As we approach the turn of another year, research says that about half of us are gearing up for a New Year’s resolution. And many of us are planning to make the same resolution we’ve tried — and failed — to implement multiple years before. Psychologist Peter Herman calls this “false hope syndrome.” “New Year’s […]

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According to the Centers for Disease Control, “influenza-like illness” (ILI) is reaching epidemic proportions in Alabama and 21 other states around the country, including almost the entire Southeast. According to a CDC report, 28 percent of the specimens tested and reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance […]

1. ‘Lone Survivor’ Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s speech to the Bama football team will floor you A Marcus Luttrell speech with “Lone Survivor” clips and Alabama football highlights laid over the top of it lit up the Internet on Nov. 19. After originally being leaked on a file sharing site and presented as Luttrell’s speech […]

According to a recent study, 69 percent of seniors graduating from U.S. colleges in 2013 had student loan debt, often in the form of private loans, which are generally more costly than federal loans. The national student loan average last year was $28,400. The State of Alabama’s average student debt of $28,895—$495 more than the […]

Business Insider (BI) recently set out to find every state’s best diner. “The wait staff knows your name and order by heart. The coffee tastes like dirt some days, but you and your friends never seem to mind. And when your family comes into town for the holidays, you get excited to bring them to […]

If anyone asks you why the University of Alabama was named one of the United States’ “50 Most Beautiful College Campuses,” refer them to the video above. Here’s what thebestcolleges.org had to say about UA’s Tuscaloosa campus: The 1800 acre Alabama campus features many Greek Revival buildings. Several buildings (4) on the campus, including the […]

MOBILE, Ala. — Meeya Kim was tragically killed in a car accident on I-65 Thursday, Dec. 18, but her dog, who was riding in the car with her at the time of the accident, was mysteriously missing after being ejected from the vehicle. 700 miles away, the Kim family’s grief over the loss of Meeya […]

The author of this op-ed, Joseph A. Califano Jr., was President Lyndon Johnson’s top assistant for domestic affairs from 1965 to 1969. What’s wrong with Hollywood? The makers of the new movie “Selma” apparently just couldn’t resist taking dramatic, trumped-up license with a true story that didn’t need any embellishment to work as a big-screen […]

Want to be an oilman? Go to Texas. Want to be a mathematical technician? Minnesota may be your best bet. Animal breeder? Take a look at Wisconsin. But if you want to work with metal and plastic, your dream job might just be waiting for you in Alabama. Alabama’s economy is cranking out metal and […]

DeAndre Dunn of Tuscaloosa, Ala., holds a lot of different titles at his current job at Hudson Auto Body — motor man, rotors and brakes man, even upholstery man. But one title he’s committed to never holding again is “inmate,” and he’s developed a simple formula for himself and others to make sure that title […]

Stunning images depicting life in segregated Mobile, Ala., in the mid-1950s have resurfaced after decades in storage. Famed photographer Gordon Parks documented the lives of three families living in Mobile, Alabama in 1956. The images he captured were rediscovered shortly after his death in 2012 and are now on display sat the High Museum of […]

Here’s how a booking agency for private parties and events describes Cooper Trent, a local artist from Birmingham: Cooper Trent is a great piano player from Birmingham, Alabama. Having played in college bands at the University of Alabama while obtaining his degree, Cooper can perform hundreds of songs of all varieties. Cooper Trent Piano can […]

Former Auburn University basketball star and Leeds, Alabama, native Charles Barkley is no stranger to making waves with controversial comments. But the NBA hall-of-famer has received a tidal wave of both criticism and support for the various comments he’s made in response to recent events in Ferguson and New York City. Barkley was asked on […]

Ronda Walker opened 2014 with some good news — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley announced in January that he was appointing her to represent District 3 on the Montgomery County Commission. As you would expect, the news was met with congratulations from her friends, family and co-workers, and even her former boss, Congressman Martha Roby. But […]

Auburn University’s Hunger Solutions Institute was recently recognized for leading an initiative to unite universities from across the world to address food insecurity. An article published earlier this month describes how more than 60 university leaders gathered at the United Nations to sign a pledge — the Presidents’ Commitment to Food and Nutrition Security — […]

RAINBOW CITY, Ala. — The perpetually offended out-of-state atheists group that recently targeted an Alabama town’s Christmas parade and football game prayers is back again, this time going after another Alabama town’s Nativity scene. The Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation recently sent a letter to the mayor of Rainbow City, Alabama, urging him to remove […]

PHOTO: #BlackLivesMatter protesters at the entrance to The Summit off Hwy. 280 http://t.co/IkSAhh004h pic.twitter.com/S3zrROaaiK — ABC 33/40 News (@abc3340) December 19, 2014 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The group organizing a Birmingham “Black Lives Matter” protest and die in say they will proceed as planned, in spite of indicating earlier today that they may postpone. A press […]

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — The handcrafted ink pens Joel Lockridge fashions in a small woodworking shop at his Birmingham area home are fueling a mini export boom from Alabama to places all over the world. “I’ve now shipped to 27 countries and counting — some I’ve even had to Google to figure out exactly where I […]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. Judy Bonner, who was named University of Alabama President in late 2012, announced on Wednesday that she will be exiting her current role by the end of Sept. 2015, and plans to return to teaching. Bonner has had a long and distinguished career at UA, including stints as a department chair, […]

(Video above: ABC 33/40 report on “Black Lives Matter” protests scheduled in Birmingham) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Traffic-blocking demonstrations and “die ins” are coming to Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday, according to the buzz on social media. The protests are being designed to mirror many others taking place around the country in the wake of the Michael […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Yellowhammer Multimedia CEO Cliff Sims announced on Wednesday that the company’s content brand, Yellowhammer News, is on pace to average approximately 2 million unique visitors in the fourth quarter of 2014, and now has over 100,000 subscribers to its daily email blast. “The remarkable growth we are experiencing can be attributed to […]

MONTEVALLO, Ala. — The University of Montevallo is experiencing quite a boom under the leadership of its relatively new president, Dr. John Stewart, who arrived on campus in 2010. Since then, the school has seen a dramatic increase in student enrollment, with a 25 percent boost in its freshman class. Overall growth in the total […]

(Video above: Google’s 2014 “Year in Search”) Each year, Google calculates the top trending searches worldwide and releases them in it’s annual ‘Year in Search‘ feature. By analyzing spikes in search traffic in​ ​over a trillion searches, Google’s annual list aims to reflect the topics and people that defined 2014. In addition to analyzing what […]