Center · Read · October 31, 2026
Oct 31 · A shooting near Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala., after the Magic City Classic football game kills one person and wounds eight others
Newsweek: 1 Dead, 9 Injured in Shooting After Alabama Football Game
Grade C (76/100). Article: the shooting, the victims' conditions, statements from Mayor Randall Woodfin and Chief Michael Pickett, and other Halloween weekend shootings
C: Gets a fact wrong.
- Gets a fact wrong (minus 24 points): headline '1 Dead, 9 Injured' while its own story says nine people were shot, one of them killed (eight wounded)
Splits: Article: the shooting, the victims' conditions, statements from Mayor Randall Woodfin and Chief Michael Pickett, and other Halloween weekend shootings
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