Alabama
In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place
Hale County, Ala., holds a special position in American visual culture. This is where Walker Evans made his photographs of white sharecropper families for “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” with James Agee’s text, a core document of Depression-era poverty. It is where William Christenberry, who grew up in nearby Tuscaloosa with roots in the […]
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At Least 4 Players on Alabama’s ’60s Football Teams Had CTE
The repercussions of C.T.E., which cannot be definitively diagnosed until after a person’s death but is routinely found in football players when researchers are allowed to conduct post-mortem examinations, can be jarringly conspicuous: episodes of confusion and memory loss, spasms of anger and argument and steep declines in communication and decision-making skills. “You just see […]
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Studies Probe Adenovirus Link to Childhood Hepatitis Cases
For months, scientists around the world have been investigating cases of severe, unexplained hepatitis, or liver inflammation, in previously healthy children. At least 920 probable cases have been detected in 33 countries since October, according to the World Health Organization. About 5 percent have required liver transplants, and 18 deaths have been reported. So far, […]
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How to Help Women if You’re Mad About Roe v. Wade
In February 2021, I uprooted my husband, three children and two cats from our longtime home to move across the country to a house we had only seen on FaceTime, in a city we only knew from college football. I did this because I believe that everyone who supports abortion rights must do what they’re […]
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They Insisted the 2020 Election Was Tainted. Their 2022 Primary Wins? Not So Much.
This spring, when Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama was fighting to win over conservatives in his campaign for Senate, he ran a television ad that boasted, “On Jan. 6, I proudly stood with President Trump in the fight against voter fraud.” But when Mr. Brooks placed second in Alabama’s Republican primary last week, leaving him […]
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Scorned by Trump, Mo Brooks Rises in Alabama Senate Race
In politics, “the only thing that matters is how much money you’ve got and how low you’re willing to go,” he said with disgust on Friday. “It’s very, very disturbing. I hope it will backfire.” Mr. Brooks’s time in the barrel took place in the spring. A super PAC favoring Ms. Britt, Alabama’s Future, dredged […]
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Alabama Officer Vicky White Dies and Escapee Is Caught, Officials Say
A national manhunt for a former corrections officer and the Alabama inmate she helped to escape last month ended Monday after a police pursuit resulted in a crash in Indiana, the authorities said. The former officer fatally shot herself, and the inmate surrendered, they said. The former officer, Vicky White, had been on the run […]
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Jail Officer and Murder Suspect Missing After Heading to ‘Bogus’ Appointment
Alabama and federal authorities are searching for a corrections officer and a murder suspect who were last seen on Friday leaving the jail for what should have been a three-minute drive to the county courthouse for an appointment that turned out not to exist, officials said. The officer, Vicky White, who is the assistant director […]
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C.D.C. Issues Alert Over Cluster of Hepatitis Cases in Children
A cluster of severe hepatitis cases in Alabama children prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a nationwide health alert on Thursday, urging doctors and health officials to keep an eye out for, and report, any similar cases. Officials are investigating the possibility that an adenovirus, one of a group of common […]
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