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Uvalde police chief didn’t know about 911 calls from students, Texas official says
UVALDE, Texas — The commander overseeing police during a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was not informed of panicked 911 calls coming from students trapped inside and it’s unclear who at the scene was aware of the calls as the massacre unfolded, a Texas state senator said Thursday. Sen. Roland Gutierrez said it was a “system failure” that school district police Chief Pete Arredondo received no word of the pleas for help from people inside Robb Elementary School on May 24.
Wreck of last U.S. slave ship mostly intact on coast, researchers say
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast since it was scuttled in 1860, have made the surprising discovery that most of the wooden schooner remains intact, including the pen that was used to imprison African captives during the brutal journey across the Atlantic Ocean.
Call to remove Black pastors brings agony to Arbery’s town
Race was always going to be at the forefront of the trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery, 25-year-old Black man, in a coastal Georgia neighborhood. But a defense attorney’s quickly rejected call to kick out Black pastors, including Jesse Jackson, from the Glynn County courtroom intensified frustrations and added fresh agony to a lingering wound that many in the community had hoped the trial could start healing.
Ida roars ashore; NOLA without power
NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida knocked out power to the entire city of New Orleans, hours after blasting ashore as one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the U.S., New Orleans government officials said. The city’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness said on Twitter that energy company Entergy confirmed that New Orleans has no power, and that the only power in the city was coming from generators.
US surgeon general worries over increasing COVID-19 cases nationwide
By JAY REEVES Associated Press | Jul 18, 2021 at 2:56 PM The U.S. surgeon general said Sunday that he’s concerned about what lies ahead with cases of COVID-19 increasing in every state, millions still unvaccinated and a highly contagious virus variant spreading rapidly.
'I did three funerals in three weeks': Some dying of COVID-19 while waiting turn for vaccine
President Biden remarks on 100M shots administered ahead of schedule President Joe Biden gave his remarks on the 100 million COVID-19 vaccine shots administered ahead of schedule, but stressed we still have a long way to go. After months of hoping to receive a COVID-19 immunization and then weeks of fighting the illness after one never came, Air Force veteran Diane Drewes was down to her last few breaths at a hospice center in Ohio when the phone rang.
'I did three funerals in three weeks': Some dying of COVID-19 while waiting turn for vaccine
President Biden remarks on 100M shots administered ahead of schedule President Joe Biden gave his remarks on the 100 million COVID-19 vaccine shots administered ahead of schedule, but stressed we still have a long way to go. After months of hoping to receive a COVID-19 immunization and then weeks of fighting the illness after one never came, Air Force veteran Diane Drewes was down to her last few breaths at a hospice center in Ohio when the phone rang.
Some dying of COVID-19 while awaiting vaccine
SHE COULD SAVE LIVES. I DIDN’T THINK IT WAS REAL FOR A LONG TIME. UNTIL MARCH 4TH WHEN HE LEFT ME THERE’S AN EMPTINESS SUSAN RICKETT FEELS ON THE FRONT PORCH OF HER BROWN COUNTY HOME. WE HAD FOUR CHILDREN. WE HAD SIX GRANDCHILDREN. AND WE HAVE TWO GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. AND THREE PUPPY DOGS HER HUSBAND OF 46 YEARS 74 YEAR OLD BOBBY RICKETT WAS DIAGNOSED WITH COVID-19 ON FEBRUARY 23RD HOSPITALIZED AND DIED DAYS LATER TWO TIMES TWICE.
7-year-old girl raises money for her brain surgery with lemonade stand. This is not a heartwarming story, critics say.
HOMEWOOD, ALA. — Liza Scott, 7, started a lemonade stand at her mom’s bakery last summer so she could buy some frills like toys and sequined high-heel shoes. The bouncy little girl is still in business months later, yet the money is going toward something entirely different: surgery on her brain. Last month, doctors determined a series of seizures that Liza began suffering were caused by cerebral malformations that needed repair, said her mother, Elizabeth Scott.
Coronavirus cases drop at U.S. homes for elderly and infirm
By Jay Reeves BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)—Coronavirus cases have dropped at U.S. nursing homes and other long-term care facilities over the past few weeks, offering a glimmer of hope that health officials attribute to the start of vaccinations, an easing of the post-holiday surge and better prevention, among other reasons.
Coronavirus cases drop at U.S. homes for elderly and infirm
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Coronavirus cases have dropped at U.S. nursing homes and other long-term care facilities over the past few weeks, offering a glimmer of hope that health officials attribute to the start of vaccinations, an easing of the post-holiday surge and better prevention, among other reasons.
Small-town Alabama girl becomes protest leader
During her final year at Albertville High School in 2015, teachers gave Unique Morgan Dunston a citizenship award and fellow seniors voted her the class clown. Today, she’s the target of death threats and jeers on Main Street. The change is because of what Dunston does now, not who she was years ago.
Christmas in the ICU: Decorations, lights, tears
Christmas tree stands outside the intensive care room where a man stricken by COVID-19 lies unconscious, a machine breathing for him. A few feet away, a plastic snowman adorns the door of another patient whose face is barely visible behind ventilator tubes. A nurse’s station is decorated for Christmas in the intensive care unit at an Alabama hospital.
As virus surges in some states, emergency rooms swamped
A fast-rising tide of new coronavirus cases is flooding emergency rooms in parts of the United States, with some patients moved into hallways and nurses working extra shifts to keep up with the surge. Patients struggling to breathe are being placed on ventilators in emergency wards since intensive care units are full, officials said, and the near-constant care they require is overtaxing workers who also are treating more typical ER cases like chest pains, infections, and fractures.
Wrangling over virus relief persists despite high stakes
MIAMI (AP) — The desperate race to corral the coronavirus pandemic took on even greater urgency Monday as a burgeoning economic crisis collided with political turmoil. Even as the latest experimental vaccine appeared to show promise, politicians in Washington seemed far apart in finding a way to bring financial relief to Americans.
As COVID-19 surges in some U.S. states, emergency rooms swamped
A fast-rising tide of new coronavirus cases is flooding emergency rooms in parts of the United States, with some patients moved into hallways and nurses working extra shifts to keep up with the surge. Patients struggling to breathe are being placed on ventilators in emergency wards since intensive care units are full, officials say, and the near-constant care they require is overtaxing workers who also are treating more typical ER cases like chest pains, infections, and fractures.
Hurricane Michael wipes out Mexico Beach, Florida, in 'apocalyptic' assault
The small Gulf Coast community of Mexico Beach was known as a slice of Old Florida. Now it lies in splinters. Hit head-on by Hurricane Michael, numerous homes in this resort town of about 1,190 people were shattered or ripped from their foundations. Boats were tossed like toys. The streets closest to the water looked as if a bomb had gone off. What the 9-foot storm surge didn't destroy, the 155 mph winds finished off.
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