A nationwide culinary competition for NASA announced its top 10 finalists this week and two Alabama teams made the list. The teams, from The Huntsville Center for Technology and Hewitt-Trussville High School, will compete in designing a dish to send to astronauts living on the International Space Station. The NASA HUNCH Culinary Challenge finals will […]

There was a time when one out of every eight pairs of socks sold around the world was made in Fort Payne, Alabama. Sadly, globalization, cheap foreign labor, free-trade agreements, and the 2008 financial crisis shut down all but a handful of the Sock Capitol’s 120-plus sock mills. But Alabama native and second-generation sock maker […]

Alabama’s own space archeologist may have discovered a new Viking site in North America that would rewrite history. Sarah Parcak, researcher and professor of archeology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, recently worked with a team that discovered what could be the first new Norse site in North America in over fifty years. The […]

(Video above: Congressman Bradley Byrne demands Secretary of Defense Ash Carter release strategy to defeat ISIS) WASHINGTON – Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL1), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, on Thursday said the Obama administration’s newly released plan to defeat the so called Islamic State is so poorly done it is “insulting.” In the […]

PICKENS COUNTY, Ala. — A husband and wife that taught at the same school have both been accused of having inappropriate relations with students. James Franklin “Jamie” Parker III was charged with “school employee engaging in a sex act with a student under 19” just two days after his wife, Charli Parker, was arrested for […]

Patients at UAB’s Intensive Care Unit have started to see a different breed of visitors in the hospital over the past few weeks. A new project, started by UAB Nursing grad student Meredith Palmer, brings therapy dogs to ICU patients. Palmer started the project to see what effects the dogs had on patients and staff […]

In the great Alabama migration, more residents are moving to the edges of the state. Other areas have not been so lucky. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the populations of Baldwin County, Madison County, and Lee County are all rapidly growing. In fact, these three counties have almost as much growth as the next […]

The U.S. government is basically keeping the state of Alabama afloat, according to a new study researching which states are the most reliant on federal dollars to pay their bills. Personal finance site WalletHub has released an in-depth analysis of the Most and Least Federally Dependent States of 2016, and Alabama came in as the […]

Harper Lee passed away earlier this year at the age of 89, but death has not stopped the beloved Alabama author from doing what pretty much everyone else does these days: comment on Donald Trump. Back in the summer of 1990, Ms. Lee was staying at Trump’s Taj Mahal hotel in Atlantic City. The author […]

A group of liberal students at the University of Alabama-Huntsville is not happy with the university’s choice for commencement speaker this spring, but their attempts to force the university to make a change are being rebuffed. After hearing that U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) had been tapped to deliver the commencement speech at UAH’s graduation […]

SELMA – “Hi-Ho, Sliver! Away! … as long as we change your diaper first” The city of Selma is doubling down to make sure horses wear diapers in public. In December of 2013, the city council adopted an ordinance saying that anyone walking or riding a horse down a public street had to fit the […]

(Video Above: Decatur-made rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The International Space Station is getting fresh supplies and new toys, thanks to a rocket built in Alabama. On Tuesday night, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket left Cape Canaveral, Florida for the ISS carrying 7,500 pounds of food and […]

The 1st Foundation, an Alabama-based non-profit that helps find homes for retired military dogs, is holding a fundraiser this weekend at Cahaba Brewing Company in Birmingham. On Saturday, March 26, 1st Foundation will be at the new Cahaba Brewery facility from 5:00-9:00 pm. In a statement, 1st Foundation said, “We are grateful for this opportunity […]

Apparently our moon isn’t in right-way up, at least according to one Alabama scientist. Dr. Richard Miller of the University of Alabama at Huntsville is part of a team of scientists that believes they discovered the moon flopped over on its side a few million years ago. The team was originally looking for water on […]

BRUSSELS – The world came to a halt earlier this week as another city was crippled by a terrorist attack. At least 34 people were killed and over 170 people were wounded in an attack at a subway station and airport in Brussels, Belgium. As the rest of the world watched their television and computer […]

Fortune, the famed multinational business magazine, wants its audience to know what college football programs — especially those in the SEC — have known for a long time: Nick Saban is one of the world’s best leaders. Saban is ranked No. 11 this year in the publication’s annual list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders. […]

WASHINGTON — A 10-year-old Alabama boy who already inspired the Alabama legislature to take action to help individuals suffering from terminal illnesses has managed to repeat the impressive feat, this time in the United States Congress. Gabe Griffin, a boy fighting a rare form of muscular dystrophy, visited Washington, D.C. with his family this week […]

As President Barack Obama caps an unprecedented two-day trip to Cuba, poultry farmers in Alabama are anxious to ramp up their business relationship with “a familiar, hungry, and very convenient market,” according to a report by Bloomberg Business. Cuba is already the fifth-largest export market for U.S. poultry producers, with farmers from Alabama, Georgia, and […]

For many people, just the thought of running a half marathon is enough to make us physically exhausted. But one Auburn grad has run 50 half marathons in the past five years – one in each state in the nation. Ashley Ahner completed her 50th half marathon this past weekend at Auburn’s “Finish on the […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A major high-speed fiber Internet expansion is coming to the Magic City. Southern Light, a Mobile-based provider of fiber optic broadband Internet originally announced last summer that it would bring 120 miles of fiber optic cables to Birmingham. That original agreement has been expanded to 500 miles of cable that will bring […]

In a disturbing trend, “The Walking Dead” is jumping off of the small screen and into real-life parks and neighborhoods in Alabama’s neighboring states. Several southeastern states — most notably Florida — have recently seen “unprecedented” cases of overdoses from spice, a type of synthetic marijuana. The Florida cities of Tampa, Clearwater, and St. Petersburg […]

DOTHAN, Ala. — Peanut fans (not the Charlie Brown variety) better be hungry, because there’s about to be a lot more peanuts out there with nowhere to go. According to a white paper released last month by the National Center for Peanut Competitiveness, Alabama and other peanut-producing states are expected to produce more peanuts in […]

WASHINGTON — Alabama congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL4) has been trying to roll back Michelle Obama’s school lunch initiative for years, and he now has a large but often overlooked constituency on his side: the children who actually have to eat those lunches. Politico recently released a video of elementary school students giving their opinions on […]

Naming things can be stressful, especially when the thing you’re naming is a human child and will carry that name for his or her entire life. Many people probably invoke Shakespeare when coming up with names, asking, “What’s in a name?” Baby names can come from a wide variety of sources. Maybe you name your […]