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ALSDE Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19

An Alabama State Department of Education employee has tested positive for COVID-19. Director of Communications Dr. Michael Sibley confirmed to Alabama News Network that they were notified Monday night about the case. While the employee worked on the 5th floor at the department, Dr. Sibley says the entire 5th floor has not been closed. Only the section that the person…

Ex-Verizon Worker Accused of Selling Customer Phone Records

Federal prosecutors in Alabama say a former Verizon Wireless technician used the company’s computers to obtain customers’ private call records – plus data showing where customers’ phones were – and sold them to an unnamed private investigator. Newly filed court records accuse Daniel Eugene Traeger of selling the confidential information for more than four years, from 2009 to 2014. Traeger…