Democratic gubernatorial nominee and Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox campaigned alongside former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman in Selma on Tuesday. Siegelman is a convicted felon who was released from federal prison last year after serving approximately six years. He reportedly is still unable vote in the state. According to the Selma Times-Journal, after Maddox gave his speech on […]

Rep. Mo Brooks (AL-5) strongly criticized liberal immigration policies after an illegal immigrant from Mexico confessed on Tuesday to kidnapping and killing Mollie Tibbetts, a student at the University of Iowa, while she was jogging in her small hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, age 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in […]

Hundreds of dead fish have been found on top of a pond in Alabama and officials say it appears low oxygen levels are to blame. Southern Pond Management said shad were the only fish impacted by low oxygen levels in the Lake Crest Pond in Hoover on Tuesday. Oxygen levels can be reduced when the […]

Senator Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) announced today in a press release that the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $3,087,090 to Auburn University “for research and the development of techniques to improve the additive manufacturing industry.” Additive manufacturing is a more accurate term for the professional process known as “3D […]

The University of Alabama football program was treated to a visit Monday by Tuscaloosa’s native-son and boxer Deontay Wilder, who stressed the importance of teamwork and brotherhood. Nicknamed “The Bronze Bomber,” Wilder has been the reigning World Boxing Council heavyweight champion since 2015, boasting a career record of 40-0 with 39 knockouts. “If you look to […]

Fire crews are investigating after a church in northern Alabama caught fire. Cullman County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Bradley Williams tells WIAT-TV the fire broke out at the Warrior Creek Baptist Church in Arab Tuesday evening. He says crews were on scene late that night working to control the flames. The extent of damage to the […]

An Alabama police officer is on administrative duty after being charged with assaulting a minor. The Decatur Daily reports that Decatur police Lt. Archie Hoyt Letson is set for trial on the misdemeanor trial on Sept. 13. The 40-year-old Letson has pleaded not guilty and is free on bond.

After a video recently went viral on social media depicting American election equipment being easily hacked at this summer’s Def Con hacking conference, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill told Yellowhammer News that it is “unconscionable” that anyone would give the video “any credence.” At @defcon hacking conference and just learned how easy it is […]

Republican Rep. Bradley Byrne (AL-1) on Tuesday hosted a town hall in the Old Monroe County Courthouse of “To Kill a Mockingbird” fame. This came as part of Byrne’s “Better Off Now” town hall tour, wherein the Congressman is discussing how Alabamians are better off now “thanks to a booming economy, stronger military and safer […]

Alabaster police say a 43-year-old woman has been arrested in the death of her 4-year-old daughter. WBRC-TV reports Amy Reeves Silver was arrested Tuesday by U.S. Marshals, and charged with reckless murder in the death of her daughter, Sharon Smith. The little girl was in the car with her mother when a train hit them.

An art museum at a decades-old Alabama company is closing. The Tuscaloosa News reports The Westervelt Co.’s Tuscaloosa Museum of Art will close Aug. 31. Some of the museum’s collection of American and Asian art and furniture will remain. But corporate communications manager Susan Poole says other pieces will be “prepared for shipment” and not […]

Auburn University’s football program on Tuesday posted a video of school basketball legend Charles Barkley giving a speech to the team as they continue preseason preparations. “I came here in 1981,” Barkley told the players. “And it was the best decision I ever made in my life.” He continued, “When I travel the world, people […]

Tuesday by a 3-4 vote, the Mobile City Council voted against a proposal supported by Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson that would have given the University of South Alabama $10 million of taxpayer money over 20 years for a new on-campus football stadium. The drama as to whether or not the city council would vote to […]

A Tax Foundation study analyzed data and adjusted the value of $100 to find out the states where $100 is worth the least amount, and Alabama is at the top of the list, trailing just behind its neighbor for the top spot. The report found Alabama to be ranked second in the country where you can get the […]

Huntsville’s HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology announced on Tuesday that one of their associate companies, CFD Research, partnered with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities during a two-week course designed to “teach, inspire and involve” high school students in CFD’s antibiotic discovery process. The results from the students’ research in Maryland […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday proposed a replacement to the Obama Administration’s so-called “Clean Power Plan,” and Alabama’s coal industry rejoiced, calling the news “a victory for Alabama.” The replacement, entitled the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by establishing emission guidelines while still allowing the states individually […]

An Alabama police chief has been fired after being arrested on marijuana possession and other drug charges. News outlets report 37-year-old Brian “Scott” Martin was terminated as Lipscomb police chief ahead of an Aug. 28 trial on misdemeanor charges of second-degree marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.

More than 400 students are missing class this week after a fire damaged their high school in Alabama. News outlets report that Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery caught fire early Saturday.

Saying the stakes are high, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday created a group to encourage participation in the 2020 Census as the state faces the possible loss of a congressional seat because of low population growth. Ivey announced the creation of Alabama Counts! Census Committee during a Capitol news conference. The push comes as […]

Alabama leaders celebrated after the state announced its highest ever employment numbers for the third month in a row. Nearly 30,000 more Alabamians are employed since the start of the year, and wages and salaries are up, too. “We’ve done it AGAIN Alabama!” Gov. Kay Ivey said on Twitter. Republican leaders in the Yellowhammer State pointed to good, […]

Incumbent Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) slammed his Democratic opponent as “socialist” and “extreme” after FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver’s highly-touted political forecasting website, projected that the incumbent Brooks will be reelected in Alabama’s Fifth Congressional District. The site predicts Brooks will prevail with 63.5 percent of the vote compared to Peter Joffrion’s 36.5 percent. As far as the odds […]

In an interview that aired on Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal” on Friday, Alabama Democratic Party chairwoman Nancy Worley suggested it was the work of Republicans behind the turmoil inside her party. Worley, who narrowly held off a challenge by Montgomery attorney Peck Fox earlier this month for the state Democratic Party’s chair, described those questioning […]

In a viral video posted Sunday on Twitter, University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban defined toughness to his team. “I’ve never really stood up here, in all the time that I’ve been here, and ever really defined toughness to you,” Saban began. The six-time National Championship-winning coach then outlined his meaning of the […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Monday participated in a White House panel on border security and was a special guest afterward at President Donald Trump’s ceremony honoring the brave men and women of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Marshall accepted the invitation to be a part of this […]