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WASHINGTON, Jan 26, 2024 (AFP) – The southern US state of Alabama on Thursday put to death a convicted murderer using nitrogen gas, the first time the country has used a method that the UN rights chief said may amount to torture. Kenneth Eugene Smith was pronounced dead at 8:25 pm (0225 GMT Friday), according to the state attorney general. “Justice has been served. Tonight, Kenneth Smith was put to death for the heinous act […]
At least four people were killed and more than 20 others injured, mostly teens, in a Saturday night shooting at a birthday party in Alabama, officials said, in the latest spasm of American gun mass violence. Local news reports said the shooting occurred at a Sweet 16 party at a dance studio in Dadeville, a small town northeast of the state capital Montgomery. “There were four lives tragically lost in this incident, and there’s been […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Nine children and an adult were killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on an Alabama highway as heavy storms lashed the southeastern US, authorities said Sunday. Saturday’s crash on an interstate highway near the city of Greenville involved at least 15 vehicles and was “probably” caused by hydroplaning under torrential rains, Butler County coroner Wayne Garlock told AFP. Storm Claudette dumped up to 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A tornado killed one person and left several people critically injured in Alabama, US media said Tuesday. The storm, which hit the town of Fultondale in Jefferson County late Monday, caused “significant damage,” the National Weather Service (NWS) tweeted. One person has died and at least five people have been hospitalized with critical injuries, Fultondale Police Chief D.P. Smith told local news media AL.com. “It looks like a bomb went […]
by Deborah Bloom BEAUREGARD, United States (AFP) — Rescuers uncovered widespread damage in Alabama on Monday caused by two back-to-back tornadoes that ripped across the southern state, with the death toll of 23 expected to rise further. “It looks almost as if someone took a giant knife and scraped the ground,” said Sheriff Jay Jones of Lee County, which borders Georgia. “There are slabs where homes formerly stood, there is debris everywhere, trees are snapped.” […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Japanese automakers Toyota and Mazda announced Wednesday they will build their $1.6 billion joint US manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Alabama. In August, the companies revealed their plans for the factory, which will eventually employ up to 4,000 people. Production at the plant of vehicles for the US market is expected to begin in 2021. They also plan to jointly develop technologies for electric vehicles. “Welcome to sweet home Alabama,” […]
by Chris Lefkow Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Democrat Doug Jones was formally declared the winner of the bitterly contested US Senate race in the southern state of Alabama on Thursday, whittling down the Republican majority in the chamber by a crucial seat. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill certified the results of the December 12 special election and dismissed claims of voter fraud by the campaign of the defeated Republican candidate, Roy […]
MONTGOMERY, United States (AFP) — Democrat Doug Jones scored a stunning upset victory Tuesday in a fiercely contested US Senate race in conservative Alabama, defeating a controversial Donald Trump-backed Republican who failed to overcome damaging accusations of sexual misconduct. The Democratic victory in the most contentious US election of 2017, and in one of the reddest of deep South states, marks a bitter blow to the president, who gave his full endorsement to Republican Roy […]
ALABAMA, United States (Reuters) — Resident of the southern U.S. states of Alabama and Mississippi woke up on Sunday (October 8) to asses the damage left overnight by Hurricane Nate as its winds rapidly weakened. Nate’s maximum sustained winds dropped to 45 miles per hour (70 km per hour) as it moved northeast into Alabama, prompting the National Hurricane Center to end its tropical storm warning for the region east of the Alabama-Florida border on […]
ALABAMA, United States (Reuters) — A tropical depression formerly known as Tropical Storm Cindy caused flooding on Thursday (June 22) in several United States southeastern states, spawned a tornado that injured four people in Alabama, and cut 16 percent of Gulf of Mexico oil production. Cindy was a tropical storm when it made landfall near the Louisiana-Texas border about 3 a.m. CT (0800 GMT) Thursday, then weakened as it traveled north. By afternoon, it was […]
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up a series of wins on Tuesday, as the two presidential front-runners took a step toward capturing their parties’ nominations on the 2016 campaign’s biggest day of state-by-state primary contests. Trump and Clinton turned their sights on each other after their Super Tuesday wins, with Trump promising to “go after” Clinton and the former secretary of state decrying what she called Trump’s divisive rhetoric. U.S. networks […]
(Reuters) — The decomposed bodies of five children aged between 2 and 8 were found stuffed into garbage bags on Tuesday (September 09) near a logging road in Alabama after their father confessed to killing them and led police to the scene, authorities said. Timothy Ray Jones, the father of the children, did not reveal a motive for the killings, which he confessed to authorities in Mississippi, Smith County Sheriff Charlie Crumpton said. The children, whose names have not been released, were […]
