OPELIKA, Ala. — The Lee County Sheriff’s office has confirmed to WSFA that Republican state senator Tom Whatley has been arrested and charged with third degree domestic violence. He has posted a $500 bond and has been released after spending the mandatory 12 hour period in the Lee County Jail. Watley was first elected to […]

(Video above: Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) speaks out against President Obama’s executive actions on immigration on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Monday, Dec. 8, 2014.) WASHINGTON — Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) on Monday spoke out against the President’s executive actions on immigration, which unilaterally shielded 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation. Byrne, […]

Marine Cpl. Clay Hunt watched a fellow Marine die after being shot in the throat by a sniper in Iraq. Weeks leader Hunt was also shot in the wrist by an enemy marksman. But as the Washington Post explains, Hunt didn’t let that stop him from deploying again to Afghanistan after completing Marine sniper school […]

In an email to the Alabama Republican Party Executive Committee, ALGOP Chairman Bill Armistead broke the news that he will not seek a third term. Armistead’s announcement will spark a Chairmanship race that will culminate in the election of a new chairman on Feb. 21, 2015, the day after the ALGOP’s winter dinner featuring keynote […]

WASHINGTON — Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), the country’s leading anti-tax group, on Monday criticized Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley for proposing the elimination of certain state income tax deductions as a solution for the state’s budget woes. “Enacting legislation that burdens taxpayers with higher taxes and fees to fuel exorbitant state spending, goes against his […]

http://youtu.be/-zQiOgaYqbA (Video above: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) interviewed on America’s News HQ on Fox News) WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) over the weekend continued his relentless assault on the President’s executive actions on immigration, asserting that they are an attack on American workers. “We don’t have enough jobs for Americans,” Sessions said on Fox […]

WASHINGTON — Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL3) on Monday slammed Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.), current chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, for her effort to drastically reduce the United States’ stockpile of nuclear weapons, saying it shows a “disregard for reality.” In an op-ed published last week in the Washington Post, Feinstein argued that nuclear […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) will be the keynote speaker at The Alabama Republican Party Victory Celebration and Winter Dinner in Montgomery on Feb. 20, 2015. Paul, a libertarian-leaning ophthalmologist who was elected to the Senate in the Tea Party wave of 2010, is widely believed to be preparing to run for […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s7PmiIPvEU (Video above: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) speaks on the Senate floor urging Congress to block funds for Obama’s “illegal amnesty hiring spree.”) WASHINGTON — Executive branch agencies are already pushing forward with implementing President Obama’s immigration orders, which circumvented Congress to instantly shield roughly 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration […]

(Video above: Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) grills a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official during a Congressional hearing Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014.) Samuel D. Rauch III is the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the government agency that manages every fishery in the country, in Rauch’s words, […]

Two senior Senate Republicans are preparing for a rare intraparty showdown over who will lead the Budget Committee, testing how big a platform the party will give one of the loudest conservative voices in the new GOP-controlled Congress. That’s how POLITICO describes the current battle between Sens. Jeff Sessions and Mike Enzi over who will […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Yellowhammer CEO Cliff Sims took to Twitter on Wednesday to criticize Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s recent claim that eliminating tax deductions would not constitute a violation of his campaign pledge to not raise taxes in his second term. According to Legislative Fiscal Office numbers cited by the Birmingham News, the state could […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange on Wednesday joined a lawsuit filed by the State of Texas challenging the President’s recent immigration actions as unconstitutional and illegal. On Nov. 20, President Obama issued a Department of Homeland Security directive that unilaterally suspended immigration laws as applied to millions of illegal immigrants in the […]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Tuesday blasted a plan by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that would fund the government through next September, but readdress in March funding for the Dept. of Homeland Security, which is in charge of implementing the president’s recent executive actions on immigration. Sessions and other House and Senate […]

WASHINGTON — Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL3) on Tuesday peppered Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson with questions as the secretary defended President Obama’s recent immigration executive order while testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee. Obama’s executive actions seek to shield from deportation roughly 5 million illegal immigrants who have been in the United States […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — If Congressman-elect Gary Palmer’s recent staffing decisions are any indication, he’ll be charting a staunchly conservative course in his new job representing Alabama’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Palmer, who was elected in November and will officially succeed 10-term Congressman Spencer Bachus in January, has chosen one current […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Republican leaders of the Alabama House and Senate filed a motion Tuesday asking the state’s Supreme Court to expedite its ruling on the Alabama Accountability Act (AAA), the school choice law passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Bentley in 2013. Advocates of the law say it offers a “lifeline” […]

After spending millions of dollars to influence Alabama’s Republican legislative primaries, and in spite of the state’s increasingly conservative electorate, it appears that the Alabama Education Association’s (AEA) present — and likely future, as well — will continue to be in the hands of Democrats. First, here’s what we know for certain: On Monday, the […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Remember playing “cowboys and Indians” or “cops and robbers” when you were growing up? If one liberal political activist has his way, the next generation of Alabama kids won’t have quite that same experience. Frank Matthews, a Birmingham-based political activist and the president of the Outcast Voters League said on Monday that […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – New data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs shows the already-long wait times for veterans seeking mental health services in Central Alabama have gotten even worse. New veteran patients seeking mental health care must wait an average of 67 days, up from the 56 day average reported in May. Rep. Martha […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — After passing the nation’s toughest anti-illegal immigration law in 2011 and having one of its U.S. senators lead the charge against amnesty, Alabama has become well-known for its conservative position on immigration reform. But the national affiliate of Alabama’s teachers union is bucking that trend and praising President Obama’s decision to go […]

WSFA.com Montgomery Alabama news. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Local NBC affiliate WSFA sent a reporter undercover with a hidden camera and exposed just how easy it can be to commit food stamp fraud in Alabama. “In Alabama more than 900,000 people receive food assistance,” according to WSFA’s report. “Most of them are in need of the […]

WASHINGTON — Reaching a deal to curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions once again proved to be impossible this week, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced negotiations will be extended for another seven months. This is the second time this year the talks — which have been ongoing for the past dozen years — have […]

The Birmingham City Council in early August used a loophole in Alabama’s open meetings law to go into a “closed door executive session” to discuss doling out $275,000 to Democratic lobbyists to help the city land the 2016 Democratic National Convention. City leaders said a public discussion of the contracts could hurt its chances of […]