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NEWS STAFF/JOE SONGER

Drivers pass near a hole just off the pavement on Springdale Road in Tarrant. Four county roads, includingSpringdale, pass through Tarrant, and TarrantMayor Loxcil Tuck says the county is responsible for theirmaintenance.

RobertBentley“This recountis over andwe have wonit.”Some mayors say they’ll bill county for repairs

By BARNETT WRIGHTNews staff writer

Mayors of some JeffersonCounty cities said they planto bill Jefferson County forany work the cities have toperform on county roads to

keep them from becomingdangerous.

The mayors said they be-lieve the county has unlaw-fully abandoned its respon-s i b i l i t y f o r r o a dmaintenance and repair inits cities. County attorneys

disagree.Last June, the Jefferson

County Commission votedunanimously to end roadmaintenance in 31 cities asa budget-tightening meas-ure. Several mayors notifiedthe county that their cities

would not take responsibil-ity for county roads in theircities, saying that understate law the city wouldhave to agree to accept theroad before the county

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Tim JamesLost therecount toBentley byjust 270 votesout of492,314 cast

OIL SPILL IN THE GULF

BP’s Hayward may beout soon as point manCEO’s future point of confusion KEEP UPWITH CANDIDATE COVERAGE

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By RAY HENRYThe Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — BP’schairman said Friday thatCEO Tony Hayward is onhis way out as the compa-ny’s point man on the Gulfoil spill crisis, a day afterHayward enraged membersof Congress by offering fewanswers about how the en-vironmental disaster hap-pened. Other BP officials,however, said the switchhad been previously an-nounced and will not takeplace for some time.

BP Chairman Carl-Hen-ric Svanberg told Britain’sSky News television on Fri-

day that Hayward “is nowhanding over the opera-tions, the daily operationsto (BP Managing Director)Bob Dudley.” BP had saidthis month that Dudleywould take over the long-term response to the spillonce the leak was stopped,but millions of gallons con-tinue to spew and thatmilestone remains monthsaway.

Svanberg’s statementsowed confusion, withother BP officials sayingH a y w a r d r e m a i n s i ncharge.

“Until the acute part of

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BIRMINGHAM

11 at City Hall firedin bid to save money

NEWS STAFF/JOE SONGER

MauriceMcCarty awaitssentencing Friday in JeffersonCounty Circuit Court. Judge TeresaPulliam said she perceived noremorse inMcCarty and sentencedhim to life in prison with thepossibility of parole.

TonyHaywardBP CEO oncrisismanagementuntil leak iscapped,according tospokesman

By JOSEPH D. BRYANTNews staff writer

Pink slips were hand-de-livered to 11 appointed Bir-mingham city employeesFriday afternoon in a moveMayor William Bell saidwould help trim about$755,000 in fiscal 2011.

Chuck Faush, Bell’s chiefof staff, said the firingscame after city officialsevaluated employees andtheir jobs. He said Bell wascommitted to his pledge to“right size the mayor’s of-fice to effectively and effi-ciently perform city serv-ices.”

To reduce costs further,Faush said some workerson the mayor’s staff willtake pay reductions on top

of an across-the-board paycut recommended in Bell’s2011 budget.

While Bell has said thecuts were needed to savemoney, some employeesfired Friday will be re-placed.

“It’s according to need,”Faush said. “The idea wasto be more efficient and ef-fective right now. The in-tention was to efficientlyrun the office. You aregoing to find a couple ofpositions that must befilled, but for the most partthis was a right-sizingbased on the mayor’s posi-tion.”

The mayor appoints

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UAB student’skiller is givena life sentenceBy ERIC VELASCONews staff writer

Maurice McCarty on Friday was sen-tenced to a life term for the murder ofUAB student Kayla Fanaei, after a tear-filled hearing in which family and afriend talked about a victim who hadbeen dedicated to helping others.

“To him, Kayla may have been noth-ing,” the victim’s mother, Robin FanaeiGroom, said about McCarty. “He didn’tknow her. But to me, she was every-thing.”

Fanaei, 20, was shot on Oct. 8, 2007,during a robbery in the parking lot of aBirmingham elementary school near theUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham.

She was sitting in her BMW sports cartalking on a cell phone to a friend when

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INSIDEAdventurous ASO wins top honorWho won first prize in the 2009-10 ASCAP Awardsfor Adventurous Programming? The AlabamaSymphony Orchestra, that’s who. 2A