lay flattened for nearly 90 miles.In Phil Campbell, a small town of 1,000 in northwest Alabama where 26 people died, the grocery store, gas stations and medical...
...behind the scenes to ensure funding for the center didn't fall out of the federal budget, Mr. Fleming said. The Phil Campbell Research Center will not close, Mr. Broun promised. He said he has spoken to President Bush about the Oconee County...
...researched antibiotic resistance and its human links. She worked for a year at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Phil Campbell Research Center in Watkinsville with Dr. Dori Franklin. After that, she studied two years with Dr. Margie Lee of...
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