TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Over the weekend, Alabama head football coach Nick Saban was interviewed on EWTN’s News Nightly about the role that his faith plays in his development of championship teams. “I don’t think there’s any question about the fact that character, moral development are all a part of leadership,” Saban said. Saban discussed how […]

Imagine all the blinds closed on the windows of a dimly lit room. Twenty leaders from different churches in the area sat in a circle on the floor with their Bibles open. Some of them had sweat on their foreheads after walking for miles to get there. Others were dirty from the dust in the […]

A rare piece of Alabama space history is heading to auction next week. Last year a lunar rover prototype originally built in the 1960s was discovered in Huntsville. The moon buggy, called the Local Scientific Survey Model, was found in a scrapyard, but now it will be sold at an auction where it is expected […]

LONDON – Wounded U.S. Marine Corps dog Lucca was presented with Great Britain’s highest honor for military animals this week. Lucca, a 12-year-old German shepherd, and her handler, Gunnery Sgt. Christopher Willingham, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, travelled to London to receive the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals Dickin Medal, which is awarded for animal bravery. This […]

Fairhope, Alabama has been named as one of the top ten happiest seaside towns in America. The ranking comes from Coastal Living magazine’s fifth annual list of happiest seaside towns. An online vote placed Fairhope as the fifth happiest seaside town, with Stuart, Florida coming in at number one. Here’s what Coastal Living has to […]

MONTGOMERY, AL— Two-time Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning will keynote a moderated Q&A at the 2016 Jimmy Rane Charity Golf Tournament Banquet, Thursday, May 19 in Montgomery. Founded in 2000 by Jimmy Rane, an entrepreneur and successful business owner, the Jimmy Rane Foundation has awarded more than 280 college scholarships to outstanding and deserving students. […]

Helen Keller supporters started a campaign this week to make the famous Alabamian the first woman represented on the new U.S. $10 bill. Last year, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it would redesign the $10 bill by adding a woman, and asked for public input on what woman should grace the new 10. Soon […]

The Mobile chapter of the national Young Entrepreneurs Academy recently held a competition for local students to show off their unique product ideas, and two students walked away with $1,000 in startup cash. Dominique Williams and Isabella Fank, students at the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science, won the money and the chance to compete […]

The Jefferson County chief coroner and medical examiner is the newest recipient of the nation’s most prestigious award given to medical examiners. The American Academy of Forensic Sciences presented Alabama’s Dr. Gregory Davis with the 2016 Milton Helpern Award at the 68th Annual Scientific Meeting held in Las Vegas, Nevada in February. “I was humbled, […]

As the tax deadline quickly approaches, some low-income families in Alabama have received help filing their taxes from Auburn students, potentially saving them hundreds of dollars. This semester, 87 students in the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business have spent over 1,000 hours helping families file their 2015 tax returns. In order to participate, the […]

As American Idol closes its 15th and final season this week, let’s look back on the impact Alabama has had on the reality singing competition. Over the past 15 years, Alabamians have fared well on Idol. The Yellowhammer State has produced two winners, two runners-up, and four other finalists, giving Alabama the 5th highest number […]

HUNTSVILLE – The Rocket City is looking to be the landing site for a new model of spaceship in the near future. Colorado-based space company Sierra Nevada is taking steps to make Huntsville the only city where their new mini-space shuttle Dream Chaser will come back to earth. Last week, government, business, and academic leaders […]

A nationwide culinary competition for NASA announced its top 10 finalists this week and two Alabama teams made the list. The teams, from The Huntsville Center for Technology and Hewitt-Trussville High School, will compete in designing a dish to send to astronauts living on the International Space Station. The NASA HUNCH Culinary Challenge finals will […]

There was a time when one out of every eight pairs of socks sold around the world was made in Fort Payne, Alabama. Sadly, globalization, cheap foreign labor, free-trade agreements, and the 2008 financial crisis shut down all but a handful of the Sock Capitol’s 120-plus sock mills. But Alabama native and second-generation sock maker […]

Alabama’s own space archeologist may have discovered a new Viking site in North America that would rewrite history. Sarah Parcak, researcher and professor of archeology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, recently worked with a team that discovered what could be the first new Norse site in North America in over fifty years. The […]

Niche.com, a site that seeks to “make choosing a neighborhood, college, or K-12 school a more transparent process” by “providing reviews and insight from everyday experts,” released its list of the Alabama high schools that are most effective at making their students college ready. The 2016 College Readiness Ranking provides a comprehensive assessment of the […]

PICKENS COUNTY, Ala. — A husband and wife that taught at the same school have both been accused of having inappropriate relations with students. James Franklin “Jamie” Parker III was charged with “school employee engaging in a sex act with a student under 19” just two days after his wife, Charli Parker, was arrested for […]

Patients at UAB’s Intensive Care Unit have started to see a different breed of visitors in the hospital over the past few weeks. A new project, started by UAB Nursing grad student Meredith Palmer, brings therapy dogs to ICU patients. Palmer started the project to see what effects the dogs had on patients and staff […]

In the great Alabama migration, more residents are moving to the edges of the state. Other areas have not been so lucky. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the populations of Baldwin County, Madison County, and Lee County are all rapidly growing. In fact, these three counties have almost as much growth as the next […]

An education expert has declared Alabama “ground zero” for inappropriate teacher-student relationships. Terry Abbott, the former Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Education, came to that conclusion after the consulting firm he now chairs conducted a study on such relationships nationwide. The Alabama Department of Education is tracking the number of investigations they’ve […]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Social media lit up over the weekend with reports of Alabama Governor Robert Bentley being expelled from his church after audio recordings exposed his emotional — and, according to Bentley’s own words, physical — affair with his senior advisor Rebekah Mason. “While church discipline is a church family matter, both Governor Robert […]

Harper Lee passed away earlier this year at the age of 89, but death has not stopped the beloved Alabama author from doing what pretty much everyone else does these days: comment on Donald Trump. Back in the summer of 1990, Ms. Lee was staying at Trump’s Taj Mahal hotel in Atlantic City. The author […]

Niche.com, a site that seeks to “make choosing a neighborhood, college, or K-12 school a more transparent process” by “providing reviews and insight from everyday experts,” released its list of the safest high schools in Alabama. The 2016 Safest Public High Schools ranking provides a comprehensive assessment of the health and safety of a public […]

SELMA – “Hi-Ho, Sliver! Away! … as long as we change your diaper first” The city of Selma is doubling down to make sure horses wear diapers in public. In December of 2013, the city council adopted an ordinance saying that anyone walking or riding a horse down a public street had to fit the […]