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Amy Yurkanin

Amy Yurkanin

Senior Reporter/Producer at AL.com

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  • English
Covering topics
  • Health & Medicine
  • Investigative Reporting

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Recent Articles

al.com

Claims that bill would create registry of pregnant women ‘flagrantly false,’ says staff for Alaba...

The backlash against a bill sponsored by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., included claims it would create a national registry of pregnant women. But the proposed website, Pregnancy.gov, would not require women to submit personal information and does not include questions about pregnancy status, a spokesman said.
6 months ago
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Feds find children working in Alabama chicken plant, ask court to h...

Federal officials want to use a new tool to enforce laws against child labor against a Jasper chicken plant. They are asking a judge to stop the sale of all chicken tainted with child labor for 30 days, a move that the attorneys for the plant said would hurt workers and the local economy.
6 months ago
al.com

Can autopsies help figure out why Alabama loses too many young moms...

A state program will offer more families free autopsies for moms who die in the first year after birth to help reduce Alabama’s high rate of maternal mortality
6 months ago
al.com

Alabama hospital goes hybrid as Birmingham doctors treat ICU patien...

UAB has launched its first tele-ICU unit at Whitfield Regional Hospital in Demopolis. Nurses and specialists can continuously monitor the vital signs of patients in the ICU about 100 miles away.
5 months ago
al.com

UAB to acquire Ascension St. Vincent’s hospital system in $450 mill...

The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved a $450 million acquisition Tuesday of Ascension St. Vincent’s, which operates a flagship hospital in Birmingham, alongside smaller facilities in east Birmingham, St. Clair County, Blount County and Chilton County.
5 months ago
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Future of delta-8 in question as lawmakers and hemp industry square...

In Alabama, lawmakers moved to ban delta-8 and similar products in 2021 and 2022, but settled for a bill that restricts their sale to those 21 and older. Similar fights have been playing out in other states wrestling with the proliferation of intoxicating products with limited federal oversight.
5 months ago
al.com

Two Alabama hospitals closing inpatient services, including rural b...

Grove Hill Memorial is closing one of rural south Alabama’s last birthing units; East Alabama Medical Center-Lanier will become a Rural Emergency Hospital.
5 months ago
al.com

‘Babies are going to die,’ says one of last doctors delivering babi...

Grove Hill Memorial Hospital will end labor and delivery services in August and convert to a Rural Emergency Hospital. It will leave a large region of the state without a hospital that delivers babies.
4 months ago
al.com

After prison, Alabama activist has a new name and outlook on voting...

Kenneth Sharpton-Glasgow said his father wrote to him and asked him to go by the name Sharpton while he was in federal prison.
4 months ago
al.com

Customers claim owner of popular Tuscaloosa restaurant used racist ...

A video Saturday showed a confrontation between the owner and a group of Black and white customers.
4 months ago
al.com

She used delta-8 from a gas station. Alabama said she couldn’t keep...

Many drug tests can't tell marijuana from delta-8 and similar legal products in Alabama.
3 months ago