MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Twenty-five feature films and 10 reality television shows have been shot in Alabama since 2011, according to a press release sent out from the governor’s office Monday. “Governor Bentley has prioritized movie production in Alabama,” the release said. “The Alabama Film Office, a division of the Alabama Department of Commerce, works to […]

Former Arkansas governor and radio and television personality Mike Huckabee utilized Facebook on Monday to send targeted messages to individual states about his decision to leave Fox News to potentially pursue another run for the presidency. Here’s what he had to say to Alabama: Alabama: Yesterday was the last edition of Huckabee on the Fox […]

(Video above: Originally posted by the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, the video above was emailed to Troy University students last week, setting off an unexpected firestorm from an offended group of atheists.) A national atheists group is demanding an apology from Troy University chancellor Jack Hawkins, Jr. for sending an email to students that […]

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), just under 65,000 Alabamians acquired health insurance through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace set up under ObamaCare before the Dec. 15 deadline for coverage starting Jan. 1, 2015. 91 percent of those individuals will receive reduced premiums through taxpayer-funded financial assistance. The Obama Administration […]

For the first time in a decade and a half, Scott Beason, the longtime state legislator from the north Birmingham suburb of Gardendale, isn’t serving in public office. First elected to the Alabama Legislature at the age of 29, Beason served two terms in the House and two more in the Senate. He also ran […]

The federal food stamp program in Alabama (officially knows as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) has almost 20 percent more enrollees than Alabama’s K-12 public school system, according to an analysis of both programs. In 2014, Alabama’s monthly average SNAP enrollment was 902,073 and its estimated K-12 enrollment was 734,300, meaning there were […]

For three-quarters of a century (1927-2002), executions in Alabama were carried out using an electric chair dubbed “Yellow Mama,” a nickname it was given after being covered in the same paint used to stripe Alabama’s highways. “Mama” has been in storage since 2002 when legislation was passed giving prisoners the ability to opt for lethal […]

We’ve already rung in the new year here in the Yellowhammer State, but it looks like there’s one more thing to celebrate from 2014. Movoto, a real estate website well known for making research-based city-rankings, has named Birmingham its “Best City in America” for 2014, after compiling data from a wide variety of categories. Here’s […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – An Alabama World War II pilot who was missing for decades after his plane went down on Guadalcanal Island will finally be laid to rest this week with full military honors. Maj. Peyton Mathis, Jr., commander of the 44th Fighter Squadron, will be buried in his hometown of Montgomery, Ala. Saturday, January […]

As we approach the turn of another year, research says that about half of us are gearing up for a New Year’s resolution. And many of us are planning to make the same resolution we’ve tried — and failed — to implement multiple years before. Psychologist Peter Herman calls this “false hope syndrome.” “New Year’s […]

According to the Centers for Disease Control, “influenza-like illness” (ILI) is reaching epidemic proportions in Alabama and 21 other states around the country, including almost the entire Southeast. According to a CDC report, 28 percent of the specimens tested and reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance […]

An ESPN reporter asked University of Alabama linebacker Rashaan Evans what has been the best part of New Orleans, and his response horrified his teammates as they immediately considered what coach Saban’s reaction would be. “I’d probably say Bourbon Street’s probably been the best thing, with all the people and stuff like that,” Evans said. […]

1. ‘Lone Survivor’ Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s speech to the Bama football team will floor you A Marcus Luttrell speech with “Lone Survivor” clips and Alabama football highlights laid over the top of it lit up the Internet on Nov. 19. After originally being leaked on a file sharing site and presented as Luttrell’s speech […]

According to a recent study, 69 percent of seniors graduating from U.S. colleges in 2013 had student loan debt, often in the form of private loans, which are generally more costly than federal loans. The national student loan average last year was $28,400. The State of Alabama’s average student debt of $28,895—$495 more than the […]

Yahoo!’s Pat Forde recently made the trek down to Birmingham, Ala., the cradle of SEC Country, to find out for himself why Alabama and Auburn are so dang good at football. His conclusion, which he comes to early on in his lengthy article declaring the state of Alabama “the center of the college football universe,” […]

The most bizarre quasi-scandal of 2014 comes with just a few days left in the year as House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA1), the third highest ranking member of Congress, finds himself ensnared by revelations that he was the keynote speaker at an event hosted by a group founded by David Duke, a former Grand […]

Business Insider (BI) recently set out to find every state’s best diner. “The wait staff knows your name and order by heart. The coffee tastes like dirt some days, but you and your friends never seem to mind. And when your family comes into town for the holidays, you get excited to bring them to […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — As the Christmas holidays swung into full effect, justifiably drowning out most of the mundane news of the day, the Obama Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly released the results of it’s new, stricter clean air standards test. Dr. Mark Wilson, the Jefferson County Health Officer and CEO of the Jefferson County […]

If anyone asks you why the University of Alabama was named one of the United States’ “50 Most Beautiful College Campuses,” refer them to the video above. Here’s what thebestcolleges.org had to say about UA’s Tuscaloosa campus: The 1800 acre Alabama campus features many Greek Revival buildings. Several buildings (4) on the campus, including the […]

MOBILE, Ala. — Meeya Kim was tragically killed in a car accident on I-65 Thursday, Dec. 18, but her dog, who was riding in the car with her at the time of the accident, was mysteriously missing after being ejected from the vehicle. 700 miles away, the Kim family’s grief over the loss of Meeya […]

WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials are celebrating New Years early by touting a spike in government healthcare enrollment, and are rooting hard for more states, including Alabama, to expand their Medicaid programs under ObamaCare in early 2015. “As of October 2014, approximately 9.7 million additional Americans were enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP – a 17 […]

When I was elected to Congress last December, I vowed to hit the ground running from day one to make Southwest Alabama a better place to live, work and raise a family. In honor of the New Year, I wanted to take this opportunity to look back at some of the highlights from my first […]

Want to be an oilman? Go to Texas. Want to be a mathematical technician? Minnesota may be your best bet. Animal breeder? Take a look at Wisconsin. But if you want to work with metal and plastic, your dream job might just be waiting for you in Alabama. Alabama’s economy is cranking out metal and […]

DeAndre Dunn of Tuscaloosa, Ala., holds a lot of different titles at his current job at Hudson Auto Body — motor man, rotors and brakes man, even upholstery man. But one title he’s committed to never holding again is “inmate,” and he’s developed a simple formula for himself and others to make sure that title […]