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Massive fuel barge explosions force evacuations in Alabama
At least three people were critical condition on Thursday after two fuel barges containing natural gas exploded in Mobile, Alabama. Steve Huffman with Mobile Fire and Rescue said that emergency crews were forced to let the fires burn out on their own due to volatile conditions. A one-mile safety zone…
Civil rights icon moved to tears by Alabama police chief’s apology
Rep. John Lewis (R-GA) was moved to tears on Saturday by an apology from a police chief in Montgomery, Alabama, who said his department utterly failed to protect civil rights marchers as they disembarked from a Grayhound bus into a segregated terminal in 1961. Lewis was one of 21 protesters…
As Triumph cruise ship returns to shore, passengers describe conditions as ‘terrible’
Passengers on a stricken cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico are enduring a nightmare after days without power, waiting hours for sparse meals and relieving themselves in plastic bags, one said Thursday. The ship Triumph, owned by Carnival, suffered an engine room fire Sunday that left it disabled and…
Gunman dead, 3 injured in Alabama hospital shooting
A gunman opened fire on a police officer and two hospital employees at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama early Saturday morning. According to WAFF, News 48, the incident took place at about 4:00 a.m. on the hospital’s fifth floor. Birmingham Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Johnny Williams told WAFF that…
Alabama secessionist blames government for closing topless car wash
An Alabama man who started a petition calling for the White House to allow his state to peacefully secede from the Union says he’s angry that the government forced him to close his topless car wash. Disaffected Americans have created hundreds of “We the People” petitions on the White House…
Elton John cites U.S. discrimination of HIV inmates
WASHINGTON — The US states of Alabama and South Carolina discriminate against HIV-positive prisoners by separating them from others and excluding them from early release programs, singer Elton John said Monday. Infected inmates also face hurdles accessing treatment they need to manage their disease and stop it from progressing, the…
Women immigrants tell of life in fear thanks to ‘Papers, please’ laws
Women immigrants from Arizona, Alabama and Georgia are living in fear after laws like Arizona’s SB 1070 have been put into place. In a conference call sponsored by We Belong Together, a coalition of women’s rights and immigrant rights organizations, Ampardo (women’s last names are withheld to ensure safety), a…
Alabama Republican flees country to pursue sperm donation ‘obsession’
Bill Johnson, a former Republican official who nearly became Alabama’s governor in 2010, has fled the country to focus on his “obsession” with sperm donation, his wife told a New Zealand newspaper on Saturday. Johnson’s wife Kathy told The New Zealand Herald that her husband, who’s fallen off the U.S. political…
Prisoners used to transport Alabama Republican primary votes
During their Republican primary coverage last night, CNN cameras spotted something unusual in Alabama: prison inmates waiting in the wings to help transport voters’ ballots from a truck into a building where elections staff was waiting. “This is something that they’ve done for years, I’m told,” CNN reporter Dana Bash…
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