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Family of Alton Sterling, the black victim of a fatal police shooting at...
The convenience store where Alton Sterling died The family of a black Louisiana man has settled a police-shooting lawsuit against Baton Rouge for $4.5 million. The settlement in the death of Alton...
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Rioters at U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were driven largely by fears that whites...
Rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were driven largely by fears that white people will be replaced by people of color as the American majority, according to a University of Chicago research study....
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Investigation of Trump-era DOJ abuses shows signs of reaching into Alabama...
Jeff Sessions and Donald TrumpAn investigation into apparent corruption at the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) -- involving a secret scheme to spy on journalists, Democratic members of Congress, and...
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Alabama U.S. judge shows a proper analysis of current law can deny qualified...
Part TwoCourt records indicate a lawsuit over a white police officer's fatal shooting of a 19-year-old black youth in Mobile, AL, settled for $2.5 million after a federal judge denied the officer's...
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Netflix episode called "Guardians Inc." might have sparked the interest of...
Joann Bashinsky Investigations of alleged elder exploitation -- personified in Alabama by the case of the late Joann "Mrs. B" Bashinsky -- likely are being conducted, according to a post at...
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U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona indicates she is ready to tackle elder abuse in...
Prim Escalona Prim Escalona, who replaced disgraced Trump appointee Jay Town as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and is being retained by the Biden Administration, has issued a...
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Low vaccination rates are driving a surge of COVID-19 cases in southwest...
Hospitals in Springfield, MO, are near capacity Missouri is No. 1 in the country for its rate of new COVID-19 cases, and the surge is particularly acute in southwest Missouri, where I grew up and where...
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Venable, a big-name law firm from Baltimore, reportedly enters the North...
A prestigious East Coast law firm is investigating the apparent framing of former Drummond Company executive David Roberson in the North Birmingham Superfund case, according to a report at...
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How are Balch & Bingham's diversity efforts going? Not so well, considering...
Stephen McKitt Birmingham's Balch & Bingham law firm, with racism and segregation in its past, has seen one of its few black attorneys hit the exits after only eight months on the job, according to...
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Aging condos, often featuring flawed governance practices, can become...
The deadly collapse of Champlain Towers South in the Miami, Florida, area raises concerns about the soundness of condominium construction. It also raises questions about the condo governance model,...
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How did Birmingham's Balch & Bingham get involved with a $200-million...
Birmingham's Balch & Bingham law firm, which seems irresistibly drawn to dubious schemes, apparently is involved with a new one -- this time, in Mississippi -- according to a report at...
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Missouri's GOP governor keeps his head stuck in the sand, discouraging...
COVID clusters that threaten health across U.S.Missouri leads the nation in new COVID-19 cases, thanks largely to low vaccination rates and the emerging Delta variant. The state also is among five...
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Do Balch & Bingham's "Pimps of Mississippi" have a genuine interest in...
"The Pimps of Mississippi" (banbalch.com)A number of unflattering adjectives -- "criminal" and "racist" are two that readily come to mind -- pop up in reporting about actions of the Balch & Bingham...
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Louisville Police Department faces lawsuit that alleges cops lied about the...
Breonna Taylor (wdrb.com) Stories of police brutality, where thuggish cops leave citizens seriously injured, or dead, seem to pop up almost daily in recent months. Along with those, come stories of...
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Fatal shooting of white teen-ager by white deputy in rural Arkansas might...
A mostly white crowd protests the fatal shooting of Hunter BrittainAmerica's police-brutality problem has been framed in black and white, largely because significant evidence indicates people of color...
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Secrecy and star chambers are running rampant in Alabama's "public" courts,...
Sheriff Mike Blakely (al.com) In the first post ever published at this blog -- dated June 3, 2007, and titled "Is your honor really honorable?" -- we wrote about an Alabama judge who refused to apply...
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Ben Crump and Al Sharpton say the fatal police shooting of white Arkansas...
Hunter Brittain The influence of black civil-rights leaders Rev. Al Sharpton and attorney Ben Crump on a fatal police shooting in rural Arkansas could lead to much-needed reform for American policing,...
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Rob Riley, son of Alabama's former governor, is pondering a run at Richard...
Rob and Bob RileyRob Riley, the son of former Gov. and U.S. Rep. Bob Riley, is considering a 2022 run for Richard Shelby's U.S. Senate seat, according to multiple Alabama-based Web sites -- including...
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Balch & Bingham sees 27 percent of local attorneys -- and millions in fees --...
Balch & Bingham (Washington Post) Birmingham's Balch & Bingham law firm, embroiled in race- and environment-related controversy for roughly seven years, is losing attorneys -- and fees -- at a...
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As the Missouri Ozarks struggle under the Delta variant and a wave of COVID...
Ozark Empire Fair Mercy Hospital Springfield, the largest health-care provider in the Missouri Ozarks (where we live) has hit its all-time high for COVID-19 cases. But the local county fair, which has...
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