All six judges in an Alabama county have recused themselves from presiding over the lawsuit filed by failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore against some of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct. News outlets report Etowah County’s four circuit judges and two district judges filed recusals with interim Alabama Chief Justice Lyn Stuart […]

Chef and owner Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune restaurant in New York City took home the outstanding chef award Monday night at the James Beard Awards , and Alabama’s Highlands Bar and Grill won the outstanding restaurant honor. Highlands Bar and Grill received the top award after multiple nominations in the category over the years. The […]

Workers who build and launch rockets have gone on strike in Alabama, Florida and California. Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers voted Sunday to reject a three-year contract offer from United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colorado. The strike, which began Monday, involves about 300 workers who assemble rockets in Decatur, Alabama, […]

Authorities are charging two north Alabama men with murder, saying they killed a third man and dumped his body off a rural road. Walker County Sheriff Jim Underwood tells WBRC-TV that deputies on Saturday arrested 54-year-old David Earl Davis and 41-year-old Michael Scott Mathews, both of Nauvoo. They’re charged with killing Tony Wayne Duncan and […]

An Alabama fugitive who was shot in the neck after an hours-long police chase in southwest Louisiana has been released from a hospital and booked into jail. Records show Cody Light of Arab (AY-rab), Alabama, has been booked into the Calcasieu (KAL’-kuh-soo) Parish Jail. The 35-year-old Light is accused in Alabama of shooting at a […]

The body of an Alabama woman has been found in Gulf of Mexico waters off Florida’s coast. The Pensacola News Journal reports that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission identified the woman as 56-year-old Carolyn Blankenfeld of Lillian, Alabama. Coast Guard crews found her body Monday in Perdido Bay.

On Monday, Doug Turner, the campaign treasurer for Sen. Doug Jones’ (D-Mountain Brook) 2017 special election campaign, responded to an allegation that first surfaced in a New York Post report in which their campaign was accused of receiving an “illegally oversized campaign donation” from Rosie O’Donnell. Turner said in a statement to Yellowhammer News the […]

U.S. military officials have sought to ward off congressional efforts to address child-on-child sexual assaults on bases, even as they disclose that the problem is larger than previously acknowledged. Members of Congress expressed alarm and demanded answers after an Associated Press investigation revealed that reports of sexual violence among kids on U.S. military bases and […]

The House intelligence Committee has ended its probe into Russian collusion, and it is now investigating what Chairman Devin Nunes calls “FISA abuse and other matters.” In a phone call to “Fox & Friends” on Sunday morning, Nunes said as part of that FISA investigation, he sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions two […]

An Alabama woman is accused of stealing items from multiple victims at nursing homes. Mobile police spokeswoman Charlette Solis tells WALA-TV that Sherrita Sawyer is accused of taking wallets, a phone and jewelry from at least four nursing homes. She was arrested Saturday.

An east Alabama school system is shutting down for the day as a precaution because of a threat. WSFA-TV reports that officials closed schools in Macon County on Monday because of a threat posted on social media. Sheriff Andre Brunson says the decision was made to close the county’s school in consultant with the superintendent, […]

Army officials are now acknowledging they’ve investigated reports of child-on-child sexual assaults at Fort Rucker. The disclosure comes amid an Associated Press investigation that found many sexual assault reports among children at U.S. military bases where service member families live have languished in a dead zone of justice, in which victims and offenders go without help. […]

The body of an Alabama woman missing for nearly a month has been found in a forest. News outlets cite a Winston County Sheriff’s Office release that says a private search party found the body of 55-year-old Jennifer Marshell White inside her vehicle in the Bankhead National Forest area Sunday. She was last seen on […]

Teachers in the Huntsville City School District will start seeing more money starting next year thanks to a vote by the board of education. Thursday’s move will dedicate over $10 million in increases over the next three years for teachers, which is on top of the 2.5 percent state mandated pay increase. District officials say […]

The city of Auburn is looking to take part in a $40 million project to upgrade recreation facilities and new parks. The Opelika-Auburn News reports that the 13 projects could see new parks and athletic fields along with enhancements to the Auburn Public Library. The projects will be included for approval on the May 15 […]

The Coast Guard says a barge carrying scrap metal caught fire on a river near southwest Alabama. A news release says the barge caught fire on the Mobile River around 10 a.m. Sunday. No crewmembers were reported to be aboard the barge when it caught fire. There have been no reports of pollution or injuries. […]

Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and four other Democrats received “illegally over-sized campaign donations” from Rosie O’Donnell, according to a report in the NY Post. The newspaper analyzed campaign finance reports and found that O’Donnell has “regularly” exceeded the contribution limits of $2,700 per election set by the Federal Election Commission. “Alabama Sen. Doug Jones disclosed […]

Friday in an interview with Mobile’s FM Talk 106.5, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) talked about the upcoming midterm elections and what that could mean for his party, especially coming off of his 2017 U.S. Senate special election upset victory. With a full slate of Democrats vying for statewide and congressional offices, Jones argued the […]

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration this week for making changes to Title X family planning grant applications to favor abstinence education. Three Planned Parenthood affiliates – in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Utah – filed their lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia claiming […]

The national unemployment rate for blacks in April 2018 was 6.6%, the lowest it has been since the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) started compiling such data in 1972, some 46 years ago. According to the BLS, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Blacks or African Americans, aged 16 and over, was 6.6% in April, […]

Located in southern Baldwin County just 10 miles from the popular soft, sand beaches of the Alabama Gulf Coast, Foley has been transformed into a destination all its own in recent years, attracting tourists and new residents. “Baldwin County is the fastest-growing county in the state of Alabama, and Foley is one of the fastest-growing […]

Alabama Power’s Smart Neighborhood is near completion, bringing together for the first time in the Southeast high-performance homes, energy efficient systems and appliances, connected devices and a microgrid on a community-wide scale. Smart Neighborhood is a future-focused, energy-efficient community with homes that are rated 35 percent more efficient than standard Alabama homes being built today. […]

Heflin, Alabama, Police Chief A.J. Benefield does not have much experience with bank robberies, but that did not stop his officers from nabbing a foursome of suspects earlier this week. Benefield attributed the successful arrest to a combination of luck, an alert citizen and good police work. The robbery took place Wednesday at the appropriately […]

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s challengers are indirectly trying to raise questions about the 73-year-old frontrunner’s health ahead of the primary, releasing their own medical information and saying the public should have confidence in the next governor’s health. State Sen. Bill Hightower, who is 58, released a copy of his medical records and urged other candidates […]