As COVID-19 crisis ebbs, some seeking 9/11-style commission
With more than 600,000 Americans dead of COVID-19 and questions still raging about the origin of the virus and the government's response, a push is underway on Capitol Hill and beyond for a full-blown investigation of the crisis by a national commission like the one that looked into 9/11.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
As COVID-19 crisis ebbs, some seeking 9/11-style commission
With more than 600,000 Americans dead of COVID-19 and questions still raging about the origin of the virus and the government's response, a push is underway on Capitol Hill and beyond for a full-blown investigation of the crisis by a national commission like the one that looked into 9/11.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
As COVID-19 crisis ebbs, some seeking 9/11-style commission
With more than 600,000 Americans dead of COVID-19 and questions still raging about the origin of the virus and the government's response, a push is underway on Capitol Hill and beyond for a full-blown investigation of the crisis by a national commission like the one that looked into 9/11.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
As COVID-19 crisis ebbs, some seeking 9/11-style commission
With more than 600,000 Americans dead of COVID-19 and questions still raging about the origin of the virus and the government's response, a push is underway on Capitol Hill and beyond for a full-blown investigation of the crisis by a national commission like the one that looked into 9/11.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Some in the GOP parrot far-right talk of a coming civil war
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — War-like imagery has begun spreading in Republican circles after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters, with some elected officials and party leaders rejecting pleas to tone down rhetoric calling for a second civil war.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Some in the GOP parrot far-right talk of a coming civil war
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — War-like imagery has begun spreading in Republican circles after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters, with some elected officials and party leaders rejecting pleas to tone down rhetoric calling for a second civil war.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Some in the GOP parrot far-right talk of a coming civil war
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — War-like imagery has begun spreading in Republican circles after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters, with some elected officials and party leaders rejecting pleas to tone down rhetoric calling for a second civil war.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Some in the GOP parrot far-right talk of a coming civil war
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — War-like imagery has begun spreading in Republican circles after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters, with some elected officials and party leaders rejecting pleas to tone down rhetoric calling for a second civil war.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
The unfolding of 'home-grown fascism' in Capitol assault
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under battle flags bearing Donald Trump's name,
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Capitol assault a more sinister attack than first appeared
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under battle flags bearing Donald Trump's name,
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Capitol assault a more sinister attack than first appeared
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under battle flags bearing Donald Trump's name,
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
The unfolding of 'home-grown fascism' in Capitol assault
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under battle flags bearing Donald Trump's name,
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Small-town Alabama resident transformed to protest leader
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — During her final year at Albertville High School in 2015, teachers gave Unique Morgan Dunston a citizenship award and fellow seniors voted her the class clown. Today, she's the target of death threats and jeers on Main Street.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
'Like a bathtub filling up': Alabama is slammed by the virus
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — With its dozen intensive care beds already full, Cullman Regional Medical Center began looking desperately for options as more and more COVID-19 patients showed up.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Christmas in the ICU: Decorations, lights and many tears
OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — A Christmas tree stands outside the intensive care room where a man stricken by COVID-19 lies unconscious, a machine breathing for him. A few feet away, a plastic snowman adorns the door of another patient whose face is barely visible behind ventilator tubes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Alabama governor gets vaccine, calls it 'a safe thing to do'
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey became one of the first governors on Monday to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, bidding to build public confidence in the vaccinations that will have to be widely administered to ease the pandemic.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Alabama governor gets vaccine, calls it 'a safe thing to do'
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey became one of the first governors on Monday to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, bidding to build public confidence in the vaccinations that will have to be widely administered to ease the pandemic.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Alabama loosens licensing rules for doctors as virus rages
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Regulators have loosened rules to make it easier for out-of-state doctors to work in Alabama as the coronavirus pandemic both fills hospital beds and strains medical staff by sickening doctors and nurses, officials said Monday as the first doses of vaccine arrived.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
World War II vet beats COVID-19, marks 104th birthday
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who spent World War II repairing bomb-damaged trains in France recovered from a fight with COVID-19 in time to mark his 104th birthday on Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
World War II vet beats COVID-19, marks 104th birthday
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who spent World War II repairing bomb-damaged trains in France recovered from a fight with COVID-19 in time to mark his 104th birthday on Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Alabama man arrested in 1995 slaying after calling police
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The days without an arrest turned into months and then years after someone killed Christopher Alvin Dailey in 1995. While never closed, the case went cold without new evidence.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
5 states OK measures eradicating racist language, symbols
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama voters reversed themselves from a few years ago and removed racist vestiges of segregation from the state constitution that courts long ago ruled unconstitutional. Rhode Island did a similar a U-turn to eradicate the word “plantations” from the state’s official name.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Voters could remove racist phrases from Alabama Constitution
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama voters once again have the chance to remove the racist language of Jim Crow from the state's constitution, which was approved in 1901 to enshrine white supremacy as state law.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Historically black school renames hall honoring KKK leader
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A historically black university in Alabama has renamed a dormitory that honored a one-time governor who also led a Ku Klux Klan chapter nearly a century ago.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Experts: Cruise ships no place for a coronavirus quarantine
Cruise ships hit by coronavirus outbreaks have quickly found themselves with no ports for thousands of passengers as countries on four continents have quarantined vessels or kept them at sea for days.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Experts: Cruise ships no place for a coronavirus quarantine
Cruise ships hit by coronavirus outbreaks have quickly found themselves with no ports for thousands of passengers as countries on four continents have quarantined vessels or kept them at sea for days.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Editor's words show conflict of 'Mockingbird'
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Chattanooga Muslims mourning, anxious after shootings
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Harper Lee's hometown abuzz about release of second book
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Racial history 'still casts long shadow'
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Teen's disappearance reveals Alabama sex ring
BAY MINETTE, Ala. — By most accounts, 19-year-old Brittney Wood was with uncle Donnie Holland the night of May 30, 2012, the last time anyone saw her. Holland — who was under investigation for horrific sex crimes at the time — died from a bullet within days in what was …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS AGO
Lawsuit: Teen used as bait in school sex sting
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Army scrapping chemical weapons incinerators
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Every little bit helps
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Finally - a fluid festival
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Boycott idles Alabama poultry industry
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. - Along Main Street in this small Alabama town, the Mexican restaurant was closed, lights were out at a Hispanic-owned grocery store and even a bank catering to Spanish speakers was dark. Nearby, the usual hum of a chicken processing plant was silent.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Lee drenches Gulf Coast, could cause inland floods
SAUCIER, Miss. - Tropical Storm Lee dumped more than a foot of rain in New Orleans and spun off tornadoes elsewhere Sunday as its center came ashore in a slow crawl north that raised fears of inland flash flooding in the Deep South and beyond.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Lab lost key evidence in 'praying mom' case
AUBURN, Ala. - When Kay Burdette's 17-year-old son became sick with flu-like symptoms, the faithful mother chose the same prescription she has used for years: prayer.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Snowbirds head to the Gulf
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. - For all the oil spill claims and cleanup work by BP, retirees from the North may be the best survival bet for some Gulf Coast resort towns this winter.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
First relief well could be complete by end of July
THEODORE, Ala. - BP and the federal government are offering a ray of hope in a summer of setbacks for crews trying to stop the gulf oil spill: The first of two relief wells could be done by the end of this month, weeks ahead of schedule.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
