No more ID cards for University of Alabama students with an Apple Watch or iPhone. In a statement from Apple, students only have to raise their wrist to gain access to places including the library, dorms and events, pay for snacks, laundry and dinners around campus, the Tuscaloosa News reported.

Authorities say a fire has claimed a person’s life in east Birmingham. Al.com reports that fire crews responded to the blaze around 9 p.m. Sunday.

Nancy Pelosi called Attorney General Jeff Sessions and “all people of faith in our country” hypocrites for not demanding a stop to immigration policy enforcement. Pelosi lambasted Sessions for quoting the Bible and chastised people of faith for not calling for a path to citizenship for DACA recipients. She also criticized him for not demanding […]

Samford University’s Ida Moffett School of Nursing has received more than $2.1 million to help make graduate nursing education more affordable for currently practicing or teaching nurses committed to careers in nursing education. Samford’s $2,140,611 Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration is […]

Facebook provided further clarification over how it combats the alleged outbreak of fake news on its platform in a blog post published Thursday. “False news is a money maker for spammers and a weapon of state actors and agitators around the world,” said Tessa Lyons, product manager for Facebook. Regardless of the validity of such […]

Now even innocent children’s play is politicized by the liberal media. Univision, the Spanish-language media giant that aspires to be a leader of the liberal media pack, illustrated the problem when it ginned up the “outrage” over little Prince George playing with a water pistol during a family outing to watch one of his Dad’s […]

Timing is everything. And Birmingham’s timing for becoming a host city in the North American effort to secure the 2026 World Cup was awful. Wednesday, a combined bid from the United States, Mexico and Canada won the hosting rights. Sixty of the 80 matches, including the final, will be in the U.S.

Is Antarctica melting or is it gaining ice? A recent paper claims Antarctica’s net ice loss has dramatically increased in recent years, but forthcoming research will challenge that claim. NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally first challenged the “consensus” on Antarctica in 2015 when he published a paper showing ice sheet growth in eastern Antarctica outweighed the […]

Dean Robb and James “Huck” Huckaby call it a “perfect marriage.” Some two decades after working together at chef Frank Stitt’s famed Bottega Restaurant and Cafe, and then moving on to successful careers elsewhere, they are reuniting at Blueprint on 3rd – the newest culinary attraction at Birmingham’s Pepper Place.

Alabama’s unemployment rate is up slightly from a month ago. The state says the May jobless rate was 3.9 percent, up one-tenth of a percent from a month earlier.

Auburn University has raised its tuition following increases at other colleges in Alabama. AL.com quotes a statement from Auburn’s president’s office in a Thursday report as saying the school’s Board of Trustees decided to hold the tuition increase for fall 2019 at 2 percent.

Two men are charged with capital murder in the slaying of a 13-year-old girl in north Alabama, and her grandmother is missing. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office says 26-year-old Yoni Martinez Aguilar and 34-year-old Israel Gonzalez Palomino are being held in the killing of Marian Feit Lopez.

Facebook announced plans Thursday to build a $750 million data center in Huntsville that will create 100 high-paying jobs and provide a boost to Alabama’s emerging technology sector. Governor Kay Ivey joined Facebook officials and local leaders at an announcement ceremony for the data center project at the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber. “We are excited to […]

Crews are searching for a man who went missing in the Tombigbee River near McIntosh. The U.S. Coast Guard said early Friday that a helicopter crew from New Orleans was working with police, volunteers and others in the search.

An American pilot is being buried at Arlington National Cemetery more than 70 years after he crashed on a Pacific island during World War II. Second Lt. Robert Keown (pronounced Cow-uhn) was flying a P-38 aircraft that went down in Papua New Guinea in 1944.

A story circulating online falsely suggests the head of the Alabama Democratic Party has recently been arrested. The stories posted this week on sites called Conservative Army and Right Wing News says that Alabama Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Worley was “recently” in legal trouble after being indicted for several felonies and misdemeanors and had been […]

Facebook announced Thursday that it is investing $750 million to build a new data center in Huntsville. Gov. Kay Ivey announced the project during a news conference in Huntsville. Ivey’s office said the $750 million center will employ 100 people with an average annual salary of nearly $80,000. Ivey said she was pleased that a “forward-thinking, […]

A New Hampshire high school senior class president about to head out for military training couldn’t make his graduation, so he got his own personal ceremony instead. People attending the Prospect Mountain High School senior awards program Wednesday night were asked to stay after the event ended.

The popular true-crime podcast “S-Town” is being developed as a movie. The film production company Participant Media has acquired the feature-film rights to the seven-episode podcast.

On May 18, Weston Spivey graduated high school from Ridgecrest Christian in Dothan. In the June 5 primary elections, he beat incumbent Geneva County Commissioner Bryan Hatton for his District 1 seat. “A lot of no’s and a lot of ‘there ain’t no way you can win this race with who you’re running against,’” the […]

An Alabama man will serve 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing an opponent who was shot to death over a game of dominoes. The Decatur Daily reports 68-year-old Sterling Gerome Warren received the sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of 32-year-old Thomas Jerome Bibb Jr. in 2013.

The Birmingham area’s failed bid to be the site of Amazon’s second headquarters is being credited with helping it get in line for another big Amazon project: A distribution center that could open next year. The region submitted a proposal for Amazon’s new headquarters, but it wasn’t selected as a finalist when the company narrowed […]

In an interview with Mobile NBC affiliate WPMI 15 on Wednesday, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) addressed the possibility of President Donald Trump being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts regarding North Korea. Byrne told WPMI’s Jessica Townsend that despite what critics were saying about Trump’s summit in Singapore with North Korean dictator Kim […]

Police say a 35-year-old Alabama man accused of having more than 30 child pornography videos on his computer has been arrested. Huntsville Police Lt. Michael Jackson told Al.com on Wednesday that Michael Justin Berger had videos depicting children as young as 3.