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When will your power be back on? Parts of Birmingham area might be in the dark for a while
Storms that swept Alabama late Sunday night into early Monday morning left more than 137,000 Alabama Power customers in the dark. As of about 1 p.m. Tuesday, about 5,000 people remain without power, according to the Alabama Power outage map. The outage map states that for many of those no...
Storm Damage Leaves Many Without Power
Some West Alabama residents sleeping in for Memorial Day this morning got a rude awakening. Just over 20,000 customers were left without power as early morning severe thunderstorms toppled trees and power lines onto some homes and blocked numerous roadways. One person died in Jefferson County when a tree fell on an apartment.
UAB offers free colonoscopies for people with low-incomes
Patients with low-incomes in Jefferson County can get free screenings for colorectal cancer at UAB through September of 2024. The effort is the result of a state grant from the Alabama Department of Public Health which awarded $120,000 to two professors at the school who are working to screen for cancer and reduce health disparities in colorectal cancer. The effort is focused on low-income and underinsured residents who are patients of federally qualified health centers.
HEMSI slammed with $15 million judgement in wrongful death suit
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A Limestone County grand jury this week found that Huntsville Emergency Medical Services, Inc., commonly known as HEMSI, and two of its ambulance operators were negligent in the care of a patient who later died after their transport from Huntsville Hospital to UAB Hospital. The wife of Robert Owen, who died May 4, 2019, alleged in her lawsuit that the actions of Jacob Steele and Calvin Hui added undue distress to Owen and played a role in his death.
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