Former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford will be sentenced this morning in federal court for accepting bribes during his time on the Jefferson County Commission.

This marks the end of the road for the Escalade.

A fitting tribute to what has happened. Just a short distance from the former Mayor’s home in Fairfield is a modified work sign.

The best of Larry Langford in photos.

Photo by lamin8


Photo by Jonathan Purvis

Photo by Birmingham Public Library (AL)

And my personal favorite…Larry captured playing the video games

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Lo Wung, 42, taught the monkeys so they could entertain crowds outside a shopping centre in Nshi, in eastern China’s Hubei province.

But all it took was one slip by the trainer and it was on. A quick-thinking monkey floored him with a round house kick to the head.

Photo: CEN

Hu Luang, 32, a bystander who photographed the incident, said: “I saw one punch him in the eye - he grabbed another by the ear and it responded by grabbing his nose. They were leaping and jumping all over the place. It was better than a Bruce Lee film.”

At one point the monkey trainer grabbed a staff to hit the monkeys, only to find himself facing a stick-brandishing monkey that cracked him over the head.

Photo: CEN

He only managed to get the monkeys under control by tangling them up in the rope that had been used to stop them running off.

A 53-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly hitting her live-in boyfriend in the head with a raw steak. According to a Marion County Sheriff’s Office report, the man told deputies Elsie Egan repeatedly hit him with the uncooked meat and slapped his face after he refused a piece of sliced bread. The man said he wanted a bread roll.

Egan denied hitting the man with the steak but did admit to slapping him, saying she did it “so that he could learn.” The man told deputies that Egan was his live-in girlfriend. He declined medical assistance. Egan was charged with abuse of a disabled adult. According to online records, she has been released on $2,500 bond.

Just looking at the mug shot, I think she was the one beat with the steak. What kind of steak was this? It’s got to be a larger cut of steak to be able hit somebody repeatedly in the head with it. Surely not a 8 oz. filet mignon.

I think it would be a nice gesture for Festville fans to order steak from Omaha Steaks and mail it to her for Christmas.

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I love how the guy on the left part of the group is having his head sliced open by the lid of can.

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Jesus Christ was called for jury duty this week in Jefferson County.

Court officials were skeptical at first when on Monday a potential juror submitted a name change form with “Jesus Christ” on it. But the 59-year-old Birmingham woman, who previously went by Dorothy Lola Killingworth, assured the presiding judge that was her name.

“It raised eyebrows, so I asked her if that were truly her name,” Circuit Court Judge Scott Vowell (pictured right) said. “She assured me that it was. She had her name changed in the Probate Court, and she presented her driver’s license.”

Christ was sent to Judge Clyde Jones’s courtroom for a criminal case. She was excused because she was disruptive, court officials said. Instead of answering questions, she was asking them, a court employee in Jones’s office said.

Efforts to reach Christ today were unsuccessful.

Court administrator Sandra Turner said she and others in the jury assembly room were somewhat shocked at first when the woman insisted Christ was her name. And when her name was called, several potential jurors laughed out loud.

Unlike some Jefferson County residents, Christ did not try to get out of jury duty, Turner said.

“She was perfectly happy to serve,” said Turner.

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