Hacker News with Generative AI: Alabama

Nearly 60 cases dismissed due to corruption in Alabama police department (apnews.com)
Pope Leo XIV celebrates first Mass as details emerge of how votes coalesced in secret conclave

Corruption, Law Enforcement, Alabama, Politics, Religion

14 points by miles 14 days ago | 2 comments

An Alabama landline that keeps ringing (oxfordamerican.org)
If you sit at the James E. Foy Information Desk in the Melton Student Center at Auburn University, answering the phones on a Wednesday night, you might be responsible for answering a question like this: “If you died on the operating table and they declared you legally dead and wrote out a death certificate and everything, but then you came back to life, what are the legal ramifications? Do you technically no longer exist?

Odd News, Alabama, Law

338 points by bookofjoe 19 days ago | 105 comments

I became a doctor to save lives. The state of Alabama won't let me: op-ed (al.com)
It was 2015. I had just started my medical residency at UAB when I met a patient I will never forget. Carrie was a 20-year-old woman with Crohn’s disease, an autoimmune condition that causes inflammation in the intestines. Her inflammation was so bad that she needed part of her large intestine removed. She was working at a fast-food restaurant, saving up to attend nursing school. While hospitalized, she lost her job.

Healthcare, Alabama, Medical Residency, Op-Ed

12 points by Jimmc414 45 days ago | 3 comments

Alabama police department put on leave after grand jury recommends its abolition (nbcnews.com)
The mayor of a city in Alabama has placed its entire police department on administrative leave, a day after officials announced that a grand jury had recommended the small department be abolished, saying it had “operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency” and is “an ongoing threat to public safety.”

Police Brutality, Law Enforcement, Grand Jury, Alabama

81 points by geox 91 days ago | 16 comments

3D-printed "ghost gun" ring comes to my community–and leaves a man dead (arstechnica.com)
It's a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a driver who had just hit a deer. The two men walked up the driveway of a nearby home. For reasons that remain unclear, a man came out of the house with a gun and started shooting.

Gun Violence, 3D Printing, Crime, Alabama

9 points by pseudolus 118 days ago | 2 comments

The Selma March (1965) (newyorker.com)
The thirty thousand people who at one point or another took part in this week’s march from the Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, to the statehouse in Montgomery were giving highly dramatic expression to a principle that could be articulated only in the vaguest terms.

History, Civil Rights, United States, Alabama

86 points by mitchbob 123 days ago | 17 comments

US' largest solar panel maker First Solar debuts its $1B 3.5GW Alabama factory (electrek.co)
First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) inaugurated its new $1.1 billion fully vertically integrated thin-film solar factory in Lawrence County, Alabama.

Solar Energy, Manufacturing, Alabama, Renewable Energy, Business

25 points by toomuchtodo 236 days ago | 4 comments

1,800 Alabama students will repeat third grade under new reading law (apnews.com)

Education, Alabama, Legislation, School

15 points by geox 288 days ago | 0 comments

Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck (al.com)

Organ Donation, Alabama, Crime, Legal Issues

136 points by Jimmc414 374 days ago | 64 comments

Alabama House of Representatives advances bill allowing arrest of librarians (alreporter.com)

Politics, Censorship, Libraries, Alabama

13 points by hollywood_court 392 days ago | 6 comments