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Four county roads, including Springdale, pass through Tarrant, and Tarrant Mayor Loxcil Tuck says the county is responsible for their maintenance. Robert Bentley “This recount is over and we have won it.” Some mayors say they’ll bill county for repairs By BARNETT WRIGHT News staff writer Mayors of some Jefferson County cities said they plan to bill Jefferson County for any work the cities have to perform on county roads to keep them from becoming dangerous. The mayors said they be- lieve the county has unlaw- fully abandoned its respon- sibility for road maintenance and repair in its cities. County attorneys disagree. Last June, the Jefferson County Commission voted unanimously to end road maintenance in 31 cities as a budget-tightening meas- ure. Several mayors notified the county that their cities would not take responsibil- ity for county roads in their cities, saying that under state law the city would have to agree to accept the road before the county See ROADS Page 6A Tim James Lost the recount to Bentley by just 270 votes out of 492,314 cast OIL SPILL IN THE GULF BP’s Hayward may be out soon as point man CEO’s future point of confusion KEEP UP WITH CANDIDATE COVERAGE y y F Fo ol ll lo ow w d da ai il ly y c ca am mp pa ai ig gn n c co ov ve er ra ag ge e o on n t th he e c ca an nd di id da at te es s a at t a al l. .c co om m, , t th he e o on nl li in ne e h ho om me e o of f T Th he e B Bi ir rm mi in ng gh ha am m N Ne ew ws s: : a al l. .c co om m/ /e el le ec ct ti io on n By RAY HENRY The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — BP’s chairman said Friday that CEO Tony Hayward is on his way out as the compa- ny’s point man on the Gulf oil spill crisis, a day after Hayward enraged members of Congress by offering few answers about how the en- vironmental disaster hap- pened. Other BP officials, however, said the switch had been previously an- nounced and will not take place for some time. BP Chairman Carl-Hen- ric Svanberg told Britain’s Sky News television on Fri- day that Hayward “is now handing over the opera- tions, the daily operations to (BP Managing Director) Bob Dudley.” BP had said this month that Dudley would take over the long- term response to the spill once the leak was stopped, but millions of gallons con- tinue to spew and that milestone remains months away. Svanberg’s statement sowed confusion, with other BP officials saying Hayward remains in charge. “Until the acute part of See OIL Page 6A BIRMINGHAM 11 at City Hall fired in bid to save money NEWS STAFF/JOE SONGER Maurice McCarty awaits sentencing Friday in Jefferson County Circuit Court. Judge Teresa Pulliam said she perceived no remorse in McCarty and sentenced him to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Tony Hayward BP CEO on crisis management until leak is capped, according to spokesman By JOSEPH D. BRYANT News staff writer Pink slips were hand-de- livered to 11 appointed Bir- mingham city employees Friday afternoon in a move Mayor William Bell said would help trim about $755,000 in fiscal 2011. Chuck Faush, Bell’s chief of staff, said the firings came after city officials evaluated employees and their jobs. He said Bell was committed 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 workers on the mayor’s staff will take pay reductions on top of an across-the-board pay cut recommended in Bell’s 2011 budget. While Bell has said the cuts were needed to save money, some employees fired Friday will be re- placed. “It’s according to need,” Faush said. “The idea was to be more efficient and ef- fective right now. The in- tention was to efficiently run the office. You are going to find a couple of positions that must be filled, but for the most part this was a right-sizing based on the mayor’s posi- tion.” The mayor appoints See FIRINGS Page 6A UAB student’s killer is given a life sentence By ERIC VELASCO News staff writer Maurice McCarty on Friday was sen- tenced to a life term for the murder of UAB student Kayla Fanaei, after a tear- filled hearing in which family and a friend talked about a victim who had been dedicated to helping others. “To him, Kayla may have been noth- ing,” the victim’s mother, Robin Fanaei Groom, said about McCarty. “He didn’t know her. But to me, she was every- thing.” Fanaei, 20, was shot on Oct. 8, 2007, during a robbery in the parking lot of a Birmingham elementary school near the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She was sitting in her BMW sports car talking on a cell phone to a friend when See SENTENCING Page 6A INSIDE Adventurous ASO wins top honor Who won first prize in the 2009-10 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming? The Alabama Symphony Orchestra, that’s who. 2A
