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These Are the Safest States Amid the Pandemic
10 Safest, Least Safe
States in US
Oct 26, 2021 11:27 AM CDT

10 Safest, Least Safe States in US

Vermont is No. 1 and Louisiana is last

(Newser) - WalletHub usually considers a wide range of factors in determining the safest states in America, including the number of assaults, mass shootings, and terrorist attacks. This year, with the coronavirus pandemic still in play, it's also considering the percentage of residents who are fully vaccinated. That's one...

Alabama Execution Cancelled at Last Minute
After a Brief Reprieve,
Alabama Inmate Executed
UPDATED
Oct 22, 2021 1:40 AM CDT

After a Brief Reprieve, Alabama Inmate Executed

Willie B. Smith III was convicted of killing Sharma Ruth Johnson

(Newser) - Update: An Alabama man who avoided execution in February was put to death Thursday for the 1991 killing of a woman who was abducted during a robbery and then shot in a cemetery. Willie B. Smith III, 52, received a lethal injection at a prison in southwest Alabama, the AP...

Drive-By Shooting Kills 13-Year-Old in Bedroom

3 are charged in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in death of Kei'lan Allen

(Newser) - Alabama police have charged a third person with capital murder in the killing of a 13-year-old boy who was hit by a bullet that entered his bedroom as he played on an iPad, per the AP . Jaden Zaire Jenkins, 19, was arrested Monday in the death of Kei'lan Allen,...

The Game Was Almost Over. Then, Over the PA: 'Protect Yourselves'

4 injured, one critically, after shooting at high school football game in Mobile, Ala.

(Newser) - "Cover yourselves and protect yourselves." Those are the words that came over the PA Friday night during the fourth quarter of a high school football game in Alabama, as a shooting that took place just outside the stadium left four injured. Police rep Katrina Frazier says that gunfire...

Sheriff Spends 2 Weeks in Jail, Gives It a 5-Star Review

Mike Blakely, convicted on ethics charges, says the food is great

(Newser) - In the tech world, when a company requires workers to use the products it makes, it’s called eating your own dog food. Well, an Alabama sheriff who once ran the Limestone County jail is eating his own jail food. And he loves it, the AP reports. Mike Blakely praised...

Alabama Mom Sues Hospital, Blames Ransomware for Death

Nurses coping with computer outages and missed signs of fetal distress

(Newser) - Nicko Silar was born with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. She suffered brain damage and died nine months later. Her mother, Teiranni Kidd, is suing the hospital, claiming Nicko’s death was preventable. Her own doctor, obstetrician Katelyn Parnell apparently agreed that the baby’s birth injury could...

Alabama's Plan for $400M in COVID Relief Proves Contentious

Jerry Nadler asks Treasury to block plan to build 3 prisons, renovate 4 others

(Newser) - Alabama lawmakers plan to use almost 20% of the state's federal pandemic relief money to build three new prisons and renovate four others. Lawmakers in the state, which has the highest COVID-19 death rate in the country, initiated a special session Monday to discuss the $1.3 billion plan,...

Photographer/Barrel Racer Says State Took His Opossum

Boudoir portrait photographer and social media star is worried about his 'baby'

(Newser) - A barrel racer, boudoir photographer, social media star, and unofficial wildlife rehabber is pleading for the life of his "baby," a 4-year-old opossum with a bone disease. To be clear, that’s all one person. The person is Matt Mathews. The opossum is Donovan. Saying it's a...

In Alabama, 2 Bleak Firsts for the Population

In 2020, more deaths than births in the state, and the most total deaths ever in one year

(Newser) - Dr. Scott Harris, Alabama's chief health officer, recently asked his staff to pore over state mortality records, and his crew came back to him with two sobering numbers. In 2020, for the first time since the early 1900s, Alabama had more deaths than births, Harris announced Wednesday at a...

With COVID Cases Filling ICUs, Heart Patient's Family Has Plea

'Please get vaccinated,' Alabama man's obituary says

(Newser) - Ray DeMonia didn't have COVID-19, but it was still the issue. When the 73-year-old Alabama man had a cardiac event on Aug. 23, he needed a cardiac ICU bed. But the ICU beds in hospitals near him were all taken up by COVID-19 patients, AL.com reports. After calls...

COVID Battle Kills Unvaccinated Nurse, Unborn Baby

Family now wishes Alabama's Haley Richardson had been vaccinated

(Newser) - A widower in Alabama is urging pregnant women to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after losing his wife and unborn daughter to the virus. Haley Richardson, a 32-year-old labor and delivery nurse from Theodore, Ala., fell ill after testing positive for COVID-19 at the end of July when she was nearly...

Doctor to Unvaccinated: Find Another Physican

Alabama's Jason Valentine works in the state with lowest vaccination rate

(Newser) - An Alabama doctor sick of seeing unvaccinated people die of COVID-19 says he will soon turn them away. Dr. Jason Valentine, a physician at Diagnostic and Medical Clinic Infirmary Health in Mobile, this week shared a photo of himself posing next to a sign in his office that explains, as...

Woman Denied Wedding Gown 70 Years Ago Finally Dons One

Martha Tucker of Alabama fulfills decades-old dream, with a little help

(Newser) - When Martha Tucker got married in 1952, it was without the traditional white wedding gown she really wanted. A Black woman living under Jim Crow laws in Birmingham, Ala., Tucker wasn't allowed to try on clothes in white-owned stores—and there were no Black-owned bridal stores in the city,...

Alabama&#39;s GOP Governor Unloads on the Unvaccinated
Alabama's GOP Governor
Unloads on the Unvaccinated
the rundown
Jul 23, 2021 12:22 PM CDT

Alabama's GOP Governor Unloads on the Unvaccinated

'It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks,' says Kay Ivey

(Newser) - Alabama's Republican governor has directed some harsh words toward residents of her own state in regard to COVID vaccinations. Details and related coverage:
  • The blame: "Folks are supposed to have common sense," Kay Ivey told reporters in Birmingham on Thursday, reports Al.com . "It's time
...

Alabama Councilman Who Used N-Word at Meeting Won't Resign

John 'Tommy' Bryant used the racial slur during meeting that was livestreamed

(Newser) - There are calls for an Alabama councilman to step down after he was caught on video using the n-word at a meeting, but John "Tommy" Bryant says he's not going anywhere. The Tarrant city councilmember, who is white, was participating in a Monday night meeting that was being...

8 Kids Killed in Alabama Crash Tied to Same Youth Home
Driver Pulled From Alabama
Crash Lost Own Kids, Nephews
the rundown
Jun 21, 2021 10:40 AM CDT

Driver Pulled From Alabama Crash Lost Own Kids, Nephews

Candice Gully is director of the Tallapoosa Girls Ranch

(Newser) - It was a jarring headline: 10 people killed in a Saturday afternoon car crash on I-65 in Alabama, eight of them tied to a home for abandoned, abused, and neglected children. Now, more details on the accident and the victims are emerging. It happened around 2:30pm in Butler County...

9 Children Killed in Accident After Tropical Storm Hits
Crash During Storm
Kills 9 Children
Jun 20, 2021 11:40 AM CDT

Crash During Storm Kills 9 Children

Alabama's death toll since Tropical Storm Claudette hit reaches 12

(Newser) - Tropical Depression Claudette claimed 12 lives in Alabama as the storm swept across the southeastern US, causing flash flooding and spurring tornadoes that destroyed dozens of homes. Nine children and an adult were killed Saturday in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 65, the AP reports. Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock...

Cops: Gunman Dead After Killing 2 at Fire Hydrant Plant

4 killed, 4 injured in Chicago shooting

(Newser) - A worker wielding a handgun fatally shot two people and wounded two others at an Alabama fire hydrant factory early Tuesday before killing himself, police said. The shooting—which happened about 2:30am at a Mueller Co. plant in Albertville—adds to a slew of homicides around the country. Several...

Segregationist Governor Didn&#39;t Protect Freedom Riders
Governor Didn't Keep
Mob From Freedom Riders
obituary
Jun 5, 2021 5:25 PM CDT

Governor Didn't Keep Mob From Freedom Riders

John Patterson later said he shouldn't have trusted local police to stop white mobs in Alabama

(Newser) - Former Alabama Gov. John Patterson, who entered politics as a reformer but was criticized for failing to protect the Freedom Riders from angry white mobs, has died. He was 99. His daughter, Barbara Patterson Scholl, said Patterson died peacefully at home, the AP reports. His involvement with state government spanned...

En Route to Graduation Party, Mom, 3 Kids Killed in Crash

Car plunged into Alabama lake

(Newser) - Mariah Towns, 18, had just graduated from her Alabama high school last week. She, her parents, and two younger siblings were on their way to a graduation party in Atlanta Saturday night when their car plunged into Logan Martin Lake, killing four of the car's five occupants, AL.com...

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