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Birmingham: The Birmingham VA Health Care System is expanding its ability to vaccinate veterans against COVID-19, provided it can get enough doses. A partnership with the United Way of Central Alabama will allow the agency to provide as many as 1,000 shots a day beginning this week to veterans who are at least 65 years old, the VA said. That’s up from the current daily total of 300 people. The change comes because the VA’s vaccine clinic is moving into a United Way building in downtown Birmingham. Chief executive Stacy Vasquez said the system will schedule as many veterans as it can for shots, but obtaining additional vaccine is key. “Right now, I have enough vaccine to take care of 5,000 people next week. But then after that, unless I get another shipment, I don’t know,” Vasquez told WBRC-TV last week. The VA’s vacc
Three additional AFSCME Union Members have died in the past few days
3 AFSCME members died of COVID-19
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The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 3 has learned three additional union members have died in the past few days, bringing the number of deceased essential employees to 9.
They state that there are also well over 3,000 COVID positive members.
The members that passed were a correctional maintenance officer in Baltimore City, a correctional officer in Hagerstown, and a Facilities employee at the University of Maryland, College Park.
âToday we mourn the passing of one our own. Officer Renner served the people of Maryland with honor for 10 years. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and co-workers. We need everyone to stay healthy and safe and take every precaution so we can get through this together,â said Tom Myers, President of Local 1772, Hagerstown Corrections, said,
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The man who fatally stabbed a 23-year-old Black man in 2017 was sentenced to life in prison Thursday.
Sean Urbanski, 25, apologized in court for killing 23-year-old Richard Collins III at a bus stop in 2017. He told the victim’s parents minutes before learning his sentence, that he would go back and switch places with Collins if he could.
On the night of the May 2017 stabbing, Collins was just three days away from graduating from Bowie State University and was visiting the University of Maryland College Park campus to celebrate. The newly commissioned second lieutenant in the Army was at a bus stop on the university’s campus with two friends, an Asian woman and a white man, at around 3 a.m. when an approaching Urbanski told him “Step left, step left if you know what’s best for you.”