While Senator Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) continues to publicly claim that he is undecided on how to vote on Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, Politico reported Tuesday that Democratic leadership has Jones “firmly in the ‘no’ column.” Jones, from Kavanaugh’s nomination onwards, has promised that he would meet with the nominee privately after […]

It has been a decade since Alabama Democratic congressional hopeful Mallory Hagan grew dissatisfied with Alabama’s culture and left Auburn University for New York City’s Brooklyn borough. As a resident of the Big Apple, she would go on to become Miss New York, and then the 2013 Miss America. Immediately after her win, Hagan embraced the […]

The Geneva County Commission has placed the Geneva County School system in a bind after it pulled funds committed to the school resource officer (SRO) program. Per a Dothan Eagle report, the county commission voted in June to give $15,000 to the SRO program this year, including an additional $60,000 next year. After commissioners found that […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Tuesday joined a select group of state attorneys general for “a productive dialogue” led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other Department of Justice (DOJ) officials regarding perceived discrimination against conservatives by leading tech companies. Per a DOJ release, “The discussion centered on ways the Department and state governments can […]

Tuesday is recognized as National Voter Registration Day (NVRD), which Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and Secretary of State John Merrill celebrated by encouraging all of the state’s eligible voters to register. The annual occasion is the largest single-day drive to register voters of the year. Merrill joined hundreds of different partners around the nation to observe […]

An Alabama city is asking a judge to deny a subpoena from county prosecutors for records related to a fatal police shooting. AL.com reports Huntsville’s city attorney filed a motion Monday asking a judge to reject the Madison County prosecutor’s record request, or allow Huntsville to provide sealed records.

Matt Might, the director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute, delivered a keynote address to mark the national Biden Cancer Summit Friday. In his speech, Might outlined the groundbreaking work that UAB and its Comprehensive Cancer Center are engaging in to identify and treat cancer, as well as the crucial work that must […]

Suspected illegal immigrant Jose Pascual was arrested for driving under the influence on Saturday afternoon in Mobile. He was arrested and placed in the Mobile County jail after being charged. NBC 15 reported that jail records indicate U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) placed a hold on Pascual, which means the agency will be notified […]

At the request of state Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur), the Alabama Legislative Services Agency issued a report on Alabama’s E-Verify compliance rate, and the results were not good. As ABC 31 detailed, the report showed that only 60 percent of the state’s businesses were in compliance with E-Verify –  the online system that allows employers to confirm […]

Marillyn Hewson – the chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin and a two-time graduate of the University of Alabama – is the most powerful woman in American business, per Fortune magazine’s annual ranking. This is the first time since 2015 that the list has a new woman ranked at the top, with General Motors president […]

HOOVER – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Monday delivered opening remarks at the National Public Safety Partnership Symposium, as did Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale, Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith and United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Jay Town. The symposium was the largest in the program’s history, with 21 major […]

At a stop on his statewide bus tour that is currently underway, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, offered attendees some of the health care policy proposals he would put forward if elected governor. Among the items that Maddox included according to a tweet from Montgomery’s WSFA were the expansion of Medicaid, money […]

Alabama Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon released a statement on Monday confirming that a lottery bill, which is expected to be proposed in the state legislature in 2019, will not be driven by House leadership. News came out over the weekend of McCutcheon telling WHNT, “I can say for sure that you’ll see a […]

Officials say an Alabama lumber company will add dozens of new jobs following the approval of a tax abatement package. The Tuscaloosa News reports the Tuscaloosa County Industrial Development Authority approved the tax abatement package as part of a $28.2 million capital investment at KyKenKee Inc. during its Thursday meeting.

HOOVER – Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday morning delivered the keynote address at the National Public Safety Partnership (NPSP) Symposium, reaffirming his staunch support of law enforcement and touting the Trump administration’s success in making “law and order” a national focus again. The speech, which was peppered with college football jabs and followed remarks […]

The Pentagon says the remains of three U.S. Marines killed when their helicopter was shot down during the Vietnam War will be buried this week at Arlington National Cemetery. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday that the remains of the three men will be buried as a group with full military honors next Thursday.

Five individuals will soon join the esteemed ranks of the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences ‘s Hall of Fame at an induction dinner on Thursday, October 4 in the North Zone at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The 2018 inductees, per a university release, are Jennings F. Bryant Jr., Rece Davis, Fred D. Gray […]

The Alabama Association for Justice, the state’s advocacy group for trial lawyers, donated $100,000 to Associate Justice Tom Parker’s campaign for state Supreme Court Chief Justice on Friday through its “Progress for Justice PAC.” With this new contribution, the association’s PAC has now donated $500,000 to Parker’s campaign. With another $5,000 from a Tuscaloosa personal […]

HOOVER – Minutes before news broke nationally Monday morning that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was being forced out of the White House, Attorney General Jeff Sessions left the stage immediately following his speech at the National Public Safety Partnership Symposium. The attorney general did not attend the scheduled press availability with other law enforcement officials following […]

After months of shadowy activity and legally questionable shell games, Planned Parenthood Southeast’s Alabama PAC finally has revealed a public purpose. The PAC, now called “Alabama for Healthy Families,” on Thursday in downtown Montgomery launched an all-out effort to kill the proposed Amendment Two on the upcoming November 6 General Election ballot. This amendment “would add language […]

As CBS 42 reported, the Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama, graduated the first class from the Birmingham Theological Seminary (BTS) Prison Initiative recently, with one inmate saying, “God is a changer of men and we’re living proof of that.” Ten inmates were awarded with certificates of completion, including four graduates earning a Master’s of […]

Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) on Friday announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a $3.2 million grant to Troy University to build a new facility for researching recycled plastic materials, and Pike County Probate Judge Wes Allen joined Shelby in applauding the tremendous news. “The new facility at Troy University […]

In the second reported ambush of police in the last three weeks in Selma, an officer was shot by multiple assailants using high-powered rifles and “military type tactics.” Per the Selma Times-Journal, the male officer, whose name is not being released at this time, is in stable condition after being transported to a hospital by […]

The possibility of a lottery in Alabama’s future is something that has been put forth by both gubernatorial candidates, incumbent Republican Gov. Kay Ivey and Democratic nominee Tuscaloosa Walt Maddox in recent weeks. In an interview that aired on Huntsville’s WHNT on Friday, State House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) has gone as far as predicting the […]