
Hannah Denham
Investigative Reporter at AL.com
Investigative reporter @aldotcom covering money, business, power | [email protected] | previously @washingtonpost @TB_Times @WBJOnline | she/her 🌈
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3 days ago |
al.com | Hannah Denham
A Florida couple and their adult daughter died in a crash in Houston County on Saturday when their SUV crossed the interstate and collided with an 18-wheeler, the county’s coroner confirmed. Coroner Robert Byrd identified the three family members as David Waller and Diane Waller of Istachatta, Fla., and their daughter, Carrie Stone of Inverness, Fla. He said he could not confirm their ages.
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3 days ago |
al.com | Hannah Denham
A man is dead after Mobile police say another man potentially shot him during a “domestic-related” homicide on Sunday morning. On Sunday around 8:05 a.m., police officers were notified about a possible shooting by a man barricaded inside a home on the 3900 block of Driftwood Drive East, per a Mobile Police Department statement. Officers activated a SWAT response. When they entered the home, they found a man was dead, and took the subject into custody.
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3 days ago |
al.com | Hannah Denham
James Spann said he’s shortening the name for the Gulf of America – formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico until President Donald Trump pushed for the new name on his first day back in office. “Most of us around here just call it ‘the Gulf,’” Spann, the chief meteorologist for ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday. “Unfortunately, if we go beyond that it has now become political. “I guarantee you I will slip from time to time and call it the ‘Gulf of Mexico,’” he added.
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3 days ago |
al.com | Hannah Denham
Award-winning actor S. Epatha Merkerson is donating $1 million to Talladega College, per media reports. The actor was the keynote speaker for Alabama’s oldest private, historically Black college’s 150th commencement, held on May 4. Rica Lewis-Payton, chair of Talladega’s Board of Trustees, said Merkerson’s gift “will have a profound impact” on the college in a statement to CBS 42.
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1 week ago |
al.com | Hannah Denham
Women who sued Grandview Medical Center, alleging they were sexually assaulted by a man working in the psychiatric unit, are again asking a judge to hold the Birmingham hospital in contempt. Lawyers for the women have been trying for months to get the hospital to turn over more records related to the investigation and firing of Cornell Richards, who was a behavioral health technician at Grandview in 2022, per court records.
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NEW: Women who sued a Birmingham hospital, alleging they were sexually assaulted by a man working in the psychiatric unit, are again asking a judge to hold the hospital in contempt. Here's the latest: https://t.co/aIA4vGpVaN

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