Thirty-one states will implement or strengthen their road safety rules beginning on June 5, 2025. Here, we’re referring to laws that forbid using a cell phone while operating a motor vehicle, even while you’re stopped at a stop sign. The goal of penalties and the potential for license points is to prevent distracted driving, which…
Republican representatives from blue states blasted a Senate proposal to reduce the state and local tax deduction (SALT) maximum from the $40,000 level negotiated by the House to $10,000 and perhaps reduce Medicaid in order to fund President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” claiming it would be “dead on arrival.” A leaked draft of the Senate…
Washington is seeking to prohibit police from performing traffic stops for nonmoving infractions in response to concerns about the stops. These include infractions like defective headlights or expired tabs. You might still be stopped for a crime, though, including failing to buckle up or leaving your license plate on your car. Officers would send you…
Authorities are describing the slashing of two New York City court officers as a “targeted attack.” Al Baker, a spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration, informed Fox News that it took place Monday morning in the criminal court facility in Lower Manhattan. The entire encounter is captured on shocking footage. “Preliminary information indicated…
According to a study released Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the House Republicans’ comprehensive domestic policy bill’s planned Medicaid cuts may result in an estimated 7.6 million Americans losing their health insurance, which would result in thousands of avoidable deaths. According to the report, the changes may result in 380,270 women skipping a…
As a response to what their union considers to be an unlawful plot to terminate existing contracts, healthcare workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland want to begin a strike that will last for an indefinite period of time on Wednesday. There are approximately 1,300 workers who are represented by the National Union of Healthcare…
Federal authorities are offering a reward of up to $10,000 for the arrest of each of the two detainees who vanished from an immigration detention facility in New Jersey last week, and they are still searching for them on Monday. Four people in all first broke out of ICE’s Delaney Hall facility in Newark, where…
By ANDREW SIMONSON | Sports Editor BIRMINGHAM – One of Alabaster’s own earned recognition as one of the best players in all of college baseball as Logan Braunschweig received finalist honors for the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings Gold Glove Team. The ABCA and Rawlings announced the finalists on Monday, Jun 16, and Braunschweig was one…
By ANDREW SIMONSON | Sports Editor It’s not hyperbole to say that the Shelby County Coach of the Year award could’ve gone to any coach in the county. Chelsea’s Lee Miller capitalized on one of the most talented teams in his decades-long career to reach the school’s first Final Four since 2011. Briarwood’s Mike Bautista…
FROM STAFF REPORTS HOOVER – Melvin Crumble II, age 36 of Fairfield, has been identified as the suspect in the Hoover shooting that led to the injury of an employee and the death of an unborn child. Crumble is currently booked into the Hoover jail on charges of manslaughter and second-degree assault in connection to…
