Drew Hawkins
Stories
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A new summer reality: hospitals and ERs see more parents with heat-related illness
With dangerously high temperatures across the country, hospitals are seeing more people with potentially deadly heat illness. A southern city is coping with what may be the new summer medical reality.
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Why haven't Kansas and Alabama — among other holdouts — expanded access to Medicaid?
Only 10 states have not joined the federal program that expands Medicaid to people who are still in the "coverage gap" for health care
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Shooting in Birmingham, Ala., leaves at least 4 dead, dozens injured
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe hears the latest on the shooting from Gulf States Newsroom reporter Drew Hawkins.
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Dozens of casualties after pickup truck plows into a crowd on Bourbon Street
The horrific attack in New Orleans consisted of the driver crashing through police barricades as officers fired at the vehicle. Ten people were killed and 30 injured. The driver remains at large.
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Investigators piece together a motive in New Orleans in New Year's Day attack
Fifteen people were killed after a pickup plowed into a crowd of revelers in New Orleans' French Quarter early Wednesday morning.
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A father talks about losing his 18-year-old son in the New Orleans attack
Kareem Badawi just finished his first semester at the University of Alabama, where was studying engineering. His father Belal Badawi says he was an 18 year old full of life.
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Cost of securing events in New Orleans rises after deadly New Year's Day attack
Carnival season is in full swing in New Orleans. The cost of securing parades has become more expensive for organizers since the deadly New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14 people.
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Judge says Alabama can't charge those who help people get abortions in other states
A federal judge ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute people who cross state lines to help someone get abortion care.
