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Property · Bessemer

Man Killed in Railcar Workplace Incident at U.S. Steel in Fairfield

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The Bessemer man was riding on a railcar when it was sideswiped by another railcar.See the Story

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Alabama theme park ranked as second most affordable in country: Who beat us?

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Alabama Adventure & Splash Adventure took the No. 2 spot in a study by HomeToGo, a company that rents vacation properties.Read Article

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Beloved Bessemer Cajun restaurant reopens after 5 years: ‘Today is a new day’

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A Bessemer Cajun restaurant shuttered for more than five years reopened this week to the delight of diners.Read Article

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The Darter Fish and the Data Center - Inside Climate News

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A newly identified species is already in danger of extinction. A proposed massive data center in Alabama would “nuke” its habitat, scientists say. By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier IsomBESSEMER, Ala.—A newly identified species of fish in central Alabama is already endangered due to human development, experts say. Now, plans to build a massive hyperscale data center could turn an already dire situation into an extinction event.Species · BessemerSee the Story

[Opinion] Yet Another Darter-fish Invented to Stop Development

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Opinion by Kip Hansen Way down in Bessemer, Alabama, the development of a huge data center is being fought with a time-tried and proven tactic :  invent a new species…Opinion · BessemerRead Article

Dr. Herman Taylor: Bessemer Native Becomes a Force for Black Health

By Michael Merschel | American Heart Association News Dr. Herman Taylor Jr.’s resume has many of the things you’d expect from a career spent in the loftiest reaches of the medical field: Ivy League degrees. Awards from his peers. His name on hundreds of studies in prestigious medical journals. Taylor has touched lives around the world as a cardiologist and through projects such as the Jackson Heart Study, the largest single-site study of Black p…Bessemer, Alabama · BessemerRead Article

Proposed Bessemer data center could threaten endangered fish species

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Residents opposed to a proposed data center in Bessemer, Ala., including Ron Morgan (center left) and Mary Rosenboom (center right) hold an image of the newly identified Birmingham darter. (Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News)This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. BESSEMER — A newly identified species of…Bessemer, Alabama · BessemerRead Article

McCalla woman hit, killed while standing outside her vehicle after interstate crash

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A McCalla woman was hit and killed while she was standing outside her vehicle on Interstate 59/20 in Bessemer. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Amanda Lee Brulez. She was 41.Bessemer, Alabama · BessemerRead Article

Alabama inmate serving life for shooting at someone in 1982 dies in prison infirmary

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A state inmate serving life without parole died Thursday at William Donaldson Correctional Facility. James Charles Bishop, 69, was found unresponsive in the prison infirmary at 9:55 p.m. Thursday. He was pronounced dead at 10:15 p.m.Bessemer, Alabama · BessemerRead Article

Bessemer Fire Department operational, members reinstated

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The Bessemer Volunteer Fire Department is back to being operational after some of its former members were reinstated.Bessemer, Alabama · BessemerRead Article

Alabamians want answers about a four-million-square-foot data center coming to their backyards

Read the full story from Inside Climate News. Residents in and around Bessemer are furious over Project Marvel, a plan to build a 4.5-million-square-foot data processing facility on 700 acres of wooded land. Public officials have been sworn to silence.Bessemer, Alabama · BessemerRead Article

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