Jay Reeves
WOKV News
Birmingham, AL, United States
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Slavery's ghost haunts cotton gin factory's transformation
A construction project in Alabama demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history in 2022 → Read More
Alabama fails to complete lethal injection for 3rd time
Alabama started and then stopped another lethal injection because prison workers were unable to establish the intravenous lines needed to administer a deadly dose → Read More
Alabama fails to complete lethal injection for 3rd time
Alabama started and then stopped another lethal injection because prison workers were unable to establish the intravenous lines needed to administer a deadly dose → Read More
Family of financier of last U.S. slave ship breaks silence
Descendants of the Alabama man responsible for illegally bringing 110 African captives to America aboard the last U.S. slave ship have broken generations of public silence → Read More
Outgoing senators backing US recognition for 2 state tribes
Native American groups in Alabama and North Carolina are hoping that two outgoing U.S. senators can help them achieve something that's been elusive so far: federal recognition as tribes → Read More
Lessons from Hurricane Michael being applied to Ian recovery
Southwest Florida is getting some advice from the Florida Panhandle as it moves ahead after Hurricane Ian → Read More
Lessons from Hurricane Michael being applied to Ian recovery
Southwest Florida is getting some advice from the Florida Panhandle as it moves ahead after Hurricane Ian → Read More
Florida shrimpers race to get battered fleet back to sea
The seafood industry in southwest Florida is racing against time and the elements to save what’s left of both a major shrimping fleet and a lifestyle battered by Hurricane Ian → Read More
Search for victims done, Florida coast aims for Ian recovery
Southwest Florida is looking ahead toward the long slog of recovering from a rare direct hit by a major hurricane → Read More
Search for victims done, Florida coast aims for Ian recovery
Southwest Florida is looking ahead toward the long slog of recovering from its first direct hit from a major hurricane in a century → Read More
Ian leaves scenes of recovery, despair on Florida coast
A few miles meant the difference between life and death on the Florida coast when Hurricane Ian struck → Read More
Residents allowed to return to Florida island slammed by Ian
Residents are being allowed to return to a coastal Florida island that was decimated by Hurricane Ian → Read More
Disasters like Ian pose extra risk for fragile older people
Older people with limited mobility and those with chronic health conditions requiring the use of electrically powered medical devices were especially vulnerable when Hurricane Ian slammed into Southwest Florida → Read More
As search goes on, Floridians await OK to survey Ian's wrath
William Wellema drove all the way from New Jersey to Florida's Gulf Coast to see if his vacation home on Fort Myers Beach survived Hurricane Ian → Read More
U.S. captives 'prayed for death' on brutal ride from Ukraine
One of two American veterans released from Russian captivity after being captured in Ukraine says they both prayed for death during the brutal ride to freedom → Read More
Book shows personal side of 'Mockingbird' author Harper Lee
A new book shows the personal side of the late “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee → Read More
Russian separatists release 10, including 2 US veterans
Relatives say two U.S. military veterans who were captured while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces are among 10 people released by Russian-backed separatists in a prisoner exchange → Read More
Alabama sidesteps compensation for survivor of '63 KKK blast
Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls inside an Alabama church 59 years ago → Read More
Watering while Black: anatomy of a pastor's Alabama arrest
A Black pastor plans to sue an Alabama city whose white police officers placed him in handcuffs after he refused to identify himself while watering flowers for his neighbor on private property → Read More
Watering while Black: anatomy of a pastor's Alabama arrest
A Black pastor plans to sue an Alabama city whose white police officers placed him in handcuffs after he refused to identify himself while watering flowers for his neighbor on private property → Read More