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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...
Thousands across central Alabama spend Memorial Day without power
CALERA, Ala. (WIAT) — As of Monday night, just over 15,000 Alabama Power customers remain without electricity after the South was hit with severe storms. Calera residents Karman and Lauriann Loveless say the electricity at their home went out early Monday morning. “The storm itself woke me up and then it went click and that […]
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.
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