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MOBILE , Ala. (AP) - A
fire aboard a 46-foot pleasure boat in Bon
MyFox Gulf Coast -
Mobile,AL,USA
The Coast Guard rescued 15 people from the "Ellisa," and took them to
Dauphin Island . Two others were taken to Dog River in south
Mobile County .
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Senate wisely rejects wind
entitlement
Press-Register -
al.com -
Mobile,AL,USA
Those subsidies have provided incentives for the owners of vacation
homes in high-risk places like Dauphin Island to repeatedly
rebuild after storms have ...
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Senate rejects adding wind to flood insurance program
WASHINGTON Despite pleas from some Gulf Coast lawmakers Wednesday, the
U.S. Senate swamped an attempt to add optional windstorm coverage to the
federally backed National Flood Insurance Program.
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Owner of Ship & Shore, Ben Buerger, 84, passes away. Mr.
Ben has been a true asset and friend to our Island. He was one of the
founders of the Volunteer Fire Dept and the owner and operator of "Ship
& Shore". After Hurricane Fredric in '79 his store was destroyed. He
quickly reopened in another location providing us groceries and supplies
while the bridge was gone. Since then He and Bobbie operated the only
grocery and hardware store on the Island. All of us at Boardwalk Realty
are keeping Mr. Ben's family and friends in our prayers.
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Ben Buerger, mainstay on Dauphin Island, laid to rest Monday
Friends and family turned out Monday at St. Francis Episcopal Church to
pay final respects to Ben M. Buerger, an iconic Dauphin Island
businessman perhaps best known for riding out Hurricane Frederic in his
store.
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Ben Buerger, mainstay on
Dauphin Island, laid to rest Monday
Press-Register -
al.com -
Mobile,AL,USA
By KIM LANIER Friends and family turned out Monday at St. Francis
Episcopal Church to pay final respects to Ben M. Buerger, an iconic
Dauphin Island ...
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak dresses in formal attire
SunHerald.com, MS -
May 2, 2008
One day I found a male Rose-breasted perched 20 yards
off the path in the Dauphin Island Sanctuary. I showed that bird
to maybe forty people over the hour ...
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FYI The Common Loon Carry- out Café
& Market will open later this month at 1010 Bienville Blvd. on
Dauphin Island, The café owners are Kathy and Stan Alford.
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Army unit prepares for deployment
Despite heavy rains pouring down outside, several hundred people
gathered in Fort Whiting Armory on Saturday morning to give a warm
send-off to 54 members of a Mobile-based Army Reserve unit being
deployed to Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Sand Island Lighthouse Getting Help
WKRG-TV, AL - Apr 30,
2008
By Chad Petri Reporter The Sand Island Lighthouse
sits about four miles south of Dauphin Island. It’s aging, not
gracefully. “If we had another Katrina I ...
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Extra ferry will boost the
coastal economy
Press-Register -
al.com -
Mobile,AL,USA
FERRY SERVICE between
Dauphin Island and Fort Morgan may be improved considerably,
to the credit of the Alabama Department of Transportation and the
private ...
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College briefs
Press-Register -
al.com -
Mobile,AL,USA
The Estuarium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab has changed its name
to the George F. Crozier Estuarium, in recognition of Crozier's
leadership in the study and ...
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';Fine Line' between
winning and losing
Press-Register -
al.com -
Mobile,AL,USA
By JEFF DUTE The evening before the 50th anniversary Dauphin Island
Race, Johnny Roberts described how the fastest boats last year were able
to find a ...
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Quiet beauty in reclusive
bird's simple plumage
Biloxi Sun Herald -
MS, USA
On one of my earliest birding trips to Dauphin Island, I
encountered a group of excited birders searching for Swainson's Warblers
in Shell Mound Park. ...
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Dauphin Island Regatta Making A Comeback
WKRG-TV, AL - 10
hours ago
“The challenge could be no wind or too much wind you
never know what dauphin island is going to bring to you,” says
Principle Race Officer Cathy Cromartie. ...
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Authorities confiscate gill nets
al.com, AL - 10 hours
ago
Marine Resources officials say a 300-foot recreational
net was confiscated Sunday morning on Dauphin Island after the
man using it, Francis Crenshaw of ...
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Cooks take their gumbo seriously
Press-Register - al.com, AL -
Apr 23, 2008
They take their gumbo seriously in places like Heron
Bay, Dauphin Island, Coden and Bayou La Batre. The quickest way I
know of to start a fight in those ...
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Art Gallery
Lagniappe -
Mobile,AL,USA
Now the sprawling oaks and shaded sands of the gathering point play host
to another first, the Dauphin Island Art Festival. Festival
organizers boast of a ...
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Mobile Bay ferry to add
second boat for this summer
Press-Register -
al.com -
Mobile,AL,USA
By KATHERINE SAYRE Ferry service across the mouth of Mobile Bay could
double this summer with the use of two vessels between
Dauphin Island
and Fort Morgan ...
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Renowned sport fishing
photographer coming to Spanish Fort
Gulf Coast Newspapers -
Daphne,AL,USA
By Curt Chapman The Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation is bringing
internationally acclaimed sport fishing photographer Bill Boyce to the
Eastern Shore for ...
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Fixing Billy Goat Hole
Press-Register -
al.com -
Mobile,AL,USA
By JEFF DUTE Fishermen arriving at Dauphin Island's Billy Goat
Hole around the first of June will find a new concession/restroom
building and that they'll ...
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Travelogue - Holly
Springs, Miss., Pilgrimage offers tours of ...
The
Birmingham News -
al.com -
Birmingham,AL,USA
That can be the cry these days as more than 300 species of birds have
begun arriving on Dauphin Island, making their way north after
spending the winter ...
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Do We Really Care? The Future of Our
Beaches
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Tossing Mullet
Lagniappe -
Mobile,AL,USA
It certainly has not been looked at since the separation of Riley Boykin
Smith Island from Dauphin Island after
Hurricane Katrina. ...
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DAUPHIN ISLAND PREPS FOR
ANNUAL AVIAN HOMECOMING
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LLOYD'S of LONDON: Lack
of natural disasters putting pressure on insurance firms...
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Day of Caring Recipient
MyFox Gulf Coast -
Mobile,AL,USA
DAUPHIN ISLAND -- Last summer, members of the FOXTen family got
their hands dirty for a good cause. We wanted to help out a couple
living on Dauphin Island. ...
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Dad pleads not guilty in
deaths of 4 children tossed from bridge
al.com -
Birmingham,AL,USA
(AP) — A man has pleaded not guilty to capital murder charges in the
deaths of his four children who were tossed to their deaths from the
Dauphin Island ...
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PIER IN PERIL
Press-Register - al.com, AL
By MIKE THOMPSON The future of fishing at the Dauphin
Island Pier apparently rests with the fickle currents that over the
last two years have effectively ...
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Sports Soundoff
Press-Register -
al.com, AL - 6 hours ago
Dauphin Island Pier ideas -- My
idea about the Dauphin Island pier: They ought to
fix it up a bit and put a restaurant on top. ...
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May your jinx bird of paradise fly up your nose
SunHerald.com, MS - 7
hours ago
For three springs on Dauphin Island I heard
"Hooded Warbler" included on practically everybody's list but mine. It
was a classic "you should have been here ...
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Government officials hold solutions
Valley Beautiful Beacon, TN -
Mar 27, 2008
Dauphin Island, just below Mobile, was a
showplace where the wealthy had their beach homes. Most were quite
spectacular. But when you looked out over the ...
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Coast Guard searching for missing sailors
MyFox Gulf Coast, AL -
Mar 27, 2008
Various small boat crews from Coast Guard Stations: Gulf
Port, Miss., Pascagoula, Miss., Dauphin Island, Ala., Destin,
Fla., Panama City, Fla., ...
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Nature tourism initiative hits the Gulf Coast
Gulf Coast Newspapers, AL -
2 hours ago
Furthermore, audience members watched presentations from
Dr. John Dindo of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab and from Margaret
Sedlecky of the Weeks Bay Reserve. ...
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Report: Dredging not cause of erosion
A court-ordered study has concluded that the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers' dredging practices in the Mobile Bay ship channel did not
cause erosion on Dauphin Island, according to documents released this
week.
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Island weighs public beach
The Town of Dauphin Island wants to buy land on the undeveloped west end
for a public beach, but a plan to have it open by Memorial Day weekend
has been delayed, officials said this week.
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Fish harvests up despite gill net rules
Despite emergency state rules that cut gillnetters' fishing time almost
in half, the harvest of some species of fish increased by tens of
thousands of pounds in 2007.
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Tanker plant impact should ripple to Gulf
Northrop Grumman Corp.'s winning a $40 billion jet tanker contract was a
ray of sunshine for a condominium-glutted resort market and the Eastern
Shore, which has had more newly built homes than buyers.
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Best fishing found to the south
al.com, AL - 1 hour
ago
The water is in much better shape down around Dauphin
Island and the lower Mobile Bay rigs and reefs. Fishermen are
catching speckled trout from the deeper ...
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WINGED “TOURISTS” FLOCK TO DAUPHIN ISLAND FOR SPRINGTIME
SPECTACLE Beginning
in early April, Dauphin Island hosts thousands of colorful winged
“tourists” as they make the barrier island their first
rest stop after an exhausting flight across the Gulf of Mexico from
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Reenactors
demonstrate soldiers' lives at Fort Gaines
Press-Register - al.com
- Mobile,AL,USA
By JILLIAN KRAMER DAUPHIN ISLAND -- Three men fired a small gold
cannon at Fort
Gaines on
Saturday, prompting more than a dozen sightseers to whip out ...
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Snow Birds Migrate to Dauphin Island,
Alabama
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Coast
insurance bills moving on
MONTGOMERY -- A state Senate committee Wednesday approved three bills
intended to help with the affordability and availability of property
insurance along the Alabama coast.
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Sulphur
Rock Magnet sixth-graders explore the world
Batesville Daily Guard
(subscription) - Batesville,AR,USA
This year, the sixth-graders will leave Thursday to Dauphin
Island,
Ala., for a two-day sea camp adventure. There, they will explore
the area’s salt water ...
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ADEM
fines ExxonMobil for gas release
Press-Register - al.com
- Mobile,AL,USA
By BEN RAINES A cloud of poisonous gas that washed over Dauphin Island
will cost ExxonMobil
a $90000 penalty and result in new safety measures on three of ...
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Alabama
gearing up for spring break
South Bend Tribune, IN -
9 hours ago
Spring is also a nice time of year for bird-watching at
Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Fort Morgan Historical Park and
Fort Gaines at Dauphin Island. ...
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Woman
survives fall from bridge
Press-Register - al.com
- Mobile,AL,USA
By KATHERINE SAYRE A 63-year-old Mobile woman fell off the Dauphin
Island bridge early Friday
morning, plunging about 20 feet into the water below, ...
IMW NOTE: The bridge is not a toy!
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Mobile
County Getting More Tornado Sirens
WKRG-TV - Mobile,AL,USA
But the good news is the agency has gotten federal money to buy and
install extra sirens in parts of Prichard, Irvington, Dauphin Island
and Satsuma. ...
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Bill
would help with hurricane rebuilding
WASHINGTON -- Alabama, Mississippi and Texas would become eligible for
more hurricane-related rebuilding money under a plan by U.S. Sen. Mary
Landrieu, D-La., aimed at jump-starting a housing bill stuck in a
congressional committee for eight months.
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Man
admits using dead brother's ID to get FEMA aid
A Mobile County man pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing his dead brother's
identity to obtain disaster relief from the federal government after
Hurricane Katrina.
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Alabama
beaches gear up for spring break
San Jose Mercury News, USA -
Feb 19, 2008
Spring is also a nice time of year for bird-watching at
Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Fort Morgan Historical Park and Fort
Gaines at Dauphin Island. ...
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Netters
ask for looser rules
Unhappy with an emergency rule change last year designed to cut their
annual Spanish mackerel harvest roughly in half, Alabama's gillnetters
have asked state officials to loosen the rules, a change they say is
needed if their industry is to survive.
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Colonial
history abounded in 1699-1810, renown botanist documented ...
The Mississippi Press - gulflive.com
- Pascagoula,MS,USA
Dauphin Island was split in two, the western part renamed
"Petit Bois." Sept. 18, another hurricane with winds from the
north/northeast and accompanied by ...
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Flotilla
receives $25,000 donation
The Mobile County Sheriff's Flotilla -- the volunteer force that conducts
search-and-rescue missions in area waters -- received a $25,000 donation
Friday that will be used to buy sonar equipment.
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Bama
snapper, grouper safe to eat
Eating red snapper or grouper caught off Alabama's coast should pose no
health threat, despite a recent warning from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration that several species from "the Northern Gulf of
Mexico" contain a potentially deadly toxin.
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Board
names Dauphin Island Sea Lab director
Montgomery
Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA
DAUPHIN ISLAND -- The marine lab director from Humboldt
State University in northern California has been selected to become
the next executive director of ...
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Birding
from backwoods Mississippi to Alabama via Texas
Gulf Coast Newspapers - Daphne,AL,USA
After retiring in Fairhope
about 15 years ago, I began to bird places like Fort Morgan, Polecat Bay
and Dauphin Island, major destinations for avid birders.
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Dauphin
Island
gets parade season rolling
Press-Register - al.com
- Mobile,AL,USA
By ROBERT McCLENDON When members of the Bowling
Green marching band headed to Dauphin
Island on
Saturday, they went expecting to take in a Gulf Coast ...
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Coastal
buyout applause
Orlando
Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
The same is true for Dauphin
Island,
Ala. Federal dollars have helped reconstruct the island's
west end five times in the past 25 years. ...
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Introduction
planned for Alabama Scenic River Trail
Tuscaloosa
News (subscription) - Tuscaloosa,AL,USA
His Georgia-Alabama trip to Dauphin Island took 49 days and ended
Sept. 23, 2006. He took thousands of photographs that are on his Web page,
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Work
on Sand Island Lighthouse set
Press-Register - al.com
- Mobile,AL,USA
Deactivated by the Coast Guard in 1933, the lighthouse remained in federal
hands until the Town of Dauphin Island, in partnership with the
association, ...
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Christmas
tree recycling centers set up
Press-Register - al.com
- Mobile,AL,USA
In 2006, about 8000 old Christmas trees were collected and carried to Dauphin
Island for sand dune restoration, Haskins said.
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Sea
Lab interim director selected
Press-Register - al.com
- Mobile,AL,USA
By GEORGE R. ALTMAN Dauphin Island Sea Lab leaders have chosen an
interim replacement for the lab's retiring executive director, and a
search committee has ...
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Sanibel
marine lab director specializes in dark, deep
The News-Press - Fort
Myers,FL,USA
In this country, he did post-doctoral work at the Dauphin Island
Sea Lab in Alabama and worked in the Department of Biological Sciences at
the University of ...
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MoBay
Storage only bidder on site
Press-Register - al.com
- Mobile,AL,USA
Mayor Jeff Collier of Dauphin Island and Mayor Stan Wright of Bayou
La Batre wrote letters in October to Gov. Bob
Riley, urging state officials to expedite ...
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Yesterday's
news
Press-Register - al.com
- Mobile,AL,USA
... and Forney Johnson, Birmingham
attorney, filed an application for funds to build a bridge to Dauphin
island with the Reconstruction Finance corporation. ...
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Corps'
coastal buyout plan makes sense for Mississippi and the nation
Press-Register - al.com
- Mobile,AL,USA
The same is true for Dauphin Island, in southwest Alabama. Federal
dollars have helped reconstruct the west end of Dauphin Island five
times in the last 25 ...
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Admiral
William H. Stewart (1926-2007) An Islander, friend, mentor and
patriot
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Dauphin
Island
to offer virtual tour
Press-Register - al.com
- Mobile,AL,USA
By KATHERINE SAYRE DAUPHIN ISLAND -- Town officials will offer a
glimpse today into the island's future using technology designed
for homeland security, ...
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Bidding
process expected to start soon on offshore tract
Press-Register - al.com - Mobile,AL,USA
Lawley's announcement came after both Mayor Jeff Collier of Dauphin
Island and Mayor Stan Wright of Bayou
La Batre wrote letters last week to Lawley and to ...
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Weather
might finally cooperate with birdfest
Clanton Advertiser - Clanton,AL,USA
... watch researchers band hummingbirds, while one trip will go to Dauphin
Island Sea Lab to go on a cruise in the bay to see pelicans and other
waterfowl. ...
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Foster
children get the gift of a fishing trip (Watch VIDEO)
The Northwest Florida Daily News - Fort
Walton Beach,FL,USA
"I caught 20 in one day before down at Dauphin
Island docks," he said. "This is my third time deep
sea fishing. I have never caught three fish at once ...
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Youth
notes
The Huntsville
Times - al.com - Huntsville,AL,USA
... with a variety of hands-on activities. Rising seventh-, eighth-
and ninth-grade students stayed at Dauphin
Island and were led by the Sea Lab educators.
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Birthed
by Katrina, a new isle grows
Press-Register - al.com - Mobile,AL,USA
By BEN RAINES Alabama has a new island that's almost as long as Dauphin
Island. But it's so new, no one is quite sure what to call it. The new
island used ...
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taking steps to keep residents safe in accidents
Press-Register - al.com -
Mobile,AL,USA
POSITIVE STEPS are being taken to protect the residents of Dauphin
Island from industrial accidents, after a toxic cloud floated over the
island and ...
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Dauphin
Island works on response plan after gas leak from offshore ...
al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
By RUSS HENDERSON DAUPHIN ISLAND -- A cloud of highly toxic gas
from a nearby natural gas platform rolled across this small, quiet beach
town early this ...
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