WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2023: A former deputy sheriff with the Dallas County, Alabama, Sheriff's Office was sentenced today in the Southern District of Alabama to 12 and a half years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman while he was on duty. According to the superseding information and plea documents, on Jan. 30, 2020, Joshua Davidson, 33, while on duty as a Dallas County deputy sheriff, placed the victim in custo  more

ECLECTIC, Alabama, Aug. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration Region 4 issued the following news release: The Texas-based operator of an Eclectic manufacturing facility could have prevented a 20-year-old worker from suffering an amputation if the employer had followed required federal safety standards, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation determined. After Madix Inc. reported a March 23, 2023, employee injury, investigators with the department's  more