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Alabama
Montgomery: The state is getting roughly half as much COVID-19 vaccine as it was expecting based on federal plans announced last year, officials said Friday, meaning it would take more than two years to vaccinate the adult population without improvement. The state has 800 approved vaccination sites and is trying to deliver shots as quickly as it can, but supply issues have been the biggest hindrance to state vaccination efforts, said Dr. Scott Harris, head of the Alabama Department of Public Health. “Every state had the idea that they were going to get much more vaccine than they ultimately got,” he said. “I assume this is related to optimistic projections and the inability of manufacturers to keep up that. … There just wasn’t enough vaccine to go around.” Alabama health officials were expecting to get more th
NEW YORK
A bar owner who struck a New York City sheriff’s deputy with a car last month will only face criminal charges alleging he served patrons indoors in defiance of state coronavirus restrictions.
Mac’s Public House co-owner Daniel Presti has been indicted on misdemeanor charges of selling alcohol without a license and operating an unlicensed bottle club, Staten Island prosecutors said Friday. A grand jury that heard evidence in the case, including Presti’s testimony, did not charge him in connection with a Dec. 6 incident in which authorities say he got into his car to flee arrest, struck a sheriff’s deputy and drove about 100 yards (90 meters) as the deputy clung to the hood.
Authorities in New York City say the co-owner of a bar that was defying coronavirus restrictions was arrested early Sunday after running over a deputy with his car. NBC New York s Tracie Strahan reports.
Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon had convened a grand jury for the case and that grand jury found sufficient evidence to charge Presti only with the licensing-related offenses. The bar had been closed multiple times and its license temporarily suspended because of the ongoing COVID protocol breaches.
In a statement Friday, McMahon said he couldn t discuss details on the grand jury proceedings, but could assure Staten Islanders that we do intend to pursue those charges, and will seek to hold this defendant accountable under the law.
Fugitive Father Nabbed in NYC Daughter s Chilling Murder More Than a Year Later: DA The father of a woman whose body was found in late 2019 in a New York City park has been indicted on murder and other charges in her death
Published December 22, 2020 •
Updated on December 22, 2020 at 12:50 pm
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The father of a woman whose body was found last year in a New York City park has been indicted on murder and other charges in her death
Ola Salem, of Staten Island, was found unresponsive in Bloomingdale Park in October 2019; The ME ruled the cause of death as asphyxia