Both remaining Alabama 6th Congressional District candidates got a boost today by landing sought-after endorsements. Gary Palmer garnered the support of former rival Will Brooke, and Paul DeMarco earned the backing of the National Rifle Association. RELATED: DeMarco vs. Palmer for all the marbles; how we got here and what to watch for next Brooke […]

Employees at Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS) were fired after attempting to cover up the fact that veterans were being forced to wait far too long to receive care. CAVHCS director James Talton said that several members of the VA staff had falsified documents to keep the long wait times a secret. But […]

Twitter was abuzz over the weekend with news that Birmingham, Alabama was one of the six cities that submitted a bid to host the Democratic National Convention in 2016, joining Cleveland, Columbus, New York, Philadelphia and Phoenix. The Democratic National Committee back in April invited 15 cities to make a proposal, and these six responded […]

(VIDEO: Yellowhammer travels to Uganda to capture the Sozo story) Sozo is a Greek word that means to save, to nurture, to rescue. You will quickly see in the video above that no word could better describe what Sozo Children, a non-profit organization started in Birmingham, Alabama, is doing for children 7,869 miles away in […]

This week details have emerged about the plan to release five former Taliban commanders from U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. President Obama expressed surprise when the exchange was met with widespread, bi-partisan criticism, rather than the universal celebration the White House first tried to project. He called it […]

The percentage of Americans participating in the U.S. workforce remains the lowest its been in decades, but the economy did add 217,000 non-farm jobs in May, slightly more than economists were expecting, according to numbers released Friday morning by The Bureau of Labor Statistics. The labor participation rate is the variable that makes unemployment numbers […]

The crisis at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) is a tragedy. Brave men and women died waiting for care that never came from the country they sacrificed so much to defend. But the problems represented at this agency are longstanding. While it is true that this President inherited many of the systemic issues present […]

The Central Intelligence Agency, the principle U.S. government agency tasked with intelligence-gathering overseas, joined Twitter on Friday and immediately went viral with its first tweet. We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet. — CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014 The agency also joined Facebook, further expanding its social media presence outside […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said Thursday that he plans to launch a legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest decision to place stricter regulations on U.S. coal plants, which he says constitutes a direct threat to Alabama jobs. “The Obama administration’s EPA ruling to cut carbon emissions at power plants […]

Global Yodel, a website that “explores destinations, places, cultures, people and products around the world from the perspective of locals,” has awarded Greensboro, Alabama a spot on their list of the “18 Most Underrated Cities In The U.S.” The list, which was published by The Huffington Post, includes “incredible places that rarely make the top […]

Some people are torn on the Bowe Bergdahl story. I am not one of them. I see a traitor who cost American soldiers lives when they went out and searched for him. Leave no soldier behind. Absolutely! Deserters? They’re on their own. What do you think? Let us know in the comment section below or […]

(Above: Sen. Sessions discusses the Taliban prisoner swap with Matt Murphy) As a guest this morning on Matt Murphy’s Birmingham-area talk radio program, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said he believes the Obama Administration made a “colossal error” in negotiating a prisoner swap with the Taliban. Key national security staffers from the White House hosted a […]

Alabama State Rep. Harry Shiver (R-Bay Minette) easily beat back a primary challenger on Tuesday, winning 60 percent of the vote to all but assure himself of himself a third term in the Legislature. Upon getting news of his victory, Shiver lashed out at some of the conservatives who opposed him during the election. “That […]

The Alabama Education Association (AEA) had a tough day on Tuesday. After the traditionally Democratic-leaning group spent roughly $7 million dollars to influence Republican primary elections, they weren’t able to win any statewide races or senate contests, and only picked up a handful of low-profile house seats. RELATED: Alabama’s Republican primary was an unmitigated disaster […]

Alabama voters sent a clear message on Tuesday that they are not interested in returning Montgomery to the Alabama Education Association’s control. After spending $7 million on a wide variety of races around the state, the AEA was only able to pick up a small handful of low-profile state house seats. But as important as […]

The News in 90 Seconds is a Yellowhammer feature that takes a complex issue and boils it down into a short video to make it more understandable. Today we’re recapping Alabama’s 2014 Alabama primary elections. Check out the video above. The transcript of the voiceover is below and includes links to Yellowhammer’s coverage of each […]

With very little drama taking place in any statewide campaigns, the battle over Alabama’s 6th Congressional District seat has been the marquee race of this primary season. Things got off to a strange start on Monday, Sept. 30 of last year when 11-term incumbent congressman Spencer Bachus broke the news live on Fox 6 that he […]

The months leading up to last night’s Alabama Republican primary elections were engulfed by a tsunami of negative advertising. The ads, which were delivered to voters via television, direct mail, radio, the Internet and over the phone, were designed to drown Republican incumbents with wave after wave of attacks. Many of them were paid for […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Obama Administration’s decision to release five “mid- to high-level officials from the Taliban regime” in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl endangers deployed military personnel and threatens national security, Reps. Martha Roby (R-AL2) and Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) said today. “Today our soldiers fighting in Afghanistan are in greater danger because of […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), today announced that a Senate Appropriations subcommittee allocated nearly $18 billion to NASA for the 2015 Fiscal Year, including $1.7 billion allocated to rocket development for the Space Launch System (SLS) currently underway at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Sen. Shelby is Vice Chairman […]

One Alabama bakery has created a groom’s cake that will go down in history as one of the all-time greats, just like the scene it almost perfectly recreates. Cobalt Confections delivered the cake over the weekend to newly-married Billy Gilley of Chelsea, Ala. The cake is an incredible recreation of Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium in the […]

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) took to the floor of the Senate on Monday to blast the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to place stricter regulations on U.S. coal plants. “Median income is down in America per family by $2,300. Your wages are down, your job prospects are down, unemployment remains exceedingly high, and we are […]

The Alabama New South Alliance (ALSA), a sister organization of the Alabama New South Coalition, whose stated goal is to promote “progressive” ideals and legislation, has issued a surprise sample ballot encouraging its members to abandon the Democratic primary and instead cast their ballots for Republicans. In 2012, the ALSA endorsed a straight Democratic ticket, […]

By: Dr. John Hill As the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continue to be implemented, there are now more signs that the Administration’s labyrinthine healthcare program has the potential to cripple the vulnerable populations it had originally promised to help. Earlier this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report estimating […]