Wasting their time?

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville recently appeared on “Capitol Journal” of Alabama Public Television and responded to the Alabama Democratic party chair’s vow to go to court and challenge Tuberville’s eligibility to run for governor, reports AL.com’s William Thornton.

At question is whether he was an Alabama resident the past seven years or was he a Florida resident too recently to run.

Tuberville said the Democrats would be wasting their time. He said he’s spent the past six years splitting time between Alabama and D.C. and that he’s lived most of the past 25 years here in Alabama.

The state says the minimum requirement for governor is to have lived in Alabama for seven years. If Tuberville has lived here the past six years, then that would put him over seven by the ’26 election.

Tuberville appears to have last voted in Florida in 2018, which is right at seven years before the next election.

Tuberville also points to a homestead exemption on an Alabama home bought by his wife and son.

So far Tuberville hasn’t released his Alabama income tax returns for the years in question. If he did indeed willingly become an Alabama resident early enough to qualify for next year’s governor’s election, it likely came at a price: Florida doesn’t have a state income tax.

Aircraft-carrier takedown

NorthStar Marine Dismantlement of Vermont has plans to handle a noteworthy disassembly job on the west bank of the Mobile River, reports AL.com’s Lawrence Specker.

The contract is worth more than a half billion dollars, and the vessel it’s tearing down is the former USS Enterprise, which was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. NorthStar is doing the work at the Modern American Recycling Service yard, south of the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico.

The job has been in the works for around 10 years. The Mobile Chamber opposed the project last November, and a Chamber representative said that organization is waiting to meet with companies involved before making a comment on the project.

Busted and sentenced

The saga of a high-end car-theft ring has led to the imprisonment of their leader, reports AL.com’s Carol Robinson.

Jamarus Deontae Hoskings of Greensboro was sentenced to five years for conspiring to steal at least 18 high-end vehicles and to more than eight years for receiving or possessing stolen motor vehicles. He’ll serve those two sentences concurrently.

The stolen vehicles, which included cars made by Lamborghini, Porsche and more, were valued at more than $800,000.

The thieves stole vehicles from private citizens and car dealerships across the nation, then brought them back to Tuscaloosa to sell below market price.

Closing

Post Office Pies’s last remaining location (Mountain Brook), 11 years after it first opened an Avondale location and a year after The New York Times placed it among “22 of the Best Pizza Places in the United States,” will stop serving up pizzas on June 29.

Quoting

“I’ll probably think about it after the season’s over.”

Auburn’s Bub Terrell, who batted .727 with eight RBIs to win MVP of the Tigers’ regional tournament.

By the Numbers

96%

That was the percentage of occupied spaces at the end of last year at Huntsville’s Parkway Place Mall, which has avoided the downward trend of most indoor shopping malls.

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