Despite multiple attempts from Republican Roy Moore’s campaign to offer objections to the December special election’s results, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and Secretary of State John Merrill have officially certified Democrat Doug Jones the winner. Late Wednesday night, Moore filed a lawsuit in an attempt to delay Alabama officials from declaring Jones’ victory, […]

    In Oklahoma City, words don’t mean what they plainly mean. Asking government officials simple questions prompts Orwellian acrobatics. By distorting language and obfuscating actions, public bureaucrats subvert transparency and evade accountability. Whether in the fictional dictatorship of Oceania, or the true-life fascistic regime of North Korea, or the petty tyranny of Oklahoma, linguistic […]

    Nature abhors a vacuum, or as the case might have been in some parts of Alabama, a vacant news rack. The fact is, three of the state’s major newspapers (all under the AL.com umbrella) have simply become dead-tree versions of BuzzFeed, with an Alabama twist. Without a traditional news source, residents of small-to-medium-sized […]

      New York City terror suspect Akayed Ullah posted “Trump, you failed to protect your nation” on Facebook just prior to executing a botched terror bombing of the subway system. Ullah, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi who moved to the United States on a family immigrant visa in 2011, attempted to cause major damage Monday […]

    A report released this week by VOICES For Alabama’s Children demonstrates that increased participation in Alabama’s Pre-K programs has contributed to significantly improved education outcomes in recent years. Why this matters: Alabama has been ranked as low as 42 in education nationally, an unfortunate statistic commonly repeated during local and state-wide election seasons. […]

    Depending on who you ask, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore either has a five or six point lead in his race against Democrat Doug Jones in the December 12th contest. The race has gained intense national scrutiny since multiple women have accused Moore of various forms of sexual misconduct. “JMC Consulting’s poll […]

    A bureaucrat from the controversial United Nation’s Human Rights Council (HRC) will visit Alabama next month to “investigate government efforts to eradicate poverty” and how it relates to our “obligations under international human rights law,” according to a statement from the organization. “The United States is among the richest countries in the world, […]

    Yellowhammer News contributing editor Quin Hillyer appeared on Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream Wednesday evening to discuss the mood in Alabama as the Roy Moore fiasco rocks the state. Hillyer said the mood is “very fluid” with many “cross-cutting pressures and shifting opinions.” “Rational people are waiting to see what [Moore] […]

  Yellowhammer News has learned that the Alabama Republican Party’s steering committee ended its meeting Wednesday evening without decertifying Roy Moore, which would have voided any votes he received during next month’s election. The 21-member committee is the main governing body within the party. It began meeting earlier this afternoon to discuss options. It is […]

  When four intruders blocked the road to his house and tried to break into his home to kidnap his 17 year-old daughter, the teen’s 51 year-old father used his gun to save her. After his dogs started barking and his motion-activated flood lights went on, the man spotted the four intruders trying to break […]

Birmingham-based Yellowhammer Multimedia continued its expansion today by announcing the addition of an experienced and dynamic editorial team to oversee the content of its flagship publication, Yellowhammernews.com. Mobile native and conservative columnist J. Pepper Bryars has been named editor, while his wife, Birmingham native and writer Rachel Blackmon Bryars will serve as the site’s managing […]