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An Alabama lawmaker has been arrested on a domestic violence charge after his wife accused him of threatening to beat her. Republican state Rep. Tracy Estes, 57, was booked Friday night at the Marion County jail on a misdemeanor charge of third-degree domestic violence.

State lawmakers from Mississippi and Alabama are playing each other in softball this weekend to raise money for charity. The states' Republican governors are placing friendly bets on the outcome.

The late U.S. House speaker Tip O'Neill once said that "all politics is local." It can be argued that in a scarcely populated and rural state like…