DCH officials are in the process of training its employees throughout all of its hospitals on how to take care of patients with Ebola-like symptoms. Care will be provided in two equipped ICU rooms by a team of doctors and other medical workers that specialize in infectious disease control.

Yesterday, Walmart in Northport was evacuated amid a bomb threat, but after further investigation, officials said there was no reason to believe a bomb was in the store.

Yesterday, firefighters were called to the Cypress Creek Landfill, where they spent many hours containing a fire, which burned three thousand to five thousand square feet. No homes or businesses were evacuated as a result of the fire.

A Montgomery County Circuit judge has temporarily banned Rev. Juan McFarland from the pulpit and ordered him to turn in his church keys and his church-owned Mercedes.  McFarland previously confessed to having sex with church members and neglecting to tell them he had AIDS.

The National Weather Service says the upcoming winter might be cooler and wetter than normal with as much of a 50 percent chance that temperatures will be well below average in Alabama.

FBI Director James Comey says encryption efforts are a bad thing and that new laws are needed to allow law enforcement to intercept communications at a time of advancing technology. He warns that the push by technology companies to encrypt smartphone data and operating systems could lead to justice being thwarted.

The Clowns of America International is speaking out against "American Horror Story: Freak Show," which it says is perpetuation an evil clown stereotype.

 

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