As racially-charged violence has swept the country in recent months, Alabama has been conspicuously quiet. The handful of demonstrations organized in Alabama’s largest cities have been peaceful, low-key affairs, and radical activists’ attempts to stoke racial tensions at the state’s flagship university sputtered. In Mobile, a black teenager who had apparently stolen a car was […]

LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. — In the wake of the latest police shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Sheriff Mike Blakely took to Facebook to vent. We are saddened by the recent senseless killings of our fellow officers in Dallas, Texas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I can no longer stand by silently as our brothers are murdered, […]

PHENIX CITY, Ala. — Two Lee County Sheriff’s deputies were denied service at a Phenix City, Alabama, Taco Bell Saturday night, leading to the cashier being fired. Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones told the Opelika-Auburn News the two officers initially thought it was a joke, before realizing the woman was serious. “They initially thought that […]

BATON ROUGE, La. — A lone gunman killed three police officers and wounded three others after opening fire at a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Sunday. The shooter has been identified as Gavin Eugene Long, a black male from Kansas City, Missouri, who just a handful of years ago was a Dean’s List student […]

At least 80 people were killed and another 100 injured Thursday when a large truck plowed into a crowd at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, the capital city of the French Riviera. According to first-hand accounts, the driver of the truck — reportedly a 31-year-old Muslim man from Tunisia — first shot a gun […]

(Video above: Linkin’ Bridge performs “Free Bird.”) Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Southern rock legends whose hit “Sweet Home Alabama” immediately became the Yellowhammer State’s unofficial anthem, had the “the most-requested song in the history of rock music” with “Free Bird,” but they probably never heard it performed quite like this. Louisville, Kentucky-based Linkin’ Bridge is a […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Governor Robert Bentley’s illicit affair with his former senior advisor, Rebekah Mason, has for months made him the subject of public scorn, and it now appears that it has made him the target of a grand jury investigation. According to court documents, multiple reports and corroborating Yellowhammer sources in Montgomery, the Alabama […]

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. — After months of speculation, the Obama administration has decided not to house illegal alien juveniles at two outlying airfields at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, located in Baldwin County, Alabama, Yellowhammer learned Thursday. “Military airfields in Southwest Alabama are not the place to house illegal migrant children, and I am glad […]

AUBURN, Ala. — An Auburn student was reportedly robbed Wednesday afternoon by a group of four violent criminals who police believe used features of the popular Pokémon Go game to lure their victim into a trap. Pokémon Go is an “augmented reality” game that inserts monsters — Pokémon — into the “real world” as seen […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — For the second time in as many months the Alabama abortion industry has received a boost from the judicial branch of the U.S. government. On Wednesday, liberal U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson issued a restraining order on two pro-life laws that were set to go into effect August 1 — one that […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday blocked the Obama administration’s plan to take money from Alabama and other Gulf states to help fund the president’s climate agenda in Alaska and other areas of the country. In 2006, Congress passed the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA), which created a revenue-sharing agreement […]

Alabama native and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice delivered a stirring prayer over the weekend during a church service at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in California. Rice, who was born and raised in Birmingham, addressed to racially-charged atmosphere sweeping the nation in the wake of multiple shootings, urging Americans of all colors to “race […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — One of Alabama’s most legendary business icons, Garry Neil Drummond, passed away Wednesday morning after months of heart issues and a recent cancer diagnosis. He was 78 years old. For 50 years Mr. Drummond oversaw an international business empire that frequently placed his company on the list of the world’s most valuable […]

WASHINGTON — An Alabama congressman has taken the lead on efforts to assist Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East as they flee from ISIS-controlled territories. U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL4), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced Tuesday he has secured “language in the House Appropriations Committee to provide targeted […]

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — An Alabama tea party leader on Sunday boarded a chartered Boeing 747 at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., bound for the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp (GITMO). Becky Gerritson, founder and president of the Wetumpka Tea Party, will spend the next several days observing hearings for Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi, […]

(Video above: “Seven Magic Words”) “It’s nice to have you in Birmingham.” What started as a slogan used to promote Birmingham in the 1950s has become a mantra for a city where the residents are so welcoming you’ll forget you’re not from ’round here. Those “seven magic words” that sum up The Magic City serve […]

It’s 8 p.m. on a Tuesday evening and it’s been one of those days — the kind where you didn’t realize until just now when your pre-teen daughter yelled “I’m hungry!” that no one in the family has eaten dinner and you have no plan. Nights like this usually end with the whole family either […]

PHOENIX, Ariz. — On Monday, June 27th, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch was preparing to depart from a Phoenix, Arizona, airport on a government aircraft. In what she later described as a “surprise,” she suddenly realized former President Bill Clinton had also boarded her plane. Under normal circumstances a former president popping in unannounced to […]

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — Two Alabamians are being charged with felony arson after failing to properly extinguish a small campfire that ultimately burned hundreds of acres of Colorado forrest to the ground. Jimmy Andrew Suggs, 28, and Zackary Ryan Kuykendall, 26, of Vinemont, Ala., reportedly started a small campfire on private property Saturday night. By […]

(Video above: Alabama woman videos herself touching a snake. It goes about as well as you’d expect.) “Hey, Mr. snake. You’re a long boy.” If the conversation had stopped there, most of us could probably relate. It’s not uncommon in many parts of Alabama to see a a Grey Ratsnake or an Eastern Garter Snake […]

WASHINGTON — Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has partnered with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to introduce the Thin Blue Line Act, which would enforce harsher penalties on individuals targeting police officers and first responders. Sessions worked closely with federal, state and local law enforcement officials for years as Alabama Attorney General and before that as a U.S. Attorney. The […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In the wake of Thursday’s Dallas police shootings, in which multiple police officers were killed or wounded by snipers who violently interrupted otherwise peaceful protests, many Alabamians are planning public expressions of support for local law enforcement. A Texan has developed the “Safe Harbor Initiative,” using the “thin blue line” as a […]

With racially-charged violence sweeping the nation and increasing concerns about anti-gun policies being advanced in Washington, D.C., Americans are purchasing firearms and obtaining concealed carry permits in record numbers. 13 million Americans are currently concealed carriers, including a skyrocketing number of women. Jefferson County, Alabama, for instance, is on track to issue almost 63% more […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Trump delegates to this month’s Republican National Convention are raising money in an effort to make sure the “regular folks” who are prepared to cast their ballot for the presumptive Republican nominee are not replaced by “elites” who may give their support to another candidate. “We are your average Alabamians,” the delegates […]