A top infectious disease doctor with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) told Yellowhammer News that a major new study published this week reinforces UAB’s stance that hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for patients hospitalized with the coronavirus. The comment was made by Dr. Paul Goepfert, MD, a professor in UAB’s Division of […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a warning Friday that all nursing home residents on Medicaid should receive their federal stimulus money in full. The Alabama Nursing Home Association (ANHA) responded that they had already taken steps to make sure that happened. “We are now beginning to receive a few reports of concern that some […]

A Mobile man rescued an elderly woman from a burning apartment building on Wednesday. The blaze, and Quinn Parrish’s heroics, were first reported by MyNBC15. Parrish described the moments before rushing to his aged neighbor’s aid, saying, “I felt the heat on the side of my face, I felt the heat on my arm.” Video […]

Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Saks) praised President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled strategic approach to China on Thursday. Rogers as the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee has an outsized role in policies dealing with the security and stability of the United States on the world stage. “I am proud that President Trump has laid […]

The Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce and local government leaders have teamed up to create a small business relief fund that will provide grants to small businesses in Montgomery negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The grants will be administered through the Chamber’s nonprofit foundation, and the pool of money to be given away is […]

MONTGOMERY — Governor Kay Ivey on Thursday announced an amended Safer-at-Home Order that will take effect Friday, May 22, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. and expire on Friday, July 3, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Ivey made the announcement in a press conference alongside State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris. The latest order further relaxes restrictions on […]

Storied Auburn football coach Pat Dye has tested positive for COVID-19 while in the hospital for kidney issues. He is resting comfortably and expected home soon. The news of Dye’s hospitalization and coronavirus diagnosis was first announced to the public by his home parish of Toccoa First United Methodist Church. Subsequent reporting on his condition […]

Three health centers across Alabama will be receiving grant money from the federal government to expand their telehealth offerings. Telehealth, connecting doctors and patients through online video chat software, has seen an increased focus during the coronavirus pandemic. “Lack of access to telehealth services has long been an issue for rural areas including my own […]

Alabama’s 2020 red snapper season begins Friday, and Yellowhammer News has compiled everything an Alabama angler needs to know. The season will take place each weekend beginning May 22 and concluding July 19. In 2020, for the first time, snapper can be caught on Mondays. The weekends during which snapper can be caught are defined […]

The Mercedes-Benz automotive manufacturing plant in Tuscaloosa County is suspending production due to a delay in receiving component parts from plants in Mexico. The news was first reported by Bloomberg News, which procured an internal company memo on the topic. The delay is expected to last around one week, and plant employees are being asked […]

The City of Fairfield, a small suburb west of Birmingham and east of Bessemer, filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday, citing millions in debt liabilities. The City will begin Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy proceedings at the federal bankruptcy court in Birmingham, per Bloomberg News. Fairfield Mayor Eddie Penny told the public that the City had been […]

Governor Kay Ivey highlighted Wednesday that Alabama will receive $11,946,730 in federal funds intended to relieve recent financial strains on the state’s fisheries and other seafood industry businesses. Part of the money, $3,299,821, is federal CARES Act funding that is designated to provide relief for seafood companies hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. Ivey also said […]

A family in Montgomery that has seen nine of their 10 kids enter college by age 12 is set to produce a 19-year-old lawyer. Parents Kip and Mona Lisa Harding, a couple who live in Alabama’s capital city, have 10 kids. So far, nine of them have entered college by age 12. Their youngest is […]

Alabama’s historic DeSoto Caverns will reopen to visitors on Thursday, May 21. “[T]his closure for the Caverns was its first time in thousands of years not to be experienced by people,” said Desoto Caverns president Joy Sorensen about the recent COVID-19-induced shutdown. The family business that owns and runs DeSoto Caverns says their team coordinated […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall this week joined a group of 15 state attorneys general in urging the federal district court in Washington, D.C. to grant the Department of Justice’s motion to drop the case against Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Michael Flynn. The Department of Justice’s attempt to drop the criminal charges against Flynn is currently […]

Tommy Tuberville’s campaign for Senate went up on television Monday with its first television advertising campaign of the runoff. The former Auburn coach’s spots will be airing for the next 10 days exclusively on Fox News in Alabama. The ad being aired will hit former Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his relationship with President Donald […]

A disclosure filed Monday shows former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions earned $108,000 for giving speeches in the months after he left the Trump administration. The largest fee, $24,000, was paid by Skybridge Capital, an investment firm owned by former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci. The largest single source of payments came from Young America’s […]

Governor Kay Ivey announced Monday the special election dates for the contest to replace former State Rep. April Weaver (R-Brierfield), who resigned from her job representing Alabama House District 49 to join the Trump administration. The deadline to qualify with the two major political parties is Tuesday, June 2 at 5:00 p.m. The special primary […]

The media buzz over ESPN’s 10-part documentary on Michael Jordan recently overlapped with University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban, who recently shared his thoughts on the sacrifices necessary to be a champion. One particular clip from “The Last Dance” appears to have caught Saban’s attention. The clip in question comes at the end […]

Brianna McAnnally, a woman from Sumiton, Alabama, has created a customer sticker pack of iconic Alabama locations during her COVID-19 quarantine downtime. McAnnally sells the stickers herself, via the website Etsy; one pack is $7 When not making stickers, McAnnally is normally a dance teacher at the Athletic Art Center in Jasper, while pursuing a […]

Governor Kay Ivey announced Friday that her administration has received proposals from two different construction groups on how they would build the three new men’s prisons planned by the state. A release from the state says the process now goes into a “confidential proposal evaluation period” that will last around six weeks. “I am confident […]

The heads of each university in the SEC will vote May 22 on whether or not schools should keep their athletic facilities shuttered beyond June 1, according to an ESPN report. Currently, SEC facilities are scheduled to reopen on June 1, and the question of whether it should be extended has become a hot topic […]

The state of Alabama has fallen behind the nation at large in responding to the U.S. Census. The census determines how many votes a state gets in the electoral college, how many representatives a state has in Congress, and how much federal funding a state gets for key public programs. The Census Bureau publishes response […]

A biomedical diagnostic company in Huntsville has launched a new COVID-19 test that promises to reduce exposure for front line healthcare workers. The company that developed the product, iCUBATE, is housed on the campus of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Alabama’s Rocket City. iCubate’s new test, from a consumer’s perspective, will function similarly to […]