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Jefferson County Coroner asks for helping finding families of 5 people
The Jefferson County Coroner is asking for help finding family members for five people who recently died in Jefferson County. 59-year-old Scott Kenneth Vaughn's skeletal remains were found in the 3500 block of Grandview Parkway in Birmingham on February 17, 2024. Vaughn was identified by DNA comparison. In August of 2023, Vaughn was living in Montgomery, and he has listed past addresses in Athens, Alabama, Higdon, Alabama, Hazel Green, Alabama, and Flinstone, Georgia.
SPLC plans local voter engagement campaign across these eight Alabama cities
The Southern Poverty Law Center announced May 23 it will engage with voters in eight Alabama cities' municipal election contests for the 2025 election cycle to have minority voters better represented in their local governments. "In these cities across Alabama, Black citizens have been underrepresented in city government for too long,” said Brandon Jones, director of political campaigns for the SPLC Action Fund. “We are committed to learning more about these communities to ensure their concerns and...
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