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☆ Mass Shootings in the U.S.: A Symptom of Despair - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Jillian Peterson | James Densley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +23 min

Seven killed and 46 injured in Highland Park, Ill., on July 4, 2022He suffered from severe back pain. Eight killed and seven injured in Indianapolis on April 15, 2021He was known for being paranoid with a short temper. Five killed and seven injured in Aurora, Ill., on Feb. 15, 2019He had expressed violent thoughts. Nine killed and seven injured in Red Lake, Minn., on March 21, 2005He had been noticeably depressed and angry at church. Seven killed and seven injured in Fort Worth on Sept. 15, 1999He killed his daughter’s cat because he was upset.

☆ The 10 best cities to buy a home in 2023 are all in the South
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Mike Winters | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The median price of homes in some of these markets isn't cheaper than the national median of $398,500. However, these cities scored high on other metrics such as job growth or housing supply. Here are the 10 best places to buy a home in 2023, according to NAR:1. However, this fast-growing market has strong migration gains and job growth that is nearly twice the national average. Just under 30% of renters can afford a typical home with a 10% down payment, which is almost twice the national average.

☆ An Alabama farmer secretly paid pharmacy bills for people in his small town – citizens found out only after his death
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hody Childress made monthly anonymous donations to a small Alabama pharmacy. Walker told the station she'd put the cash in an envelope. His contributions eventually grew into the thousands, and the money helped at least two uninsured people each month, she told local news. I kept my word of not telling anyone, even the family," Walker told WVTM13. "There are so many people in Geraldine who have lived longer because of Hody," pharmacist Heather Walker told WVTM13.

☆ Texas executes former officer who hired hitmen to kill his wife
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A former suburban Houston police officer was executed Tuesday for hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago amid a contentious divorce and custody battle. Prosecutors say Robert Fratta organized the murder-for-hire plot in which a middleman, Joseph Prystash, hired the shooter, Howard Guidry. The execution was carried out after Texas’ top criminal appeals court overturned the injunction and the state’s supreme court rejected an appeal. Mauzy’s order conflicted with last week’s edict from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that barred her from issuing any orders in the lawsuit that would halt any execution. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles last week unanimously declined to commute Fratta’s death sentence to a lesser penalty or to grant a 60-day reprieve.

Millions of people in the South and the Southeast are at risk of severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and flash floods Tuesday and Wednesday, while a messy winter storm is expected to hit the Midwest and a separate storm slams California later this week. Threats of severe thunderstorms, flash floodsAs many as 20 million people from southeast Louisiana to south-central Alabama are at risk for severe thunderstorms Tuesday that could bring damaging wind gusts, large hail and some strong tornadoes, classified as having winds of more than 111 mph. The thunderstorms are expected to continue through the day and last into the overnight hours. In addition to the severe thunderstorms, flash flooding will also be a threat. St. Louis could see a high in the early 70s Tuesday before expected highs plunge to the high-30s and the mid-40s the rest of the week.

☆ A 24-year-old barber moved to Atlanta a month ago and has already seen 'doors open,' showing why real-estate gurus say it's a top place to watch in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-25 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The National Association of Realtors named Atlanta the city to watch in 2023. While the national housing market is cooling, it's still thriving in Georgia's capital. Jay Martino, a barber who moved to Atlanta from Charleston, South Carolina. These factors will help Atlanta withstand the headwinds buffeting the national market, which is reeling after skyrocketing home prices and interest rates put home purchases out of reach. The trend suggests the local housing market can outperform the rest of the country in 2023, according to the National Association of Realtors.

☆ Forecasters expect a ‘prolonged rainfall event’ across the South this week
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Haley Brink | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Several days of heavy rain are forecast across portions of the southern US this week, which could improve persisting drought conditions but also lead to significant flooding. “The threat for flooding will start late Monday into early Tuesday for areas south of I-40, especially near the Alabama border,” the National Weather Service office in Nashville, Tennessee said. “If rainfall becomes especially heavy or pockets of heavy rain move across the same areas repeatedly, more significant flash flooding will occur,” the weather service in Nashville warned. Many locations across the southern US could see rain every day this week, including Memphis, according to the weather service. “Flooding may develop, starting early in the week for low lying and flood prone areas, and along small streams,” the weather service in Nashville said.

CNN —Severe storms and tornadoes swept through parts of the South from Tuesday into Wednesday morning, killing at least two people in Alabama and damaging homes, other buildings and downing trees in several states, officials said. Tornadoes decimate parts of AlabamaThe tornado that killed two in the Flatwood area near Montgomery had winds estimated at 110 mph, the National Weather Service said. The storm, which might have included a tornado, sounded “like a train coming through,” Perkins told CNN on Wednesday. “We were successful in getting (to) some people that had to hunker down in their homes that were messed up,” Austin told CNN on Wednesday. Some parts of the South, including between Huntsville and Birmingham in Alabama, saw between 2 and 4 inches of rain Tuesday.

Heavy rain and strong winds are expected in the southern Great Plains this weekend from Texas stretching to Mississippi where it's already raining, threatening post-Thanksgiving travel plans, according to the National Weather Service. Nearly 55 million people were expected to travel 50 miles or more from their homes this Thanksgiving weekend — 98% of pre-pandemic levels, according to AAA. Although the severe weather risk is very low on Sunday, there will be the potential for strong winds and frequent lightning that could impact travel, especially in the Northeast. Another developing storm system will also continue to bring heavy rain in addition to mountain snow to the Pacific Northwest this weekend, according to the weather service. Winter weather advisories are in place for parts of the Cascades and Northern Rockies, including northern Idaho, Montana, and southeast Wyoming.

☆ People investing as little as $1,000 for partial ownership of a property share how they did it, the risks, and the rewards
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Several real-estate investing startups allow people to buy portions of properties instead of whole homes. Though he bought a personal residence for himself in 2020, the Eagle Mountain, Utah resident didn't have enough cash on-hand to purchase an investment rental property. A growing number of startups like Fintor — including Arrived Homes, Fundrise, and others — are making real-estate investing more accessible for the average person using the "fractional ownership" model. Fundrise also allows investors to buy shares of Fundrise the company itself through a primary offering, which Kelkile has also done. Tyler Witty, a 47-year-old who owns an exterior cleaning company in Richmond, Virginia, already owns three investment properties.

☆ Texas set to execute man for killing pregnant ex-girlfriend and her son
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

He was condemned for the February 2005 deaths of Lisa Underwood, 34, and her son Jayden. Texas prison officials didn’t formally update their policy but said they would review inmates’ petitions on a case-by-case basis and would grant most reasonable requests. Prosecutors said Barbee killed his ex-girlfriend and her son because he didn’t want his wife to know Underwood was seven months pregnant, presumably by him. Barbee confessed to police he killed Underwood and her son but later recanted. If Barbee is executed, he would be the fifth inmate put to death this year in Texas.

☆ Small Business Group Challenges Law Requiring Corporate-Ownership Disclosure
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Dylan Tokar | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +3 min

A small business group is suing to block a law that was designed to stop money-laundering by rooting out the use of anonymous shell companies. The Corporate Transparency Act, the law’s formal name, was passed as part of annual defense spending legislation and signed into law last year. The group filed its lawsuit with Isaac Winkles of Huntsville, Ala., who owns a small business managing real-estate properties. The lawsuit poses a new challenge to FinCEN, which has already missed the mandated timeline for launching the corporate-ownership database. In addition to setting up the corporate-transparency database, the law also requires FinCEN to take a number of other steps—a whistleblower award program, among others—to strengthen the U.S.’s anti-money-laundering safeguards.

☆ Alabama’s Three Largest Newspapers to Stop Printing Next Year
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Alexandra Bruell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The print readership of the three Alabama newspapers has been shrinking rapidly. A view of downtown Birmingham, Ala.One of the nation’s biggest publishers has decided to stop printing Alabama’s three largest newspapers and make them digital-only, the latest in a long string of local paper closures across America. Advance Publications , which owns 24 newspapers as well as the Condé Nast magazine-publishing empire, plans to announce it will end the print operations of the Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times and Mobile’s Press-Register in February.

☆ A 27-year-old real estate investor who owns 9 properties in Alabama says you shouldn't sleep on the Birmingham market. He shares his top reasons why it's a great investment opportunity.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Real estate investor Stephen Yin says that Birmingham is an overlooked market. He admits to "kind of falling into real estate by accident," he told Insider. One of his friends from home reached out and asked if he'd ever considered investing in real estate. After doing some research, "I realized that Birmingham has one of the best real estate markets in the nation, from a returns perspective as well as from a barrier-to-entry perspective," he said. "I could still make money, but I can't make money in the way I want to make money."

☆ US Midterms 2022: 5 States Are Voting to Ban Slavery in Prisons
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Voters in Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, and Vermont will be voting on changing this legislation. The landmark 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified on December 6, 1865, officially abolished slavery but allowed it to continue as a punishment in prisons against convicted felons. For states in the former Confederacy, the loophole was a tool to maintain the dynamics of slavery, post-abolition, said AP. But in some states, including Alabama, inmates get paid nothing for their work. "For an entire generation, it put Black men and women back into slavery by incarcerating them and selling their labor to private corporations," said Chase.

☆ Low-cost airline Breeze is launching 19 new routes next year from $29 one-way as it beefs up its leisure network — see the full list
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Fares start at $99 one-way and will be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via Charleston or Richmond, depending on the day. Fares start at $99 one-way and will be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via Las Vegas. Fares start at $69 one-way and will be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via Orlando. Fares start at $29 one-way. Fares start at $89 one-way and be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via White Plains.

☆ An exclusive look at the 19-slide pitch deck a real-estate-investing startup aimed at millennials and Gen Zers used to raise a total of $9 million
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Fintor raised $6.2 million in October, bringing its total funding to $9 million. The fractional-real-estate firm caters to younger investors by making buy-ins low — as little as $5. Its CEO, Farshad Yousefi, walked Insider through the pitch deck Fintor used to raise the money. Backers including Public.com, Hustle Fund, 500 Global, and Graphene Ventures contributed $6.2 million to Fintor's latest funding round, bringing the total raised since 2021 to $9 million. Yousefi argued that investing in real estate via traditional means — like buying a home, getting a mortgage, and renovating it yourself — can turn off younger investors.

☆ I made $178,000 after flipping a website I bought for $52,000 last year. Here are the SEO strategy and tools I used to increase its value.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Pollyanna Brown | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Money wasn't my motivator, but I was monetizing themOnce I sold those businesses, I realized I needed a new source of consistent monthly income. To replace my monthly income, I dove deeper into content marketing by becoming more knowledgeable about certain topics and creating helpful content for people searching the internet. For the most part, I taught myself content marketing. The website was generating income, but it was clear to me that the seller was leaving money on the table. I knew that with minimal work, I could increase the income the site generated, so it made sense to buy it.

☆ My family and I got $10,000 to move from Portland, Oregon, to a small town in Alabama, and it was worth it: 'The grant gave us this vessel to help make our dreams come true'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-05 | by ( Robert Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Shannon Milliman, 42, and her family moved from Portland, Oregon, to Florence, Alabama, in 2021. The Remote Shoals program paid Milliman and other remote workers $10,000 to help them relocate. Moving from Portland, Oregon, to Florence, Alabama, during the pandemic pushed me in ways that I didn't expect. Portland, Oregon. Because I said yes to the improvisation of moving with the Remote Shoals program, it's caused other parts of my life to open up as well.

U.S. News & World Report releases a list of the best places to live in America every year. Its 2022 ranking for the best places to live looked at five metrics: job market, value, quality of life, desirability, and net migration. The best place to live in America is Huntsville, Alabama, followed by Colorado Springs, Colorado. In its ranking of the best places to live in America for 2022, U.S. News & World Report gathered data on these crucial components for more than 100 US cities. Keep reading to discover the 50 best places to live in America.

☆ Primul deținut executat în Statele Unite după ce obținuse o amânare din cauza pandemiei
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-01 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: ProfimediaPrimul deținut executat în Statele Unite după ce obținuse o amânare din cauza pandemieiUn bărbat condamnat pentru o triplă crimă deosebit de violentă a fost executat miercuri în statul american Texas, fiind primul deținut care a obţinut o amânare din cauza pandemiei. John Hummel, 45 de ani, a fost executat prin injecţie letală în penitenciarul Huntsville, iar decesul a fost pronunţat la ora locală 18:49. Inculpatul ar fi trebuit să fie executat pe 17 martie 2020, dar o curte de apel a respins termenul in extremis „având în vedere criza sanitară”. Judecătorii au subliniat că o execuţie necesită „resurse enorme”, zeci de gardieni, avocaţi, martori etc., existând riscul răspândirii COVID -19. După acest proces, toate execuţiile au fost suspendate luni de zile în restul ţării.

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