HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Police said as many as 400 people and businesses in Alabama and Georgia may be victims of a scam involving stolen credit card and debit card numbers.

An investigation revealed Wednesday involves hundreds of cases in which card numbers were stolen after cards were used at Huntsville restaurants and carryout businesses.

Police and the FBI have surveillance videos from hotels and discount stores in Oxford and the Atlanta area where suspects were seen using the card numbers, Huntsville Public Safety Director Rex Reynolds said in a statement.

The suspects on the surveillance videos could be from the Huntsville area, police said.

The joint police and FBI investigation began May 21, and now may involve as many as 400 victims, including consumers and banks, police said.

Information Technology provider TekLinks has opened an office in Huntsville to serve its North Alabama clients.

Birmingham-based TekLinks now has five regional offices.

"Huntsville has always been known as a high tech city and we look forward to working with our existing clients and new clients that we will be able to serve out of our Huntsville office," TekLinks President Stuart Raburn said.

TekLinks has more than 85 employees with offices in Alabama, Mississippi and North Florida. It operates a 5,600 square foot TekLinks Data Center in Birmingham, which handles hosted services needs for their clients.

The largest building permit issued during the week of May 21-25 in the city of Huntsville went to Brasfield & Gorrie LLC, $8.5 million, for building for the city of Huntsville at 6899 Governors West

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Alabama Open Houses Finally Have a Home on the World Wide Web

Birmingham, Al – June 4, 2007 - Home Buyers looking to purchase real estate throughout the Alabama area now have a new tool to help streamline the viewing process. OpenHouseAlabama.com is Alabama’s first and only real estate marketing company exclusively dedicated to advertising open houses via the internet.

To maximize visibility in the increasingly competitive real estate market, many agents and owners turn to holding open houses for extra exposure. Due to major technological advancements, agents no longer rely on simply placing a black and white ad in the newspaper. Rather, they are looking to a more cost effective and convenient method of displaying properties to the public. The real estate industry has turned to Alabama internet company openhousealabama.com to do just that.

Honeywell announced today that it has awarded scholarships to 265 teachers from 21 countries and 43 states to attend the Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy programs from June 18 to June 29, 2007 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Designed in partnership with the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, the Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy programs provide teachers with new and innovative techniques to educate their students about science and math. Teachers complete 50 hours of professional development and participate in an intensive educator curriculum focused on space science and exploration in addition to participating in real-life astronaut training.

"The importance of inspiring our next generation to pursue careers in science, technology and engineering fields cannot be underestimated," said Thomas Buckmaster, President, Honeywell Hometown Solutions. "Teachers are the catalysts for learning and we are delighted to provide them with the tools and resources to help them bring science to life in the classroom."

The city of Huntsville holds its annual Wally Vess Youth Fishing Rodeo Saturday at Brahan Spring Park's lagoon, south of Drake Avenue.

The first 350 children ages 6-12 to register will get to fish for prizes from 8:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. Prizes, which include two lifetime Alabama fishing licenses, will be awarded at 11 a.m. Registration begins at 7 a.m.

Participants should be accompanied by an adult and bring their rod and reel and bait.

The fishing rodeo, named for the late Wally Vess, the former owner of Buster's Bait & Tackle, is sponsored by Buster's Bait & Tackle, HEMSI ambulance service, The Huntsville Times, Wal-Mart, the Alabama

The Lincoln Church of Christ will host a Super Saturday VBS from 9 am to 2 pm on Saturday June 9th. This special event will be a great opportunity for the kids and even adults to learn, play and have a whole lot of fun. Breakfast and Lunch will be provided for everyone. Call the office at 536-7211 or 536-7226 to pre-register

North Alabama Native American Artifacts and Collections' is an E-Book and is published exclusively on CDROM as a webpage through New World Web Designs (http://www.newworldwebdesigns.com/nativealabama.htm). 'North Alabama Native American Artifacts And Collections' includes over 7500 digital color photographs. View rare Native American artifacts: arrowheads, pottery, effigies, greenstone celts, beads, pipes, shell ornaments, ceremonial disks, paint bowls, game pieces and discodials, drills, gorgets and pendants, mortar stones and pestles, regional artifact shows, maps, mounds, and museums.

Examine over 70 prehistoric Native American village sites in North Alabama which include village site descriptions, locational maps, and all related artifacts recovered from each site in an automatic slideshow format created with Flash animation.

While Drew Gentry crews for balloons that use propane gas, his new business focuses on a fuel that may help reduce United States dependence on foreign oil.

Gentry, a Decatur native who lives in Huntsville, and fellow student Justin Anthony from Birmingham, both 22, recently founded their company, EnerSight Fuels Inc., to produce biodiesel fuel.

Biodiesel is made from renewable sources such as soybeans, oils and fats. It does not contain petroleum, but it can be blended with regular diesel fuel and can run in any diesel engine built after 1993. With some adjustments, older engines can use biodiesel, too.

KAIJA WILKINSONStaff Reporter
Alabama business leaders who participated in an online survey reported that they think the state's economy is stronger than that of the overall United States. Results of the Alabama Business Leaders Confidence Index, produced by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama and sponsored by Compass Bank, were released Monday.

Panelists from Mobile were most confident of leaders in any of Alaba-

ma's four major metro areas with an overall index of 61. An index of greater than 50 indicates that leaders expect economic growth during the next quarter, while less than 50 shows that they don't.