The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) investigates all cases of COVID-19 and provides contact tracing to reduce the spread of this virus. As with any entity, ADPH expects that COVID-19 cases will occur as has already happened including with one of its own employees in March 2020 within the Bureau of Clinical Laboratories. As a matter of protection of…
The Justice Department is defending Alabama’s requirement to have witnesses sign an absentee ballot. The Justice Department filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit challenging election procedures. They said the witness signature requirement is not a violation of the Voting Rights Act. Alabama absentee voters are currently required to submit photocopies of their photo identification and sign the absentee…
Governor Kay Ivey and Jake Steinfeld, Chairman of the National Foundation for Governors’ Fitness Councils, announced the three Alabama schools that were selected to each receive a state of the art $100,000 DON’T QUIT! Fitness Center. The multi-million dollar DON’T QUIT! Campaign has named L.M. Smith Middle School in Birmingham, Saraland Middle School in Saraland and Highland Home School in…
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to consider the appeal of an Alabama death row inmate convicted in two slayings. The justices rejected a legal challenge by 42-year-old Taurus Carroll without comment on Tuesday. Carroll already was serving time for a 1995 slaying when he was accused of killing a fellow inmate at St. Clair County prison in 2012. He…
Gov. Kay Ivey has awarded nearly $5.1 million to ensure more Alabamians have access to high-speed internet services. Fifteen areas throughout Alabama will be supplied access to broadband services through the latest grants. In March, Gov. Ivey awarded 20 grants totaling $9.5 million to provide broadband access in rural communities and areas without adequate service.  “Broadband has always been a…
Tuskegee sanitation workers protested in front of city hall. The issues are: They say they’re concern about not receiving adequate central pay as a sanitation workers in other areas. They say they’re not getting the proper things that they need to protect themselves from COVID-19. Tuskegee’s Mayor Tony Haygood, says city management has supplied their city workers with the proper…
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross says there definitely will be an NFL season in 2020. In an interview, Ross says the question is whether there will be fans in the stadiums. The NFL has said it expects to play a full schedule beginning Sept. 10, but is preparing contingency plans in case the coronavirus pandemic makes venue changes or games…
J.K. Rowling is publishing a new story called “The Ickabog,” which will be free to read online to help entertain children and families stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. The “Harry Potter” author said Tuesday she wrote the fairy tale for her children as a bedtime story over a decade ago. Set in an imaginary land, it is a…
Attorney General Steve Marshall is advising nursing home residents, as well as their family members, that those residents who are Medicaid recipients should be vigilant against having their federal stimulus payments improperly taken from them. While Medicaid recipients may have to sign over resources, in some circumstances, to nursing homes where they reside, this does NOT apply to current federal…
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP)- Searchers have found two bodies on the Alabama coast near the area that crews have been searching for two Louisiana men who went missing in the surf. The missing swimmers have been identified as 28-year-old Ryan Guy and 22-year-old Darius Robinson, by Orange Beach police. They were last seen near Perdido Pass on Sunday night. They…
