A man fired shots during an altercation at an Alabama shopping mall, killing an 8-year-old boy and wounding three others, including a young girl.It happened Friday in the middle of the afternoon at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, a Birmingham suburb, police said.The boy who died was Royta Giles, a Jonesboro Elementary School student on his…
Alabama, which has been hit hard by the recent surge of coronavirus cases, is running out of available intensive care unit beds.Hospitals in the more densely populated areas of Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Birmingham have begun to transfer critical care patients from hospital to hospital because of the shortage of beds, according to a Federal Emergency Management…
In this Friday, June 12, 2020 file photo, a nurse uses a swab to perform a coronavirus test.AP Photo/Rick BowmerFor the first time since tracking began, the number of coronavirus cases in Alabama grew by more than 1,000 in a day.The Alabama Department of Public Health’s June 14 10 a.m. numbers show 25,235 cases in…
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…