By 11 a.m. most days, Jackie Strickland is at her lectern in the lobby of the Chattanooga Public Library, a monument of adoration decorated with scribbled artwork drawn by knee-high admirers; recognition of the protector in the windbreaker with big yellow letters stitched to the back that read "security."
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Man recalls moment he escaped clutches of the I-95 serial killer Gary Ray Bowles who tried to lure him into woods during a murder spree that left six gay men dead in 1994
Jackie Strickland was friends with Albert Morris, 37, who was shot, beaten, and strangled by Gary Ray Bowles on June 13, 1994
Bowles was using the alias, Joey Pearson, when Morris, who frequented gay bars in Jacksonville, brought him home and agreed to let him live there temporarily
While living together, Morris asked his friend Strickland to give Pearson a ride
As part of the Oxygen series, Mark of a Serial Killer, Strickland revealed how driving Pearson along I-95 nearly cost him his life
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COVID Stroke Survivor Says Knowing Symptoms Can Save Your Life
Stroke folders and labels at the Emergency Department at UConn Health in Farmington on Sept. 29, 2020. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)
As the country continues to fight a surge in the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are reporting a decline in the number of stroke cases arriving in their emergency rooms. Some health experts suspect that fear of COVID-19 may be causing people to avoid going to the hospital or calling 911 for non-COVID related medical emergencies, like stroke.
But what if COVID-19 is the cause of your stroke? When symptoms of COVID-19 are often rattled off, a stroke usually isn’t on the top of the list, but Dr. Donald Higgins, an optometrist from Plainville, realized that his double vision and dizziness following a COVID-19 diagnosis was a concern.