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Report: Black Belt health disparities could worsen with Medicaid cuts in Trump’s big bill
Alabama Daily News
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July 8, 2025
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump signed his tax breaks and spending cuts bill into law, Alabama researchers warned that changes to Medicaid could decimate the health care system in the state’s Black Belt. The Black Belt in Alabama represents...
More Than Half of Intersection Crashes Involve Left Turns. Is It Time To Finally Ban Them?
ZME Science
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July 1, 2025
Research shows left turns at intersections are dangerous and slow traffic. Credit: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). More than 60% of traffic collisions at intersections involve left turns. Some U.S. cities – including San...
Black debutantes continue legacy of resistance, resilience
Triangle Tribune - North Carolina
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Nikita Harris, left, discusses her exhibit with a visitor. University of Alabama Professor Nikita Harris is on a mission to share the history of Black debutantes and cotillions – not as pageantry but as protest. Harris said the Black debutante...
Denmark Tech snubbed in SC budget amid ongoing financial struggles
SC Daily Gazette - South Carolina
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July 14, 2025
Students attending South Carolina’s only historically Black technical college can learn to weld but on equipment that’s 70 years old. The school has talked of growing its cybersecurity degree program, but the computer systems it has for students...
ACTION 8 UPDATE: Two more suspects charged with kidnapping, assault in Montgomery
Alabama News Network
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June 25, 2025
Posted: Jun 25, 2025 12:30 PM CDT Updated: Jun 25, 2025 12:31 PM CDT by WAKA Action 8 News ACTION 8 UPDATE: Two more suspects are under arrest in a kidnapping and assault investigation in Montgomery. According to court documents, 24-year-old...
National Park Service defends the handling of lightning-sparked blaze that destroyed historic lodge
Tri City Record - New Mexico
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July 15, 2025
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — The National Park Service is defending its handling of a lightning-sparked wildfire that destroyed the nearly century-old Grand Canyon Lodge and dozens of historic cabins, saying containment lines had been...
Kentucky Tornadoes and Severe Weather
Jobe Publishing Inc - Kentucky
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July 14, 2025
Brian Neudorff, a Forecaster and Meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS) of Louisville. Photo submitted. Q&A Session with Forecaster and Meteorologist Brian Neudorff By Mary Beth Sallee Jobe Publishing, Inc. Kentucky’s severe weather...
Attorney Ben Crump demands video of Homewood police shooting: ‘You won’t sweep Jabari Peoples under the rug’
AL.com - Alabama
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July 8, 2025
National civil rights attorney Ben Crump has joined to fight for any footage to be released in the killing of a beloved Alabama teen who was shot to death by police in a Homewood city soccer park. Crump, known for his work on cases such as the...
Fatal Realities: A State-by-State Breakdown of What’s Killing Americans Most
Justice News Flash
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July 8, 2025
America’s mortality map reveals a grim truth: what’s most likely to kill you depends heavily on where you live. In a recent deep dive into national death statistics, researcher Scott Vicknair uncovered critical geographic patterns in how disease,...
FL Leads the Way With a High-Tech 911 System That Improves Emergency Response
Fire Engineering
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July 15, 2025
By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press834 words NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — When an emergency happens in Collier County, Florida, the 911 calls go to one of the most high-tech communications centers in the U.S., where callers can send text and video from the...
Stubbs announces reelection campaign for 31st district — ‘We need leaders who will defend our conservative values’
1819 News
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State Rep. Troy Stubbs (R-Wetumpka) announced on Tuesday that he was officially launching his reelection campaign for the Alabama House of Representatives 31st district in 2026. Stubbs was first elected to office in 2022, following a six-year...
Can Trump Mobile really offer an American made phone?
Simm Tester - Texas
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025 If the newly announced Trump Mobile is serious about selling an American-made smartphone, it might turn to a company with experience doing just that. California-based Purism has developed a smartphone assembled in the US...
New Study Reveals States with Narrowest Gender Gaps in Traffic Fatalities
News Blaze
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July 14, 2025
Dallas, TX – July 2025 A groundbreaking study from The Texas Law Dog, a respected personal injury law firm, is raising awareness about gender disparities in vehicle crash fatalities across the United States. By analyzing nationwide data from 2018...
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The Motley Fool Australia
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July 8, 2025
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Northrop Grumman stakes role in Golden Dome missile shield
SpaceNews
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July 8, 2025
WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman is angling to become a lead contractor for Golden Dome and has moved to centralize coordination of its efforts in Huntsville, Alabama. To continue reading this article: Register now and get 3 free articles every...
Educational bootcamp gets Tuscaloosa students ready for graduation
WBRC 6 News - Alabama
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July 8, 2025
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) - There’s no better time to prepare for graduation than the summertime. That’s the mindset of some students at Tuscaloosa’s Central High School where dozens are participating in a summer bootcamp that completes a new state...
OKC Thunder vs Orlando Magic Prediction and Preview for 2025 NBA Summer League | July 15
Sportskeeda
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July 15, 2025
The OKC Thunder and the Orlando Magic face each other in their third game of the Las Vegas Summer League on Tuesday. The two teams are coming off contrasting results in their last games. The Magic suffered their second consecutive defeat in their...
Curran Funeral Home prioritizes families, community during 50 years of business
Pittsburgh Tribune Review - Pennsylvania
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July 13, 2025
Being a co-owner and funeral director at Curran Funeral Homes is a full-circle experience for James Kunkle, 48, of Vandergrift. Kunkle’s father, Arthur “Art” Kunkle, 70, of Apollo, purchased the funeral homes in 2002 after Gary Curran’s passing....
Engineers 3D Print Model of 500-Year-Old Prosthetic Hand
Industrial Equipment News - Wisconsin
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June 24, 2025
To think about an artificial limb is to think about a person. It's an object of touch and motion made to be used, one that attaches to the body and interacts with its user's world. Historical artifacts of prosthetic limbs are far removed from this...
‘We’re cutting taxes for everyone’: Tuberville and Britt applaud passage of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
1819 News
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Alabama’s Republican U.S. Senators were ecstatic on Tuesday after the body barely passed the spending package pushed by President Donald Trump, bringing it closer to the president’s promise to sign the bill before Friday, the Fourth of July. The...