WARRIOR, Ala. — When a trio of burglars returned to a rural Alabama neighborhood for a second round of stealing Christmas gifts, they ended up getting more than they bargained for. The Wyatt family returned home last Friday to find that their home had been burglarized, with two of their TVs and several of their […]

WASHINGTON — Speaker of the House John Boehner last week led a ceremony to award Auburn University graduate Bobelle Sconiers Harrell the Congressional Gold Medal, considered alongside the Presidential Medal of Freedom as the United States’ highest civilian honor. Harrel received the medal posthumously for her service in World War II with the Civil Air […]

If you are like me, you probably enjoy spending some of your free time fishing. We are blessed to live in a place so close to one of our world’s great natural treasures: the Gulf. While some of us enjoy fishing as a hobby or for sport, others depend on the industry as their source […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Friday passed the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizing $585 billion for the military next year. Some of the highlights of the bill include $521.3 billion to fund the Pentagon’s base budget and $63.7 billion for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also authorizes $5 billion to […]

HOOVER, Ala. — On the right side of Facebook’s newsfeed is a section titled “trending,” a list of the most-discussed topics on the world’s largest social network at that moment. On Saturday, at the top of the list, right above a Saturday Night Live skit and a bizarre NBA play, was this: “Buffalo Wild Wings: […]

WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Thursday released the Navy’s long anticipated “Small Surface Combatant (SSC) Task Force” report, and it contained good news for Alabama. While full details of the report likely won’t be made available to the public for national security reasons, Secretary Hagel left no doubt that the Navy’s need […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Alabama’s State Climatologist this week urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to readdress the physical science behind its Clean Power Plan, which assumes that carbon dioxide emissions are the driving force behind variations in the Earth’s climate. Dr. John Christy is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — During a speech and subsequent press conference on Thursday, Gov. Robert Bentley for the first time signaled publicly that he would be open to expanding Medicaid. It was a drastic departure from statements the governor made throughout his re-election campaign, and perhaps even more notably, during his 2014 State of the State […]

SYLACAUGA, Ala. – The belt of white marble that runs beneath this central Alabama city once yielded gleaming columns, panels and other architectural elements found in monuments, government buildings, hotels and banks across the nation. For several decades, however, creamy Alabama marble has been in short supply for high-profile commercial and government projects. A new […]

Police officers are expected to protect and serve, but cops often go above and beyond the call of duty. That’s exactly what happened in Tarrant, Ala., on Saturday, when officer William Stacy received a call about a woman trying to steal a dozen eggs from a Dollar General. When Stacy confronted the woman, she said, […]

According to DNAinfo, “Chicago’s leading hyper-local news source,” an unmarked Chicago Police Department squad car that was escorting a “Black Lives Matter” protest to a “die in” on Saturday blared “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd while driving behind protestors. In response, some of the protest’s organizers are now calling the move blatantly racist, while […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley addressed a crowd of over 1,200 farmers at the Alabama Farmers Federation’s 93rd annual meeting in Montgomery over the weekend. In his speech, the governor took the opportunity to thank leaders from the state’s largest industry and to tout the technological innovations that are changing the way farmers […]

Movoto, one of the web’s most-read real estate blogs, this week released a list of the “10 Most Dangerous Places in Alabama.” “Alabama may have a lot going for it—it was the birthplace of greats like Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, and, of course, Channing Tatum, and was even the first state to build a rocket […]

Die-in (noun): a demonstration in which people lie down as if dead. “There is a right way to protest and a wrong way to protest. Laying down in the middle of the road is the wrong way and shame on the politicians who are afraid to stand up and tell them ‘no.'” That is the […]

MOBILE, Ala. — With customer deliveries of Alabama-made Airbus A320 Family aircraft set to begin in 2016, the European manufacturer is counting on its new production facility at Mobile Aeroplex to expand its presence in the world’s largest aviation market, according to Airbus Group Chairman Allan McArtor. “We want to be here permanently and understood […]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Alabama. A wise elf once said the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. At Yellowhammer News we want to do our part in spreading Christmas cheer this year. Here are 10 of the best Christmas performances we could find […]

(Video Above: An ABC 33/40 report on atheists trying to hijack the Piedmont, Ala., Christmas parade) PIEDMONT, Ala. — A group of out-of-state atheist tried to keep an east Alabama town from celebrating the birth of Christ in their Christmas parade. It didn’t work. The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) threatened Piedmont, Ala., with a […]

“Alligators,” ‘East Virginia,” “Graceland.” Those are just a few of the names that Brits assigned to Alabama when given a blank map of the United States. For the second straight year, Buzzfeed asked its London staff to label all 50 states, and the results are a bit of a mixed bag, especially when it comes […]

Alabama has one of the “worst run” state governments in the country, according 24/7 Wall St., a financial news and opinion website. But there are also some positive economic indicators that the state can build on going forward. The Yellowhammer State ranked 41st in a recent study titled “The Best and Worst Run States in […]

“Where in the country is the weather truly the most unpredictable?” That’s the question the statistical wizards at FiveThirtyEight set out to answer this week, and what they found will probably not come as a surprise to most Alabamians: our weather is wild. Birmingham, Alabama, for instance, has the seventh most unpredictable weather of the […]

Alabamians have a good reason to look to the stars tomorrow. If weather permits, NASA will launch its unmanned Orion capsule from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday morning. The Orion spacecraft is at the center of NASA’s plans to send humans deeper into space, and if the mission is successful, […]

We often share far more about our lives on social media than we realize. The things we “like,” comment on and post reveal a lot about who we are. You might not think sharing that BuzzFeed quiz means much, but to companies like Facebook, everything you do online—no matter how “personal”—turns into something incredibly valuable: […]

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, the country switched gears yesterday for Giving Tuesday, a day set aside to encourage generosity and giving. “It’s a simple idea,” says the movement’s website. “Just find a way for your family, your community, your company or your organization to come together and give something more.” Giving […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Citing increased costs brought on by environmental regulations levied under the Obama Administration, Alabama Power Company on Tuesday filed for its first rate increase since 2011. The increase will raise the average household’s monthly bill by $6.78. Public Service Commission President Twinkle Cavanaugh, whose panel is tasked with regulating the state’s utilities, […]