The remains of solider killed during the Korean War have been returned to his family in the U.S. News outlets report that a casket carrying Army Sgt. Julius Ellis McKinney arrived Wednesday morning at Memphis International Airport in Tennessee.

An Alabama inmate who was serving time for killing two people in the 1970s has been found dead in a prison infirmary. Al.com cites the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office as saying 66-year-old Donald Thigpen was pronounced dead Tuesday around 8 p.m.

Electro Optic Systems (EOS), a Australian defense contractor specializing in remotely controlled weapon systems, announced plans Wednesday to locate its flagship U.S. manufacturing facility in technology-focused Huntsville, creating as many as 100 jobs in the first year. EOS executives joined Alabama Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield and local leaders for the announcement this morning at the […]

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Wednesday on Fox Business that President Donald Trump’s successful agenda has stifled any chance of a blue wave this November. “Across [California] yesterday we saw Republicans turning out in droves in six of the seven battleground House seats yesterday that Democrats were counting on to flip the House,” McDaniel said […]

An Alabama county has elected a new probate judge and school superintendent. Citing unofficial results, Al.com reports the Tuesday Republican primary in Shelby County decided the two roles as no Democrats were in either race.

An Alabama lawmaker has been indicted on federal charges that he paid kickbacks to a doctor’s office that referred Medicare patients to his health care business. The indictment against Republican state Rep. Ed Henry of Hartselle was unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Montgomery.

An Alabama man has been charged with taking parts stripped from stolen vehicles and selling them on the website Craigslist. WKRG-TV reports Baldwin County sheriff’s deputies arrested Travis McCryndle on Wednesday on charges of receiving stolen property and operating a motor vehicle theft facility out of Daphne.

Alabama Democrats followed up a surprise Senate victory in December with an enthusiastic crop of candidates, excited activists with more confidence than the party has had in decades and a competitive gubernatorial primary. Yet, when the dust cleared from Tuesday’s voting, there was scant evidence of a transformation of the state’s politics. Both parties attracted […]

Two years after withdrawing election support for Donald Trump because of his comments about women, U.S. Rep. Martha Roby of Alabama has been forced into a runoff with a former congressman that will gauge what is the bigger political sin for a Republican in a Deep South district: Criticizing President Trump or being a former […]

An attorney for an Alabama lawmaker indicted on federal charges in an alleged kickback scheme says his client is “guilty of no crimes.” Republican state Rep. Ed Henry of Hartselle was arrested Thursday after being charged in U.S. District Court with paying kickbacks to a doctor’s office that referred Medicare patients to his health care […]

What is fake news and how do you spot it? Yellowhammer News Editor J. Pepper Bryars will join other community leaders in a panel discussion and town hall event Wednesday, June 6, from 6-8 p.m. at the Huntsville Public Library. Join us!

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence Wednesday of a woman serving a life sentence in Alabama for drug offenses. Her cause was championed by reality TV star Kim Kardashian West in a recent visit to the White House.

With the prospect of a “blue wave” in the November elections, Republicans and Democrats appeared to have escaped embarrassment Wednesday after primaries across eight states. President Donald Trump cast the night as a win for Republicans. “So much for the big Blue Wave, it may be a big Red Wave,” he tweeted Wednesday morning, hailing […]

Georg von Tiesenhausen, the last of the German rocket team that launched the U.S. space program, has died at his Alabama home. He was 104.

Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore’s career may have ended in December when he lost a special election for the Senate, but his shadow lives on in the state’s Republican politics. Tuesday’s GOP primary showed that when Moore’s longtime protégé, Justice Tom Parker, took down incumbent Chief Justice Lyn Stuart. Parker openly embraces […]

Here is a list of the winners and runoff races as a result of Tuesday’s primary voting. Governor Walt Maddox, Dem Governor Kay Ivey (i), GOP

Alabama voters went to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in an array of races. Aside from the governor’s campaign, here are some of the other key races:

First-term incumbent John Merrill has won the GOP nomination for Secretary of State. Merrill beat Marshall County Revenue Commissioner Michael Johnson. Merrill ran on his experience, while Johnson said he wanted to use his technical and administrative experience in the job.

Gov. Kay Ivey clinched the Republican nomination in Alabama’s gubernatorial primary race Tuesday, and now she seeks to win the office outright after her appointment 14 months ago, when predecessor Robert Bentley resigned in the fallout of a sex-tinged scandal. She will face Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox, who won the Democratic nomination. Alabama hasn’t elected […]

U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks of Huntsville has won the GOP’s nomination in the District 5 primary. Brooks defeated Army veteran Clayton Hinchman.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has clinched the Republican nomination for governor without a runoff. Ivey was declared the winner Tuesday night after beating back a field of GOP challengers. She is seeking to win the office in her own right after becoming governor 14 months ago when her scandal-battered predecessor, Robert Bentley, resigned. Huntsville Mayor […]

U.S. Rep. Martha Roby has been forced into a runoff in Alabama’s Republican primary after challengers blasted her 2016 criticism of Donald Trump. Roby faces Bobby Bright in a July runoff in Alabama’s conservative 2nd district — where Trump loyalty has been a central issue. Roby is a four-term incumbent. In campaigning for Tuesday’s primary, […]

When the Miss America pageant started in 1921, having young women parade around in bathing suits seemed like a great way to get tourists to come to the Atlantic City Boardwalk after Labor Day. But how America views women has changed drastically since then, and the Miss America Organization is run by women who don’t […]

A man has been accused of firing gunshots in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant in Alabama. AL.com reports 27-year-old Ladarius Bloxom was charged in the Wednesday shooting in the parking lot of a Church’s Chicken.