ROME (AP) – The World Health Organization is declaring that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic. The assessment comes as Italy is weighing even tighter restrictions on daily life and has announced billions in financial relief to cushion economic shocks from the coronavirus. Premier Giuseppe Conte says he will consider requests to toughen an already extraordinary lockdown. The…
Since the first iPhone was released more than 10 years ago, we’ve been told by Apple that using chemicals would damage the screen. With the coronavirus scare, all that’s out the window. Apple has updated the “Cleaning your iPhone” section of its support website to answer the question, “Is it OK to use a disinfectant on my iPhone?” The new…
Today will be a warmer day as highs surge into the upper 70s across South/Central Alabama. We will continue to have some scattered showers across the state, but most of the day looks relatively dry. Later today, we will be watching developments to our northwest as as a complex of stronger storms is expected to develop and move across Northern…
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Montgomery will soon have another charter school. The Montgomery Public School Board approved Life Academy’s contract to become the county’s second charter school. Life Academy will be located at the former Saint Jude Academy. Life Academy Executive Director Kia Debnam says they’ll to open for grades K through 2 in late 2021 and add grades over the next four years….
State School Supt. Dr. Eric Mackey speaking at news conference on coronavirus preparations At a news conference this afternoon, leaders from the Alabama Dept. of Public Health, the Alabama State Board of Education and the Alabama Emergency Management Agency said that Alabama remains free of reported cases of coronavirus. But State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris says that he expects…
Will the coronavirus change the way Americans work? As companies started sending employees home with the instructions to work remotely one company is seeing a surge of new business: Zoom. Zoom is a video company that allows for people to connect online for live streaming face-to-face meetings for up to 100 people. Similar to Skype, Zoom gets high marks from…
Alabama lawmakers might lift a decades old ban on yoga in public schools, though the bill would keep the greeting “namaste” on the forbidden list. A bill by Rep. Jeremy Gray of Opelika would let local school systems decide if they want to teach yoga, poses and stretches. However it would require the moves to have exclusively English names. It…
Company officials say a worker at a Georgia Waffle House tested positive for COVID-19, prompting co-workers to quarantine themselves in their homes. Waffle House said in a statement Tuesday that none of the co-workers from the restaurant in the Canton area have shown any signs of illness. Meanwhile, five more people in Georgia have tested positive for the new coronavirus,…
A convicted murderer did not escape from an Alabama prison despite the corrections system initially reporting that he did. The Alabama Department of Corrections said an escape notice was sent out as a precautionary matter when the inmate was not at his assigned location at St. Clair Correctional Facility. The prison system said an escape notice was sent out while…
