State Journal: Drug testing; Career move

What should Alabama do with a $130,000 windfall that must be spent on sports-related projects? Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to test student athletes for performance-enhancing drugs.

The money is Alabama's share of a settlement reached last year in a price-fixing lawsuit joined by all 50 states against Reebok International Ltd., the athletic-shoe company.

Mr. Sessions recently asked the Alabama High School Athletic Association to administer the drug testing. A spokesman for Mr. Sessions said the attorney general, who has final say over how to spend the money, might give it to individual districts...

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