WBRC's On Your Side Safety Check dives into the announcement that Governor Kay Ivey awarded $3.5 million in grants to promote highway safety in Alabama.
There are new questions about whether seatbelts are necessary on school buses after eight high school students were hurt when their school bus crashed with a tractor-trailer hauling cars in Birmingham.
While violent crime is up seven percent across the city, homicides are down about seven percent compared to this time last year, according to BPD crime numbers.
“Not knowing what applications your children are using to communicate with others, not knowing the slang they’re using in those communications, it’s the same as not knowing where your children are after midnight,” said Jay Town.
WBRC FOX6 News is On Your Side and getting answers from an infectious diseases expert about some viral confusion over a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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