"The message is this: We are coming back, " Tuscaloosa County Probate Judge Hardy McCollum said during the Friday ceremony.

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Hardy McCollum, the chairman of the Tuscaloosa County commission, quotes Thomas Jefferson's dictum that the body that governs best is the one closest to the voters.

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Three brothers, played by Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke, and Shia LaBeouf, run a spirited moonshine trade in Franklin County, Virginia, in 1931.

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