The artist who turned a house where Rosa Parks once lived into an art piece says he’s working to ensure the home is displayed in Rhode Island, even after Brown University pulled its support. Ryan Mendoza says he has a First Amendment right to show the house. Parks lived in the home for a time […]

Forecasters have issued a freeze warning for north Alabama. The National Weather Service says snow flurries fell in the Tennessee Valley early Monday ahead of a day with chilly temperatures and winds gusting to 40 mph.

A Mississippi company is recalling around 35 tons (31.75 metric tons) of catfish products that might have been tainted by a compound that poses a public health concern. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Friday that various fresh and frozen, raw, intact Siluriformes products were produced Feb. 16 at the Heartland Catfish […]

An Alabama attorney faces additional charges of human trafficking just weeks after being arrested on similar charges. Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry says Randy Allan Hames faces new charges of first- and second-degree human trafficking. The 75-year-old Hames was arrested Saturday and released on bail.

Police in a central Alabama city have charged two 12-year-olds with making terroristic threats toward schools. Prattville Police Chief Mark Thompson says a 12-year-old boy was arrested Sunday and placed in a juvenile detention center. Price says the child made threats on social media against Prattville High School and Prattville Intermediate School, which the boy […]

The state released preliminary, seasonally adjusted numbers Monday showing the jobless rate declined one-tenth of a percent in January from the December rate of 3.8 percent. The rate represents a record low, but it could be adjusted later. The January number is still well below the January 2017 unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, however. And […]

Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery is remembering a Medal of Honor recipient on the 50th anniversary of his death during the Vietnam War. A ceremony will be held today honoring Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger of Hamburg, Pennsylvania. Etchberger died during fighting in Laos on March 11, 1968. He is the only […]

President Donald Trump’s chief of staff killed EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s idea to publicly debate the merits and demerits of man-made global warming, according to a recent report from The New York Times. John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, put a screeching halt to Pruitt’s goal to craft a read team and blue team […]

A north Alabama man is going to prison for growing marijuana in his backyard. A judge this week sentenced 40-year-old Robert Michael Musick of Athens to three years in prison and two years of probation for drug trafficking. The Athens News Courier reports Musick was arrested in 2015 after police found marijuana plants in the […]

As expected, the focus of the first Alabama Conservation Advisory Board meeting of the year was the increased awareness and efforts to keep chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of Alabama. CWD, a disease that affects members of the cervid family of animals (deer, elk, moose, caribou, etc.), was recently confirmed in west-central Mississippi. Previously, the […]

Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus wrote in a recent column that she would have killed her unborn child if a test determined it had Down syndrome and that, therefore, it was “a child whose intellectual capacity will be impaired, whose life choices will be limited, whose health may be compromised.” Marcus wrote: “… I was old […]

If liberals would quit acting so crazy, maybe they would have a chance of making significant gains in Congress in the upcoming midterm elections and achieve their goal of eroding support for President Donald Trump. But it’s not gonna happen. Liberals’ extremism and outrageousness and conservatives’ failure to stop them created the conditions leading to […]

In an interview published on Friday with The Baldwin Times’ Cliff McCollum, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) validated speculation that he is considering a 2020 run for the U.S. Senate. “I’m actively looking at it,” Byrne said to the Times. “I’ve got a lot of things I’ve got to do in addition to that. We don’t take […]

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Metal detectors at an Alabama high school were not in use the day a 17-year-old student was killed in a shooting on campus, the district’s superintendent said Thursday. Birmingham City Schools Superintendent Lisa Herring said the school system is reviewing security measures and protocols that were in place Wednesday, when Courtlin Arrington was fatally shot in a […]

A train transporting sewage from New York and New Jersey has prompted complaints of a rotten stench and fly infestations in Alabama with Birmingham city officials saying they’re working with authorities to clear the air. The stench is nearly unbearable, Birmingham City Councilman John Hilliard said this week at a city council meeting. Numerous train […]

    Birmingham closed one of its largest schools for a thorough safety sweep Thursday after metal detectors and other security measures failed to keep students from handling a gun in a classroom where one 17-year-old was fatally shot and another wounded in an apparent accident. Birmingham Interim Police Chief Orlando Wilson said investigators are […]

Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) introduced the ‘‘Protecting Our Children’s Future Act of 2018” on Thursday, a bill that would significantly alter how Congress passes budgets and appropriates money.The details: — The bill is an attempt to enforce a strict budget process after a year riddled with continuing budget resolutions. — “Everyone knows the Congressional budgeting […]

    It begins. Will Ainsworth became the first candidate for lieutenant governor to go up on the air after launching a statewide radio campaign Thursday. The conservative state representative from Guntersville is airing spots on nearly 30 affiliate stations in the Yellowhammer Radio News Network, penetrating every major media market and reaching more than […]

    Three people have been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of an Alabama toddler. Huntsville Police Lt. Michael Johnson says in a news release that 26-year-olds Martin Arrendondo Evense, Brittany Nicole Kingston and Dominique Marshawn Russell were arrested Thursday morning. AL.com reports 3-year-old Olivia Robinson was killed when the home she was sleeping in […]

Yellowhammer News just heard in the hallway that the weekly newspaper owned by State Rep. Craig Ford, I-Gadsden, apparently removed a favorable reference to his Republican opponent that appeared in a statewide syndicated column it carries. The column, Inside the Statehouse by Steve Flowers, was issued online February 28 and — between mentions of the […]

    Dauphin Island officials say the Alabama resort town has largely recovered from hurricane damage and is preparing to host vacationers as spring break season begins. Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier says one of the four public beaches remains closed, but the rest of the town is “up and running” and set for spring […]

    A lawyer for an Alabama inmate whose lethal injection was halted after staffers could not connect an intravenous line argued Monday that his client should not face a second date in the death chamber. Attempting to execute Doyle Lee Hamm a second time would violate the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual […]

The city of Mobile will get an infusion of $40 million to help with some environmental projects. The monies assigned come from a trust fund created by civil penalties from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The projects to be addressed include watershed restoration, a cross-city greenway and welcome center. Four projects in Fairhope will get […]