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On Wednesday afternoon, Congressman Gary Palmer (AL-6) was overwhelmingly elected to chair the Republican Policy Committee (RPC), which is the fifth...
According to a report by WMC Action News, a tour bus traveling from Huntsville crashed in northwestern Mississippi on Wednesday, resulting in two deaths...
Police say an Alabama man threw hot sauce on a 73-year-old store clerk during a holdup. The Opelika-Auburn News reports that police in the east Alabama town of Valley arrived at a convenience store Sunday morning to find the clerk in pain with orange liquid on her face and in her eyes.
Congresswoman Terri Sewell (AL-7) so far has remained silent on whether she will support House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for Speaker when the...
Former Auburn University linebacker Tre’ Williams spoke to members of Mobile’s Cottage Hill Christian High School football team before their first playoff game last Friday. “[T]his is a big moment. Y’all have never hosted a playoff game here, so congratulations,” Williams told the players. “You didn’t get this far, just to get this far. Don’t […]
U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama Madeline Hughes Haikala on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit from four Alabama A&M students and one...
Senator Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) confirmed on Tuesday that he will run for re-election to the United States Senate in 2020, according to a tweet by...
On Tuesday, the 77-member Alabama House Republican Caucus re-elected state Rep. Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) as House Majority Leader and elected...
The 77 members of the Alabama House Republican Caucus on Tuesday unanimously nominated Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) for another term leading the...
In a recent interview on Talk 99.5's "The Matt & Aunie Show," Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-5) discussed the ramifications of the Democrats retaking...
HOOVER - The good deeds of one ordinary Alabama police officer served as a shining light on an otherwise dreary fall morning on Tuesday, with hope...
The Garden Room Restaurant in Huntsville wants former U.S. Attorney General and Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to return to the Yellowhammer State.
In a press release on Monday, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) announced that Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has been...
Alabama-native Torrie Miller Matous, Congresswoman Martha Roby's (AL-1) chief of staff, is moving on to an impressive new job in Washington, D.C.
Secretary of State John Merrill commented on the ongoing election issues in Florida and Georgia on Monday, reaffirming his confidence in Republican...
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice-elect Tom Parker joined Capitol Journal on Friday where he defended his association with controversial former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore. When asked by host Don Dailey on whether or not he saw himself as an “activist” like his friend Roy Moore in assuming the office of chief justice, Parker responded, […]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was on hand in Mobile, Alabama, to christen a U.S. Navy ship. AL.com reports that the USNS Puerto Rico was christened Saturday at the Austal USA shipyard, where it was built.
Lieutenant Governor-elect Will Ainsworth (R-Guntersville) announced on Monday that Judy Miller, who has worked for more than three decades as the...
Alabama’s growing population means state driver licenses will get an additional digit. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says it is adding an eighth digit to all new driver licenses issued by the state beginning Dec. 1.
Former Alabama congressman (AL-5) and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Dr. Parker Griffith appeared on the latest episode of Guerrilla Politics, which...
The businessman trying to buy a mothballed nuclear power plant from Tennessee Valley Authority has been given an extension to complete the $111 million purchase. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports Franklin Haney signed an agreement on Nov. 14, 2016, that gave the former real estate developer two years to complete the purchase of the […]
According to a press release issued Friday by the Department of Justice (DOJ), 18 members or associates of a violent street gang in Selma have been...
According to a press release, Nick Sellers of Alabama Power recently won the Alabama Restaurant and Hospitality Association's (ARHA) annual Stars of the...
Auburn University aquatic ecologist Alan Wilson and a team of biological, molecular and environmental scientists from three other U.S. institutions are taking on toxic cyanobacteria, also called blue-green algae or pond scum, in a five-year, $2 million National Science Foundation project. In recent years, harmful outbreaks of noxious cyanobacteria have reached extreme levels in freshwater […]

