Tag Archives: Alabama

The Birmingham News reports: The Alabama Legislature Thursday night gave final approval to a bill requiring parental consent for minors to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. The bill goes to Gov. Kay Ivey [photo], who could sign it into law. The bill would create an exception to the state law that allows minors 14 and older to consent to medical treatment. …

The Washington Post reports: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) ordered state agencies to resist the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandates on Monday, pledging to fight the White House in court. In her executive order, she says state officials should not penalize any business or individual for ignoring federal vaccine mandates. It also says that even when compelled to enforce federal …

CNN reports: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law Friday a number of prison infrastructure bills that will use coronavirus relief funds to build new prisons in the state, calling it a “pivotal moment for the trajectory of our state’s criminal justice system.” Ivey, a Republican, had convened a special session of the Alabama Legislature to discuss how to fix …

The Washington Post reports: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) is hitting back after criticism over plans to use coronavirus pandemic relief funds provided by the federal government to finance the construction of new prisons in the Southern state. “The Democrat-controlled federal government has never had an issue with throwing trillions of dollars toward their ideological pet projects,” Ivey said in …

The Birmingham News reports: Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is disputing claims cybercriminals “flipped” 100,000 votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. The claims came from Mike Lindell, the founder of MyPillow and an adviser to former president Trump. He visited Merrill and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey last week, saying he planned to run …

The Birmingham News reports: MyPillow founder and Donald Trump adviser Mike Lindell plans to conduct “tests” on Alabama’s voter rolls after purchasing the list, said Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, who along with Gov. Kay Ivey met with Lindell on Friday. Lindell is going to comb through the list of Alabama voters to determine whether the state has any …

The Daily Beast reports: A teenage city council member in Morgan County, Alabama, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday after railing against mask mandates said he’s now battling coronavirus-related pneumonia in the hospital. “I am still shallow in breathing but my oxygen remains okay for now,” Decatur City Councilman Hunter Pepper, 19, wrote on Facebook Thursday. He received a …

The Birmingham News reports: An advisory panel for a voter-approved effort to make changes to the 120-year-old Alabama Constitution is studying three sections that had racist language or racist intent. The Committee on the Recompilation of the Constitution held a public hearing at the State House on Friday. The committee did not make recommendations because it is still receiving public …

Yahoo News reports: Former President Donald Trump was booed by his supporters at a “Save America” rally in Cullman, Alabama, on Saturday night after he suggested that they get vaccinated against COVID-19. “I believe totally in your freedoms, I do, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do,” Trump said to the crowd. “But I recommend that you take …

The Montgomery Advertiser reports: A federal team of health care workers is deploying to a south Alabama hospital amid an ongoing “crush” of COVID-19 patients threatening to overwhelm the state’s health system. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will send a 13-person team to South Baldwin Regional Medical Center in Foley, Alabama. The director of the team is …

The Hill reports: Cullman, Ala., on Thursday declared a COVID-19-related state of emergency ahead of a scheduled Alabama GOP rally featuring former President Trump on Saturday as Alabama struggles with a surge in new infections and a shortage of hospital beds. The state of emergency declaration allows the city to provide additional resources for the rally, a request that was …

The Birmingham News reports: According to the Alabama Hospital Association, there were negative 29 intensive care beds available in the state on Wednesday night as the strain caused by the latest COVID surge continues. Those figures mean there are 29 more patients in need of ICU beds than the total available statewide (1,557). Alabama Hospital Association Deputy Director Danne Howard …

The Birmingham News reports: An Alabama lawmaker says he will propose legislation to prohibit school systems from mandating that students in K-12 public schools wear masks to guard against the spread of COVID-19. Rep. Andrew Sorrell, R-Muscle Shoals, said it should be up to parents whether their children wear masks at school. He said he is sponsoring the bill at …

“Let’s be crystal clear about this issue. And media, I want you to start reporting the facts. The new cases of COVID are because of unvaccinated folks. Almost 100% of the new hospitalizations are with unvaccinated folks. “And the deaths are certainly occurring with the unvaccinated folks. These folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain. “I don’t know, …

The Alabama Reporter reports: The conservative Alabama Center for Law and Liberty on Monday sent a letter on behalf of itself and six allied organizations urging that the Montgomery City Council to reject a proposed ordinance that they say would require Christians to violate their religious beliefs or face fines under certain circumstances. The proposed ordinance would make sexual orientation …

The Birmingham News reports: “I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,” wrote Dr. Brytney Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m …

Axios reports: The commanding general of Fort Rucker has announced that the Alabama military base will require service members not wearing face masks “to show proof of vaccination” while on duty to combat rising COVID-19 cases. Why it matters: The order, issued Wednesday, makes Fort Rucker the “first military base in the continental” U.S. to permit leaders to “check the …

The Birmingham News reports: The Alabama Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a former youth pastor sentenced to more than 1,000 years in prison for sex crimes against young boys. Paul Edward “Acton” Bowen is serving time in Kilby Correctional Facility where he was admitted in December 2019 after he entered guilty pleas in Etowah County to …

Alabama News Network reports: Mobile Police are investigating after about two dozen gunshots were fired into the house of State Sen. Vivian Davis Figures (D-Mobile), who wasn’t home at the time. Mobile police say the shooting happened around 5 a.m. Thursday. Mobile police spokesman Lt. Christopher Levy says no one was home and no injuries reported. Levy says the incident …

Mobile’s NBC News affiliate reports: NBC 15 News has learned an event featuring former President Donald Trump as the keynote speaker that was being planned for this Saturday at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park was nixed after park commissioners became wary. “After the request was made, then there was contact with the Republican Party, they contacted us and then …