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Eddie Burkhalter

Eddie Burkhalter is a reporter at the Alabama Political Reporter. You can email him at [email protected] or reach him via Twitter.

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Fairhope church members back in U.S. after testing negative for coronavirus.

Members of a Fairhope church who were quarantined in an Israeli hotel arrived back in the U.S. early Tuesday morning after testing negative for COVID-19, a church spokesman said Tuesday. The 13 church members from 3Circle Church have chosen to complete a “medically-supervised quarantine,” wrote church spokesman Zach Adamson in a statement Tuesday. “Our team … Continued

Eddie Burkhalter

March 11, 2020

Alabama school officials cancel overseas travel over coronavirus concerns

The Alabama Department of Education has asked local school systems to disallow school-sponsored overseas travel as the department works to prevent a coronavirus outbreak. Mackey said that the state Department of Education has asked that local school districts cancel overseas travel “over the next several weeks.” “It’s not necessarily just about catching the virus overseas … Continued

Eddie Burkhalter

March 11, 2020

Alabama Department of Correction’s coronavirus plan not ready

The Alabama Department of Corrections doesn’t yet have a plan for how to deal with coronavirus in state prisons, according to the department. “The ADOC will work with the ADPH and other state agencies to develop our Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP), as the Department has in previous years in formulating our pandemic response,” wrote … Continued

Eddie Burkhalter

March 11, 2020

Mobile Archbishop issues statement on liturgical practices due to coronavirus

Mobile’s Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi in a statement Monday issued directives meant to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus during liturgical celebrations. Rodi said that he had hoped previous statements sent to clergy, parents and students at Catholic schools on ways to prevent the spread of the virus would be enough. “I was not … Continued

Eddie Burkhalter

March 10, 2020

UAB preparing for possibility of coronavirus outbreak, vaccine at least a year away

A vaccine for coronavirus is making its way through the testing process, but will likely take at least a year before it’s ready for the market, said a University of Alabama at Birmingham physician on Friday. Dr. Molly Fleece, an infectious disease expert at the UAB, told reporters at a press conference Friday that there … Continued

Eddie Burkhalter

March 6, 2020

Fairhope church members quarantined in Bethlehem, hotel staff tested positive for coronavirus

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 11 a.m. Friday with news on church members’ testing. A Fairhope church says 13 members are being quarantined in a Bethlehem hotel after a previous visitor and 7 hotel workers tested positive for Coronavirus. Al.com reported Friday that the church members were tested for coronavirus Friday. In a … Continued

Eddie Burkhalter

March 6, 2020

Alabama’s State Public Health lab ready to test for coronavirus

It was unclear for a time Thursday whether Alabama’s public health lab in Montgomery could test for coronavirus or not. Conflicting statements Thursday from an Alabama Department of Public Health physician and a tweet an hour later from the department’s official Twitter account made it uncertain whether the state’s lab can or cannot test for … Continued

Eddie Burkhalter

March 6, 2020

Nathanial Woods executed as accomplice in 2004 murders of three police officers

A Birmingham man convicted of being an accomplice in the murders of three Birmingham police officers was executed Thursday evening. Nathaniel Woods, 43, was executed after appeals and national media attention failed to deter Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey to intervene. Woods was convicted of being an accomplice in the murders, despite the shooter’s statements that … Continued

Eddie Burkhalter

March 6, 2020

Pleas for clemency mount ahead of execution set for Thursday

At 6 p.m. today Nathaniel Woods is to be put to death at Holman prison for the shooting deaths of three police officers whom he did not shoot. A jury in 2005 convicted Woods of being an accomplice to the deaths of the three Birmingham police officers – Charles Bennett, Carlos Owen and Harley Chisholm … Continued

Eddie Burkhalter

March 5, 2020

Two correctional officers, two prison visitors arrested for contraband

Two correctional officers and two visitors to state prisons have been arrested on charges related to illegal contraband, the Alabama Department of Corrections announced Wednesday. Basic correctional officer Terrence Tolbert, 39, of Brewton, was arrested on Feb. 24 after an investigation into contraband at Fountain Correctional Facility, according to ADOC’s press release Wednesday. “The agent … Continued

Eddie Burkhalter

March 5, 2020