https://youtu.be/zQxXkK8VTfc (Video Above: Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-AL2) delivers impassioned speech on U.S. House floor) WASHINGTON — Just hours after news broke that Planned Parenthood’s top doctor was caught on camera explaining how abortion industry professionals illegally sell the body parts of aborted babies, Alabama Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-AL2) took to the floor of the U.S. […]

WHAT’S GOING ON Alabama Governor Robert Bentley caught the entire Alabama political universe by surprise on Thursday by announcing he will call the state legislature into a Special Session set to begin on Monday. The Special Session itself comes as no surprise. When Bentley vetoed the legislature’s budget — which relied solely on cuts to […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on Thursday sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch urging the Department of Justice to end taxpayer-funded federal grants to “sanctuary cities” that ignore federal immigration laws. Shelby’s letter comes in the wake of the tragic killing of 32-year-old Kathryn “Kate” Steinle, who was shot in the […]

FORT RUCKER, Ala. — The United States Department of the Army announced Thursday its nationwide reduction of 40,000 troops by 2017 will include trimming its force at Fort Rucker by 186 soldiers. The six percent reduction at the wiregrass-area base is actually much lower than the 40 percent cut many had feared, and significantly less […]

Pruett’s Bar-B-Q is a well-known landmark on Rainbow Drive in Gadsden, Alabama. They’ve been serving up some of the finest barbecue in the state since 1976, which is really saying something in the barbecue-crazed Yellowhammer State. But in addition to their good eats, Pruett’s is also serving up timeless wisdom. On Wednesday night, State Sen. […]

During an interview on Yellowhammer Radio Tuesday, Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL5) said he believes more Americans have lost their lives at the hands of illegal aliens than were killed during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. “(T)his is based on judgement — there are no hard data to back it up — but if […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is now listed among a group of 15 states urging Congressional leaders to protect the tax-exempt status of religious organizations in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling. In a letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Alabama Attorney […]

RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. — According to police, Ramiro Ajualip, a 27-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant living in Alabama, confessed to raping a ten-year-old Alabama girl in March of 2015. But while the story received some local coverage at the time, the national media is now bringing renewed attention to the attack as a result of controversial comments […]

It’s not very often that staunchly conservative Alabama follows the lead of a liberal city like Chicago, but that appears to be exactly what is happening with a tax hike being unilaterally pushed by the Alabama Department of Revenue, without approval from the Legislature. Fusion News explains what is happening in Chicago: A ruling by […]

Alabama’s General Fund Budget has been the greatest point of contention among state officials over the past six months. Facing an estimated General Fund shortfall of over $200 million, Gov. Robert Bentley rolled out a $541 million tax increase package. Legislators answered with numerous plans ranging from tax hikes and gambling expansions, to spending cuts […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The FBI has established “command centers” at its field offices in Birmingham and Mobile in response to the heightened terrorist threat level going into Independence Day weekend. The FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland security have also issued a joint intelligence bulletin urging law enforcement agencies around the country to be on […]

SHELBY COUNTY, Ala. — Alabama State Sen. Cam Ward (R-Alabaster) has been arrested for driving under the influence, according to multiple reports. The Shelby County Sheriffs office says he remains in custody after being arrested early Wednesday afternoon. “Senator Ward made a mistake,” Senate Majority Leader Greg Reed (R-Jasper) told WSFA. “We encourage him to […]

WASHINGTON — In a rare moment of pushback against political correctness, the Pentagon announced it will not rename any military installations named after Confederate generals, including Alabama’s Fort Rucker. “Every Army installation is named for a soldier who holds a place in our military history,” Brig. Gen. Malcolm B. Frost said in a statement. “Accordingly, […]

WASHINGTON – The Obama Administration on Tuesday announced another deadline extension in its Iran nuclear negotiations, leading Alabama Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-AL2) to assert that it may be time for the United States to walk away from the negotiating table. “The fact that we keep extending the deadline tells you all you need to know […]

Summertime is here, and as the temperature rises, household energy costs tend to rise right along with it. In an effort to help Alabamians keep their costs down, Alabama Power on Monday released five summertime energy-saving tips. 1. Set your thermostat at 78 degrees or higher, and use ceiling fans along with air conditioning to […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has assembled a team of legal experts to assess the religious liberty implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, Yellowhammer learned Monday. In a 5-4 decision this past week, the Court struck down same-sex marriage bans across the country, effectively creating a constitutional […]

Governor Bentley, As you are aware, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday legalized so-called same-sex marriage in all fifty states, a decision by a committee of five unelected lawyers so profoundly undemocratic that Justice Antonin Scalia declared the Court a “threat to American democracy.” In a friend of the court brief you submitted in March, […]

This past Wednesday morning, workers at the Alabama Capitol took down the poles where for years various Confederate flags had flown. That afternoon, Gov. Robert Bentley announced that Google, the world’s second most valuable company, would invest $600 million to bring a new data processing center to a tiny town in Alabama’s northeast corner. The […]

STEVENSON, Ala. — Google, Inc., the world’s second most valuable company, announced Wednesday that it will invest $600 million to locate a massive data processing center in north Alabama, one of only 14 in the world. The project is expected to create 75-100 jobs. For context, Google’s $600 million investment in Jackson County matches the […]

Jordan Thompson is an Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army and a University of Alabama graduate currently attending Samford’s Cumberland School of Law. On Tuesday, Thompson decided he’d had all he could stand of people on his “Facebook newsfeed complaining about every possible thing,” and he decided to unleash an epic post that pretty much […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Governor Robert Bentley on Tuesday announced a newly created hall of fame to honor Alabama’s love of barbecue. The Alabama Barbecue Hall of Fame will include 29 of the state’s restaurants that have been open for at least 50 years. “The State of Alabama has become a destination for barbecue lovers […]

Susannah Mushatt Jones was born in 1899 in rural Lowndes County, Alabama, about an hour southwest of Montgomery. The Alabama Crimson White football team was 3-1 that year, its seventh year of existence, finishing third in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association behind Sewanee and Vanderbilt and just ahead of Tennessee (some things never change). Auburn […]

Just days after a gunman killed nine churchgoers participating in a prayer service at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina in a racially-motived attack, Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler took to Facebook to make a plea to people of faith in Alabama: Arm yourselves. “Church attendees should pack,” said the first-term auditor. “Calling 911 […]

Students at Schmid Elementary on Chicago’s South Side were tasked with developing a presentation on a college or university of their choice. Quinlan Matthew’s class of second graders chose Auburn University, and they absolutely nailed it. Donning homemade Auburn t-shirts and cardboard Tiger hats, the students recited facts about their chosen school one after another. […]