Accused cop killer pleads guilty in 2019 slaying of Birmingham police Sgt. Wytasha Carter
Updated Feb 22, 2021;
Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr announced that Jeremy Elwin Owens, 33, today pleaded guilty to capital murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. He avoided the death penalty by taking the plea.
He also pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder in the wounding of Officer Lucas Allums and for shooting at Sgt. Talana Brown. He received life in the two attempted murder convictions.
Carr said the plea ends the criminal case, “but we know the effects of this defendant’s actions will be felt by the Carter family, the Birmingham Police Department and our community forever.”
Stunning that Amazon’s groundbreaking union vote is in Alabama
Updated Feb 14, 2021;
Today’s guest columnist is Eli Cohen.
When I first saw that Amazon’s biggest unionization effort to date was taking place here in Birmingham, I couldn’t believe what I was reading.
I grew up in Birmingham. Even as a child, I was politically involved, travelling to Montgomery to visit lawmakers at the capital, and later to learn the dark sides of our history at the Equal Justice Initiative.
I was no expert, but I thought I understood Alabama politics. I didn’t know everything, but I was confident Alabama was not going to be the site of Amazon’s first domestic union showdown. But as voting begins at the company’s Bessemer facility, that is exactly what’s happening.
The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama System on Friday unanimously approved the renaming of the former George C. Wallace Building on the University of Alabama at Birmingham campus. The facility is now the Physical Education Building. (UAB News)
UAB News
The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama System on Friday unanimously approved the renaming of the former George C. Wallace Building on the University of Alabama at Birmingham campus. The facility is now the Physical Education Building.
The decision followed a unanimous recommendation by a working group charged with reviewing named buildings on UA System campuses relative to Shared Values that include integrity, leadership, accountability, diversity, inclusion and respect.
UA System Board of Trustees renames Wallace Building at UAB The UAB Campus By WBRC Staff | February 8, 2021 at 11:53 AM CST - Updated February 10 at 4:29 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama System unanimously approved the renaming of the former George C. Wallace Building on the University of Alabama at Birmingham campus.
The vote was Feb. 5, 2021.
The facility is now called the Physical Education Building.
The decision followed a unanimous recommendation by a working group charged with reviewing named buildings on UA System campuses relative to Shared Values that include integrity, leadership, accountability, diversity, inclusion and respect.
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The University of Alabama Board of Trustees has renamed the Wallace Building at UAB. (Michael Seale/Patch)
BIRMINGHAM, AL The University of Alabama system Board of Trustees voted Friday to rename a building at the University of Alabama at Birmingham that was named for former governor George C. Wallace.
Wallace was the center of attention nationwide during the Civil Rights Era in Alabama, and famously stood in the doorway of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama, a symbolic attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from enrolling at the school.
The decision by the board Friday followed a unanimous recommendation by a working group charged with reviewing named buildings on UA System campuses relative to Shared Values that include integrity, leadership, accountability, diversity, inclusion and respect.