Richard “Dick” Spencer from Sylacauga is bishop of the U.S. Military Diocese. He supervises 617 military chaplains in 171 countries. Recently he announced to his Sylacauga High Class of ’69 that he is in Washington’s Walter Reed Hospital battling Parkinson’s Disease and prostate cancer. Spencer, an active member of his unusually-active high school class, made […]

Christian leaders from throughout Alabama gathered in Montgomery Wednesday for a prayer rally on the steps of the Alabama State House. Afterwards, they held a lunch meeting at the nearby RSA Plaza. One key item at the lunch meeting was the naming of the “Dan Ireland Salt and Light Award.” It goes annually to Alabama’s […]

Alabama is used to having visitors to its Gulf. This visitor is unusual. “Ernst,” a 1,000-pound sub-adult female great white shark, has pinged on its tracking device in Alabama’s Gulf waters since January 11. The 12-foot female shark had pinged four miles southeast of Dauphin Island, south of Fort Morgan in Baldwin County. It continues […]

Each year, Christian leaders and citizens convene a prayer rally on the steps of the Alabama State House early in the new annual legislative session. The 2026 prayer rally will be held outside the State House building on Wednesday, January 21 from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on this second week of the 2026 regular […]

The design, engineering and right-of-way acquisitions have all been done. Now, the construction begins. It’s a $14 million road improvement on one of Mobile’s busiest commercial and residential road sections. The “Dauphin Street Corridor” runs along Dauphin Street east and west of the intersection with Interstate 65. The new improvements will run on Dauphin Street […]

Alabama has lost a Christian leader and a political activist. John Giles died Saturday at age 70 in his home in Luverne. He had surgery last week for an aortic aneurysm. Giles made a difference. He was a banker. A political kingmaker. A governor’s cabinet member twice. A pro-life activist. A candidate for Lt. Governor. […]

Longtime Alabama high school football coach and Hall of Famer Jimmy Perry died at age 68 on January 10 following a lengthy battle with cancer. Coach Perry’s career spanned 44 years, during which he became a respected figure in Alabama football. Perry served as head coach from 2012 until his retirement in 2023 at Montgomery’s Saint James School. […]

Two Alabama lawmakers are teaming up to lessen the amount of mud spewed into Mobile Bay by ship channel dredging from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. State Rep. Rhett Marques (R-Enterprise) and State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Josephine) will hold a press conference at the Fairhope Municipal Pier today to announce the legislation. The bill […]

Colleagues in the Alabama House of Representatives have had to say goodbye twice to former State Rep. Howard Sanderford. Once, when he announced he would not run again for a seventh term in 2022, and now, as he died Wednesday in Huntsville at age 90. Sanderford was always known as one of the kinder, gentler […]

President Donald Trump has announced plans to expand the U.S. military, particularly the Navy, and the Gulf Coast, as well as Alabama itself, is expected to play a major role in building new ships. The Trump administration has pitched a “Golden Fleet” to protect U.S. interests in a changing world. Part of that fleet, according […]

With 0.6 seconds left, Auburn hit a miraculous shot to seemingly beat Texas A&M — but after a review, the game was reversed, and the Tigers fell 90-88. Things started getting strange with 13 minutes to go in the Texas A&M at Auburn men’s basketball game. After a back-and-forth first half, Auburn had built up […]

One of the many duties of Alabama’s Secretary of State is to be the chief election official for the state. As part of that responsibility, the secretary manages the vital state voter rolls. Secretary Wes Allen announced Tuesday that he and his staff identified 186 noncitizens registered to vote in Alabama, using the United States Citizenship […]

A New Year in Alabama brings a new leader against domestic violence. The Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ACADV) announced that effective January 1 their new Executive Director will be Gena Richardson, longtime non-profit leader and advocate. She is a licensed mental health therapist and former state director of The Arc of Alabama. The official […]

The game had the intensity and excitement of an NCAA Final Four. The University of Alabama at Birmingham traveled to Tampa to take on American Conference foe, the University of South Florida. UAB overcame a host of obstacles to win 109-106 after two overtimes. They got 11 points behind with only five minutes left in […]

On the eve of New Year 2026, a meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida. Leadership of America’s evangelical Christian community and Jewish leaders journeyed to Palm Beach to plan about defending America, Israel, and the world against radical Islamists. They were joined by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They were also joined by Travis […]

Saturday marked the start of SEC play, and it began great for Alabama — but not so good for perennial power Kentucky. The Wildcats jumped off to a 5-0 lead. Alabama fans were reminded of Indiana jumping out to an early 17-0 lead over Bama in the Rose Bowl. The Hoosiers held and extended that […]

Judge Gil Self was sentenced to 12 years in prison after having been found guilty last month of 17 of 18 charges. A Lauderdale County jury had rendered verdicts after three weeks of trial in November. Self was sitting in the defendant’s chair as the accused in the same courtroom where he had sat for […]

A huge number of Alabamians do not make New Year’s resolutions. They need to take a look at this one. It’s different from any resolutions they may have seen, and it can be difference-making. Many who make New Year’s resolutions do not sustain them. By January’s end, they have returned to their old ways. Health […]

Some of the faces are always new. They’ve wanted to come here at least once. Other familiar faces come every New Year’s Day and have been coming for decades. Some are local, but many are from out of state. A shrinking number of the oldsters, aged 80s and 90s, knew him. They are all here […]

It’s a long way from Homewood to Hollywood. That’s essentially the trip that the Homewood, Alabama High School Patriots Band made this week. The 375-member band is marching in the 2026 Rose Parade. The eyes of the nation will be on the Pasadena parade and the Patriot band on New Year’s Day. The Patriot Band […]

The Zoghby family name is a well-known name in Mobile. One of the family matriarchs has died at age 90. Cecilia Theresa Zoghby had a visitation and Rosary on Monday December 29 at 5 p.m. and a funeral Mass at 1:30 p.m. on December 30 in Mobile. In the cathedral where she was memorialized, Cecilia […]

While 22 states have had residents sickened with salmonella, some after eating raw oysters, Alabama is not one of those states. A December 23 report issued by the Center for Disease Control stated that 64 people have been infected with the disease. The situation is referred to as an “outbreak” in many news media and […]

From Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama to Nashville and Waylon Jennings’s Waylors to Christmas music with Lynette Dove, Jerry ‘Jigger’ Bridges has written, produced and played a broad spectrum of music genres over the decades. On December 6, 2025, his bronze star in Muscle Shoals was unveiled. He was already an inductee of the […]

A homemade video shows former U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) on the Alabama-Georgia state line. He explains his very first issue in his newly-announced campaign for Governor in the 2026 election: Legalizing the lottery in Alabama. Alabama’s four surrounding states – Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida – all have legal lotteries and are members […]