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By WILLIE GRAY and JIMMY WIGFIELD Saraland High School was cleared of wrongdoing in the move of its star quarterback from Daphne by a unanimous vote of the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s Central Board Thursday. Saraland City Schools Board of Education attorney Nash Campbell said one central board member abstained at the end of the emergency two-hour meeting. The ruling allows the Spartans to continue in the Class 6A state playoffs. Spanish Fort High School had turned…
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Staff Report The Mobile Press-Register, once the oldest daily newspaper in the state, will cease 200 years of print publishing in February, its parent company announced Thursday. The Press-Register, along with the Birmingham News and Huntsville Times, will cease publishing their thrice-weekly newspapers after Feb. 26, according to Alabama Media Group. The media outlets will go all-digital afterward. Alabama Media Group will maintain an office in Mobile but the Press-Register’s production plant downtown — anchored by its $20 million press…
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UPDATED 11/2/22 5:10 p.m. Spartans stay in playoffs By JIMMY WIGFIELD Saraland High School did not violate any Alabama High School Athletic Association rules related to the move of a star football player from Daphne and will be allowed to participate in the state playoffs beginning Friday, Saraland City Schools attorney Nash Campbell said Wednesday. “The high school athletic association has notified the Saraland school system that they have found no violations of the AHSAA bylaws on the part of…
Read the Full Story AHSAA ruling expected soon By Jimmy Wigfield/Call News The private investigator hired by a man who charged the family of a Saraland High School football player with breaking eligibility rules said in an affidavit on Oct. 31 he cannot definitively determine the family broke those rules by maintaining residences in two districts. Investigator Eric Winberg said in the affidavit he was not aware Karle Lacey, the father of Spartans star quarterback K.J. Lacey, was operating a dog-breeding business from his…
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