Mark your calendars people! While we are just four weeks into the 2017 season, the SEC released 2018 football schedules on Tuesday, highlighting several exciting SEC matchups. The Auburn Tigers’ schedule is no exception! Auburn will open its 2018 season in the new Mercedes-Benz stadium in Atlanta for the 2018 Chick-Fil-A kickoff game. The Tigers […]

The Jefferson County Commission has announced that it is giving a surplus of $69 million to the Jefferson County School System. According to the Birmingham Business Journal, the county has recently refinanced $385 million in school construction debt, which created the surplus. The county is set to direct a total of $87 million to area schools over […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has announced that he has joined a coalition of 40 other state attorneys general seeking information from manufacturers of prescription opioids. The coalition is another step in the multi-state investigation into the impending nationwide opioid epidemic. The attorneys general served Civil Investigative Demands on several opioid manufacturers, including Endo, Janssen, […]

Auburn begins SEC competition this week as the Tigers travel to Missouri for yet another Tigers vs. Tigers matchup. The game is set to kickoff at 6:30 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPNU. So far, Auburn has not been the well-rounded, dominating team that many fans expected going into the season. In fact, whenever […]

Thompson High School defensive tackle Mackie McNeal is turning heads from schools all over the SEC and beyond. The three-star recruit has been the anchor to a dominating Warrior defense that has led the team to a successful 3-0 start to the 2017 season. According to Scout.com, Thompson hasn’t had more than five regular season wins […]

Mobile, Al. – On Friday, September 15, Austal delivered its sixth littoral combat ship to the United States Navy. LCS 12, the future USS Omaha, will be the navy’s tenth littoral combat ship and the first of two that Austal will deliver this year. In a news release from Austal’s website, President Craig Perciavalle said, “They’re […]

Auburn Police have arrested two employees of First Transit, the operator of Auburn University’s Tiger Transit bus system, on charges of rape and sodomy. Tony Martin Patillo (51) and James Don Johnson, Jr. (32) were arrested in relation to a sexual assault that occurred late Friday night on a Tiger Transit bus operated by the […]

The University of Alabama honored a legend in Civil Rights history on Friday, as it unveiled the Autherine Lucy Foster Historic Marker. The ceremony held on the lawn of Graves Hall highlighted several keynote speakers, including UA President Stuart R. Bell and distinguished alumna Marian Accinno Loftin. Bell stressed the impact of Foster’s legacy on […]

A picture taken at a Robertsdale High School football pep rally on Friday has stirred up quite a storm on social media. The picture shows a student holding a sign that says “Put the Panic Back in Hispanic.” The photo has sparked outrage among some. According to ABC 33/40, Jennifer Vazquez, a senior at Robertsdale, called […]

Auburn’s backup quarterback, Sean White, was arrested Sunday morning on charges of public intoxication. White (21) was arrested near downtown Auburn just hours after the Tigers’ victory against Mercer, around 2:45 a.m. According to CBS Sports, White had just finished serving a two game suspension for undisclosed reasons. White was dismissed from the team Monday morning […]

Auburn University has named Mickey Dean the new head coach of Auburn Tigers Softball. Auburn Director of Athletics Jay Jacobs announced on Thursday that the former James Madison coach will be making his way to coach on the plains. According to Auburn Athletics, Dean is highly regarded across the nation for his unprecedented knack for […]

According to The Washington Examiner, a new poll indicates that Alabama’s senate race could come down to a photo finish. The poll has Roy Moore leading Luther Strange by only one percentage point, 41 percent to 40 percent. Previous polls have shown Moore with a more larger lead. The RealClearPolitics average shows Moore on top with 44.4 percent, […]

The U.S. House of Representatives adopted an amendment this week that would block federal funding for day care centers with a history of injury or death due to safety violations. The amendment was proposed by Alabama Congresswoman Terri Sewell, in the wake of the death of 5-year-old Kamden Johnson – the Alabama boy who died […]

Jefferson County Commissioner David Carrington withdrew from the Alabama Governor’s race on Wednesday. According to WBRC, Carrington released the following statement: After prayerful consideration, I’ve decided it’s time for me to end my campaign for Governor. My six-month journey has been fascinating – one I will never forget or regret.  I’ve learned so much about our state, […]

Governor Kay Ivey announced on Wednesday that an Indiana-based manufacturing company, Autocar, will invest $120 million to build a plant in Alabama to manufacture heavy duty cab-over-engine trucks. According to Made in Alabama, the manufacturing operation will be located in an existing one million square-foot complex in Center Point and Birmingham. It is expected to employ 746 […]

Thrillist has compiled a list of the best living actors who grew up in each state in the country. While most of today’s actors eventually make their way to California to chase their dreams, they can’t escape their homegrown roots. Thrillist attempted to assign actors to their respective states based on where they spent the majority of their […]

According to Made in Alabama, Georgia-Pacific announced Wednesday that it plans to build a $100 million lumber production facility in Talladega. The new state of the art facility will employ over 100 full-time employees with an annual payroll of over $5 million. It will be located at the company’s old plywood mill that closed in 2008. […]

A Tuscaloosa woman was struck in the head with a hammer outside of a grocery store on Monday. According to the Tuscaloosa Police Department, the 53-year old woman was loading groceries into her car when a man approached her and grabbed her purse. When she refused to let go of her belongings, the suspect hit […]

Auburn enters the third week of college football with its homecoming game Saturday afternoon. The Tigers will face the Mercer Bears and hope to have an opportunity to work out the kinks that were exposed against Clemson last week. Auburn suffered its first lost of the season to the No. 3 Clemson Tigers, with one […]

On Saturday, Ginny Shaver, a lifelong conservative Republican and community activist, announced her candidacy for the Alabama House of Representatives District 39. District 39 includes all of Cherokee County, the city of Piedmont in Calhoun County, and portions of Dekalb and Cleburne Counties. Shaver made the announcement in her hometown of Leesburg Day in front […]

(Montgomery) – Eunises Llorca-Menses (30) of Naples, Florida was found guilty by a federal jury for her role in a multi-state scheme to steal debit and credit card information from gas pumps using skimming devices. A. Clark Morris, acting U.S. Attorney General for the Middle District of Alabama and Steve Marshall, Attorney General for the […]

Three Auburn football players are proving they can soar like eagles on and off the field. Punter Ian Shannon, offensive lineman Nick Brahms, and kicker Anders Carlson are all majoring in professional flight. The fact that they are teammates provides a little competition, as each pushes to study harder and fly longer than his teammate. […]

A 9-year-old boy is proving that generosity comes in all shapes and sizes. According to The Weather Channel, Landon Routzong was getting lunch at a Chick-Fil-A in Troy on Friday, when he noticed that the car in front of them had a Florida license plate. Landon had been wanting to help the evacuees from Hurricane Irma […]

It has been five months since Kay Ivey assumed the office of Governor of Alabama, leaving the state without a Lieutenant Governor. With that empty seat, some lawmakers are exploring the possibility of changing the Lt. Governor’s role. According to the Decatur Daily, Senator Gerald Dial (R-Lineville), has said that he will sponsor a constitutional amendment […]