It was a scene you might expect to see straight out of a movie but for one Alabama high school football team, it was the game-winning play.The Hillcrest Patriots were trailing the Wetumpka Indians in Friday night’s home game with under 3 seconds left and the ball on their own 41-yard-line when head coach Sam…
A woman’s kidney donation has saved the life of an Alabama police officer who put her in jail.Phil Campbell officer Terrell Potter had locked up Jocelynn James several times as she battled an opioid addiction.She credits Potter, now retired, with helping her turn her life around. She has been sober for years.Last November she found…
Dr. Matt Hanserd of Athens-Limestone Hospital is used to dealing with death.As a hospitalist, he routinely treats patients at the end of their lives, patients who have multiple health issues to be juggled, often patients who will not survive their stay.It’s not the deaths caused by COVID-19 that bothers him. It’s the sheer number of…
Dr Michael Saag, who survived COVID-19 and now treats patients with the disease, poses for a portrait at his home in Mountain Brook, Ala., on Friday, July 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have increased an average of more than 1,500 a day over the past week in Alabama, bringing the total…
As scientists around the world race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, there's also a scramble to make the millions of vials needed to deliver it. CBS News got an exclusive look inside an Alabama factory that's going all out to meet the vital need. "I don't want to exaggerate. But that's basically what you're telling…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…