Channel 2 Action News said that reporter
Matt Johnson and photojournalist
They recognized
J’ssan Carlos Strover, wanted for murder, and called law enforcement. Strover was arrested and the news crew was there to film it.
Johnson explained in a follow-up on-air report it was an “incredibly surreal” experience for him and Booker.
“We were driving, we saw somebody run in front of us, go into the woods,” he said. “We had to both look at ourselves and say ‘Did that just happen?’ We just didn’t think there was a chance, 14 hours later, that this suspect was still in the area, but that’s exactly what the situation was.”
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Tuscaloosa:No community spikes in coronavirus infections related to last week’s celebration of the University of Alabama football team’s national championship have been reported at local hospitals. But Mayor Walt Maddox said Tuesday the situation could change in the coming days. New arrivals at DCH Health System hospitals have remained fairly level since the daily inpatient totals soared above 100 in early December, according to the latest data from City Hall. “Although it’s not going down, it’s not going up precipitously,” Maddox said, “and certainly we’ll take that bit of good news.” Outside of Monday’s count of 31, the number of those arriving at DCH Health System hospitals suffering from the coronavirus has averaged about 20 per day for the past week. In that span, DCH had admitted 154 new COVID-19 patients while discharging 176 who had recovered. Among those admitted, 36% are from within the Tuscaloosa city l
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Alabama
Tuscaloosa: No community spikes in coronavirus infections related to last week’s celebration of the University of Alabama football team’s national championship have been reported at local hospitals. But Mayor Walt Maddox said Tuesday the situation could change in the coming days. New arrivals at DCH Health System hospitals have remained fairly level since the daily inpatient totals soared above 100 in early December, according to the latest data from City Hall. “Although it’s not going down, it’s not going up precipitously,” Maddox said, “and certainly we’ll take that bit of good news.” Outside of Monday’s count of 31, the number of those arriving at DCH Health System hospitals suffering from the coronavirus has averaged about 20 per day for the past week. In that span, DCH had admitted 154 ne
Georgia teen returns home after prison sentence for violating COVID-19 quarantine
Updated Jan 18, 2021;
Zachary Hansen, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)
ATLANTA After spending more than a month in a Cayman Islands prison for breaking COVID-19 quarantine rules, a metro Atlanta teenager is back home, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Skylar Mack, 18, of Loganville, arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday, where she reunited with her mother, the news station reported.
Mack and her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, were charged after Mack broke the county’s strict 14-day quarantine rules to watch Ramgeet, 24, participate in a water sports competition. She removed a location tracking device from her wrist in order to attend the November event.
The Georgia teen who spent more than a month behind bars in the Cayman Islands for ditching her mandatory COVID-19 quarantine is out of jail and back in the U.S.