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americafuneral10-blog · 5 years

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Alabama’s State Mortuary Operations Response Team Helps Out in Latest Disaster

Tornadoes are commonplace here in Alabama. Since 2008 we’ve averaged 60 tornadoes each year–that’s up significantly from the 50-year average of 38. But that doesn’t mean we don’t take them seriously.

We know that on April 3 and 4, 1974, 86 people died in the Super Outbreak of twisters that swept across north Alabama (if we forget, there’s a historical marker on the highway in Moulton to remind us).

April 27, 2011 is another date we immediately recognize. That’s the day 62 tornadoes ravaged the state, including an EF-5 that devastated multiple counties located just south of my hometown. The twisted trees and debris that precisely illustrated the tornadoes’ paths through Moulton, Phil Campbell, Hamilton, and Tuscaloosa have been replaced by an equally telling swath of new construction. One of my daughter’s friends, a student at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, was one of the 240 souls we lost that day.

In comparison, the death toll from Sunday’s storm–23–seems small, but the tornado that tore through Lee County was the deadliest one to hit the US since 2013. Understandably, dealing with the aftermath of such a tragedy would be overwhelming for most coroners’ offices; it’s certainly the case for Lee County Coroner Bill Harris’ four-person team.

Helping hands

Fortunately, this is exactly the situation for which the Alabama State Mortuary Operations Response Team, or SMORT, has prepared. SMORT was activated on Sunday night, and 12 of the organization’s approximately 50 volunteers from across Alabama responded to the call. The team, led by Doug Williams, owner of Cullman Heritage Funeral Home in Cullman County, are working from their temporary home base at a middle school in Beauregard, the hardest-hit community in the county.

The primary goal for Williams and his team of licensed funeral directors, embalmers, coroners, and emergency medical personnel is to assist in the identification of bodies.

“This time we weren’t involved in recovery,” Williams told a Cullman newspaper on Wednesday. “They were handling that with the local fire department and things like that. They’re still out cutting trees and going through neighborhoods, but they feel pretty much like they’ve found everybody.”

SMORT is organized under the auspices of the Alabama Department of Public Health and the Emergency Management Agency, and since its organization in Cullman County in 2005, has been funded largely by grants of around $10,000 per year. The funding allows the organization to purchase and maintain equipment including three portable refrigerated trailers to serve as rolling mortuaries, power tools, protective clothing, and their newest piece of “high-tech gadgetry, a camera-fitted drone. The equipment is tested at least annually during training events that also include classroom time to update volunteers on policies and procedures as well as simulated grid search exercises.

One of a kind

Alabama’s SMORT is one of the few such units in the United States, and could easily serve as a model for similar efforts in other states. The dedicated volunteers give up their personal time to participate in training and actual emergency response, with no expectation of compensation.

“When we came back from Rainsville [Alabama], where they had a terrible tornado in 2011, I realized what we do what we do,” retired Birmingham funeral worker Ray Bischoff told The Cullman Times in 2017. “When something like that happens, their minds aren’t going to be on something like this.”

Two days after the tornado, two corporations announced their intentions to pay for funeral services for all 23 victims. One of these has been identified as the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, and the other remains anonymous.

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seemabtechno · 6 years

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Newspapers from Alabama : Here is a list of the dominant free online newspapers, Magazines, news websites, online television and radio channels from Alabama having access to the current news on local and international affairs.

· Advertiser Gleam

· Al

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· Birmingham News

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· Call News

· Choctaw Sun-Advocate

· Clanton Advertiser

· Clarke County Democrat

· Clayton Record

· Cleburne News

· Courier Journal

· Crimson White

· Cullman Times

· CullmanSense

· Daily Home

· Daily Mountain Eagle

· Daily Sentinel

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· Demopolis Times

· Dothan Eagle

· Elba Clipper

· Enterprise Ledger

· Flor Ala

· Franklin County Times

· Gadsden Messenger

· Gadsden Times

· Global Catholic Network

· Government News

· Greene County Democrat

· Greenville Advocate

· Hartselle Enquirer (Hartselle)

· Jacksonville News

· Lagniappe

· Latino

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· Ledger-Enquirer

· Lowndes Signal

· Madison Record

· Messenger

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· Montgomery Advertiser

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· New York Times Alabama

· News Courier

· North Jefferson News

· Opelika Auburn News

· Orange Beach

· Over the Mountain Journal

· Pickens County Herald

· Planet Weekly

· Post

· Samford Crimson

· Sand Mountain Reporter

· Selma Times Journal

· Shelby County Reporter

· South Alabamian

· Southeast Sun

· Speakin' Out News

· Sumter County Record Journal

· The Arab Tribune

· The Auburn Plainsman

· The Corner

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· The Harbinger

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· The Thomasville Times

· The Tuskegee News

· The Wetumpka Herald

· Times Daily

· Times Journal

· Times Record

· Troy Messenger

· Tuscaloosa News

· Valley Times-News

· Washington County News

· Wvtm 13

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axsomreport · 6 years

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Top 10 Daily Alabama Newspapers by Circulation

1. The Birmingham News

http://www.al.com/birmingham/ Launched in 1888, it’s the largest newspaper in Alabama.

2. Mobile Press-Register

http://www.al.com/mobile/ The Press-Register is a thrice-weekly newspaper serving the southwest Alabama counties of Mobile and Baldwin.

3. The Huntsville Times

http://www.al.com/huntsville/ A thrice-weekly newspaper serving Huntsville and the surrounding areas of north Alabama’s Tennessee Valley region.

4. The Tuscaloosa News

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/ The Tuscaloosa News is your source for news and information in West Alabama.

5. Montgomery Advertiser

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/ Central Alabama’s leading news source.

6. The Dothan Eagle

http://www.dothaneagle.com Dothan’s News Source.

7. The Times Daily

http://www.timesdaily.com/ The leading source for news and information in the Shoals, Alabama.

8. The Decatur Daily

http://www.decaturdaily.com/ The latest news from Decatur, Alabama. Serving all of Morgan, Limestone, and Lawrence counties.

9. The Anniston Star

http://www.annistonstar.com/ A daily newspaper serving East Alabama with news, sports, opinion, and entertainment, plus classifieds, real estate, and local features.

10. The Gadsden Times

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/ For all the news and information about Gadsden and Etowah County.

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Post

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Washington County News

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Clanton Advertiser

Clayton Record

Shelby County Reporter

Community Shopper's Guide

Cullman Sense

Cullman Times

Dadeville Record

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Decatur Daily

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Demopolis Times

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Eclectic Observer

Elba Clipper

Enterprise Ledger

Southeast Alabama Gazette

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Eufaula Tribune

Greene County Democrat

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Fairhope Times

Times Record

Florala News

Courier Journal

Flor Ala

Times Daily

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Lowndes Signal

Fort Payne Times Journal

Army Flier

Gadsden Metro

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Messenger

North Jefferson News

Geneva County Reaper

Choctaw Sun Advocate

Greenville Advocate

Greenville Standard

Clarke County Democrat

Islander

Advertiser Gleam

Lakeside Post

Northwest Alabamian

49 County News

Journal Record

Hartford News Herald

Hartselle Enquirer

Headland Voice

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Homewood Star

Hoover Sun

Breaking Huntsville News

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Marshall Star

Redstone Rocket

Speakin' Out News

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Jacksonville News

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Daily Mountain Eagle

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LaFayette Sun

Valley Times News

Democrat Reporter

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Sumter County Record Journal

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Madison County Record

Madison Pike

Madison Weekly News

Millbrook Independent

Catholic Week

Lagniappe

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Vanguard

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Monroe Journal

Alabama Gazette

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Montgomery Advertiser

River Region Living

WAKA

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Moulton Advertiser

Moundville Times

Village Living

Blount Countian

Opelika Auburn News

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OBA

Pelham Reporter

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Piedmont Journal

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Prattville Progress

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Randolph Leader

Gulf Coast News Today

Independent

Coosa County News

Franklin County Times

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Samson Ledger

Clarion

Daily Sentinel

Selma Times Journal

Lamar County Leader

Daily Home

Tallassee Tribune

Thomasville Times

Tropolitan

Troy Messenger

Trussville News

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Crimson White

Planet Weekly

Tuscaloosa Magazine

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WVUA

Tuskegee News

Union Springs Herald

Lamar Democrat and Sulligent

News

Over the Mountain Journal

Vestavia Voice

Wetumpka Herald

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love-phenomenal-men-blog · 6 years

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CHANNING MATTHEW TATUM (born April 26, 1980) age 37 in Cullman, Alabama, U.S. He is married to Jenna Dewi & the son of Kay Faust, an airline worker, & Glenn Tatum, who worked in construction. He has a sister named Paige. His family moved to the Pasca-goula, Mississippi area when he was six. He grew up having dealing with attention deficit disorder (ADD) & dyslexia, which affected his ability to do well in school. He later atten-ded Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia on a football scholarship, but dropped out. He returned home & started working odd jobs. Us Weekly reported that around this time. Tatum left his job as a roofer & began working as a stripper at a local nightclub, under "Chan Crawford". In 2010, he told an Australian newspaper that he wanted to make a movie about his experiences as a stripper. That idea led to the movie Magic Mike. He was known for his leading role in Magic Mike (2012), its sequel, Magic Mike XXL (2015) which he produced; he also starred in the action-comedy film 21 Jump Street & its 2014 sequel, 22 Jump Street. His other films include White House Down (2013), the drama Foxcatcher (2014),The Hateful Eight ('15) Hail, Caesar!(2016), & Logan Lucky (2017). HE'S THICK & CUT!!! @channingtatum (at Cullman, Alabama)

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thedeadshotnetwork · 7 years

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Why Alabamans Are Defending Roy Moore When the Washington Post reported Thursday that Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama had allegedly tried to initiate sex with a 14-year-old girl when he was a 32-year-old county prosecutor, national Republicans quickly distanced themselves. The National Republican Senate Committee severed fundraising ties with Moore’s campaign. More than a dozen of Moore’s would-be Republican colleagues so far have questioned if he is fit to be in the Senate, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Even Alabama’s senior senator, Richard Shelby, called on Moore to step down from the December 12 special election if the charges are true. President Donald Trump also questioned Moore’s continued candidacy amid the allegations, which Vice President Mike Pence likewise said he found “disturbing.” Senator John McCain didn’t equivocate : “He should immediately step aside and allow the people of Alabama to elect a candidate they can be proud of.” But here in Alabama, the reaction has been very different. One state representative told an Alabama newspaper that Moore’s accuser should be prosecuted . The state auditor said a romantic relation between an older man and a younger woman is Biblical . Many elected and party officials questioned the accuser’s motivations and timing, dismissing the Post report as dirty politics and “fake news.” True, some Republicans, especially among the establishment set who didn’t want Moore in office in the first place, called on Moore to resign if the allegations are true. Asked Friday if the stories told by Moore’s accusers were trustworthy, Governor Kay Ivey, said , “Why wouldn’t it be?” But one longtime Republican even told al.com Moore would have to be “caught on video with a dead boy or a goat” to lose the support of his fervent fans. What’s going on? Partisanship often overrides religious or moral values in Alabama—which largely accounts for the divergent responses to Moore’s scandal in the state versus the rest of the country. But that also makes Moore’s case an interesting litmus test for Alabama, amid a national outing of sexual abusers in entertainment, government and the media. Will the state stand by a man who promises policies that much of the electorate wants and holds similar religious views, or will it abandon him? Moore, who has made a career touting the Ten Commandments and defying federal authority, is a hero to many voters in Alabama, a deeply conservative and religious state where half the residents identify as evangelicals and say they oppose both abortion and LGBTQ rights. Moore, to say the least, has been outspoken on these issues. And an estimated one-third of voters in the state Republican Party, which dominates in Alabama, consistently support him. “Voters in this state have a history of ignoring sexual misconduct,” says Larry Powell, a professor of communications studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a political consultant and the author of books on state politics. “They voted for Trump, and he still has strong support in this state.” Steve Flowers, a former state representative turned political commentator, also cites “Big” Jim Folsom, who had a penchant for kissing women on the campaign trail, saying he would start “with the 16-year-olds” and work his way to older ones from there. Folsom fathered a child out of wedlock while Alabama’s governor in the 1940s and was again elected governor in 1954. Thursday’s story in the Washington Post , in which an Alabama woman said that in 1979, Moore, then 32, had stripped to his underpants, touched her bra and panties and tried to get her to touch him when she was 14, is the talk of Alabama. Three other women also told the Post that Moore, now 70, tried to date them when they were between 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s. Two of the four said he served them alcohol as minors. On Saturday, a former colleague of Moore’s told CNN it was “common knowledge” that Moore dated teenagers at the time. Moore vehemently denies the charges and says he did not even know his main accuser. In a series of Twitter posts, he called the article “the most vicious and nasty round of attacks against me I’ve EVER faced!” and said his campaign is in a “spiritual battle” for conservative Christian values. “The forces of evil will lie, cheat, steal – even inflict physical harm – if they believe it will silence and shut up Christian conservatives,” Moore wrote. “I will NEVER GIVE UP the fight!” But while telling Fox News host Sean Hannity on Friday that dating teenagers “would have been out of my customary behavior,” Moore added, “I don’t remember dating any girl without permission of her mother.” Polling conducted after the Post article was published suggests support for Moore among state voters might be eroding. The survey , conducted Thursday by the Atlanta-based research firm Opinion Savvy, put Moore and his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, in a virtual dead heat with 46.4 percent of respondents saying they would vote for Moore and 46 percent saying they would cast ballots for Jones. The previous Opinion Savvy poll on the race, from late September, had Moore with a 5.7-point lead . But as the reactions of many Alabama officials suggests, that might not enough to sway the outcome of the December 12 special election to fill the former seat of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “Many see this as an attack by the Washington establishment,” says Bill Britt, editor-in-chief of the Alabama Political Reporter. “They conclude this is McConnell’s side of the party coming after Moore’s side.” Flowers estimates that 30 percent of Alabama Republicans would vote for Moore “come hell or high water. … They’re not going to give these accusations any credibility.” And in what is expected to be a low turnout in a crimson-red state, Moore’s base may be enough to carry him to victory. “Some moderate Republicans who are dismayed by all this may stay home,” Powell says. “But I think Moore’s supporters are going to turn out in droves.” To be fair, many in Alabama—Republicans and Democrats—are extremely disturbed by the allegations that Moore as an adult tried to initiate romantic relationships with under-aged girls. The fact that he was a prosecutor at the time when he is alleged to have served alcohol to minors, tried to have sex with a minor and took two to his home in an attempt to have sex—all either misdemeanors or felonies under Alabama law—makes it even more disturbing to them. Powell, for one, argues that most voters in the state, where the age of consent is 16, believe a much older adult seeking sex with a 14-year-old is simply wrong: “That’s definitely too young by anyone’s standards in Alabama.” Not quite anyone, though. Jim Zeigler, the state auditor and former chairman of the Conservative Christians of Alabama and the state League of Christian Voters, told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that there is nothing wrong with a man in his early 30s dating a teen-ager. He cites both John the Baptist and Jesus, saying they were the progeny of men with much-younger wives. (The Bible actually says that Jesus’ mother, Mary, had a virgin conception). Moore married his current wife in 1985 when he was 38 and she was 24. “They’re blessed with a wonderful marriage, and his wife Kayla is 14 years younger than Moore,” Zeigler told the Examiner . Five county Republican party chairs the Toronto Star contacted Thursday said they believed the allegations are false. Bibb County Republican Party chair Jerry Pow might have had the most cynical take. He told the Star he would vote for Moore regardless of whether the allegations are substantiated, later adding he’s not saying he supports sex with minors, he just opposes Democrats. Another county GOP head said he would consider voting for Moore in that case. Ed Henry, a state representative from the northern Alabama city of Hartselle, called Moore the true victim. “If they believe this man is predatory, they are guilty of allowing him to exist for 40 years,” Henry told the Cullman Times . “I think someone should prosecute and go after them. You can’t be a victim 40 years later, in my opinion.” There is already a sustained campaign among some state GOP officials and supporters to dismiss the allegations as fabrications desperately cooked up by the liberal media and the Democratic Party. They point to media reports that one of Moore’s accusers was a sign-language interpreter for Hillary Clinton and other Democrats as evidence of a conspiracy. “A lot of people here won’t believe anything the Washington Post prints,” Flowers says. “Their attitude is, ‘If the Jasper Daily Mountain Eagle says it, I will believe it.’” Many Republicans note the allegations are decades old and question the timing during a high-stakes election when Republicans hold only a thin margin in the U.S. Senate. None of the accusers went public when Moore was elected chief justice in 2000 and 2012 and when he ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2006 and 2010, making the women’s stories even more suspicious, many Republicans here say. In media interviews, the lawyer for Leigh Corfman, the woman who told the Post about a sexual encounter with Moore when she was 14, has said Corfman was afraid to come forward earlier out of concern for her now-adult children. Jones, who denies prior knowledge of the Post story, has said very little about the allegations against Moore. He issued an eight-word statement Thursday: “Roy Moore needs to answer these serious charges.” Accusations of molestation normally would be fodder for attack ads. But Flowers bets Jones is unlikely to use the allegations to attack Moore. “He knows if you go negative on Moore it only will make his people more fervent, so it’s best to leave it alone.” The state Republican Party’s executive committee could vote to withdraw the party’s nomination. That is unlikely, absent a surprise confession by Moore, Flowers says. Because ballots already have been printed and absentees mailed, Moore’s name will remain before voters on December 12, regardless of whether he withdraws or is booted out by the party, according to the Alabama secretary of state’s office. In that scenario, if Moore gets the most votes, the result will be voided and a new election held. As the week wore down, many in Alabama wondered what took so long for the allegations to become public. “This has been the one that got away for more than one Alabama political reporter,” says Kyle Whitmire, a reporter and political columnist for al.com, which serves Birmingham, Huntsville and Mobile. “The rumors have been there, but tracing them back to their sources has always led to dead-ends and leads gone cold.” Whitmire says he was approached a few years ago via social media by what he described in an email to Politico Magazine as “a woman who claimed to be a friend of a friend of the woman in the Post ’s story.” The friends encouraged her to step forward, Whitmire wrote in the email, “but as I understood it at the time, she was very afraid of potential blowback—which has now proven all too warranted—and decided against going public.” Moore will lose only if enough moderate Republicans, many of whom consider him an embarrassment, vote for Jones, Alabama political experts say. “They think he has been a dirty spot on the party for some time,” says Powell, the professor and political consultant. “But their quandary is: Can they bring themselves to vote for a Democrat?” It’s like the fabled divide between fans of the Alabama and Auburn collegiate football teams, says Britt, the political editor. “If you’re an Alabama fan, you just don’t go to the other side and root for Auburn.” November 12, 2017 at 02:50PM

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