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9:20 p.m. Final election results are posted. The City of Tuscaloosa reports 20% turnout for the mayoral race.
8:30 p.m. Incumbent Mayor Walt Maddox declares outright victory, finishing with 56% of the vote.
7 p.m. Polls close in Tuscaloosa. According to the latest report from the city, there are 59,301 registered voters inside of the Tuscaloosa city limits.
4 p.m. City spokesman Richard Rush tells Patch that the city will be publishing election results as they come in on the city s new election dashboard. Polls close at 7 p.m.
11:30 a.m. Tuscaloosa Patch published an update with results from a recent unscientific web poll asking readers to grade the campaigns of each mayoral candidate. Read the full update here.
In one of the closest elections in recent memory, Tuscaloosa City Councilwoman Sonya McKinstry has lost her bid for a third term to represent District 7.
Unofficial results have McKinstry 25 votes short of challenger Cassius Lanier, a local businessman behind the Lanier Automotive Co., who earned 749 votes to McKinstry s 724.
Meanwhile, District 5 incumbent Kip Tyner earned his seventh term on the council by defeating challenger and University of Alabama student Sam Badger by a vote of 1,221 to 290.
District 2 incumbent Raevan Howard and Norman Crow, a former city Board of Education member who was vying for the City Council s District 3 seat, earned enough votes to win their council seats outright over multiple opponents.
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image captionThe priority when full schooling resumes will be to identify gaps with each child, head teacher Matt Hood said
Covid-caused disruption for children learning the basics of reading and counting could pose problems for years to come, a head teacher has warned.
Matt Hood, principal of the online Oak National Academy, said early years teaching was sophisticated and it was unreasonable to expect parents to master it.
He said we may see the impact when pupils sit GCSEs 10 years from now.
The government said more than £1bn was being spent to help pupils catch up.
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The donation came about after an IT worker at the CPS saw the Mail s campaign. We are accepting used laptops and – for around £15 – having them professionally refurbished for young learners.
All the latest 6,500 devices are lightweight and powerful ThinkPads made by Lenovo.
The CPS said it would delete all the data on them, including sensitive notes kept by prosecutors of criminal records and case evidence used in trials and plea hearings.
Their value is estimated to be at least £3million, although they will have to go through a formal evaluation before being accepted for schools. Rebecca Lawrence, chief executive of the CPS, said: We need to adapt to the changing demands of our job, such as handling increasingly large data files like CCTV and police body-worn footage. To keep pace, we need to upgrade our equipment.