“Woodlawn,” the faith and football film set in Birmingham, is getting a worldwide release, thanks to Sony. Faith-based distributor Pure Flix sold the international licensing rights to Sony this week. The film, produced by Birmingham natives Andrew and Jon Erwin, cost $4 million to make and has grossed $14 million in the United States. Thanks […]

https://vimeo.com/97250396 (Video above: How AMK9 got roughly 100 hero dogs back home) When veterans come home from war, we celebrate and honor their service and help them readjust to civilian life. One Alabama company is doing that same thing for America’s four-legged veterans. AMK9, based in Anniston, recently transported 92 service dogs back to the […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Republicans in the Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday overcame a Democratic filibuster to pass a bill to block cities from imposing minimum wage hikes. The bill passed 71-31 and now moves to the Senate, where it will once again face fierce opposition from Democratic lawmakers. Last August the Birmingham City Council […]

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama is on its way to becoming the world leader in motor manufacturing. The plant, located in Huntsville, produced more than 630,000 engines in 2015. The facility increased its numbers from 2014 by 3.5 percent. The plant has reached a number of milestones in the past few years, including creating 125 new […]

Alabama musicians had a huge night at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards yesterday. Artists with Alabama roots won awards in major categories and gave some incredible performances during the live broadcast. The Grammy Awards took place Monday evening in Los Angeles in a two-part ceremony. Most of the awards were given out in the afternoon, […]

The University of Alabama is ranked the second most military-friendly college in the country, according to BestColleges.com, a site that “seeks to empower students by providing the information needed to make informed higher education decisions.” “Since September 11, 2001, enrollment and subsequent retirement of U.S. military has surged, producing millions of new veterans,” explains Best […]

(Video above: Franklin Graham announces the Decision America Tour) MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Franklin Graham, President of Samaritan’s Purse and the son of legendary evangelist Billy Graham, is planning to hold a massive prayer rally on the steps of the Alabama Capitol this April and hopes to use the platform to urge Alabama Christians to support […]

(Video above: Lyric video for Jason Isbell’s “24 Frames”) Alabama native Jason Isbell won two Grammy Awards on Monday, including Best Americana Album for “Something More Than Free” and Best American Roots Song for “24 Frames.” “Thanks to everybody in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, for teaching me how to make music in the first place,” said […]

(Video above: Alabama Shakes “Don’t Wanna Fight” live at Capitol Studios.) Alabama Shakes took home two Grammy Awards Monday, Best Alternative Music Album for “Sound & Color” and Best Rock Song for “Don’t Wanna Fight.” “We never even dreamed of this moment,” said the band’s lead singer, Brittany Howard, as she accepted the trophy for […]

MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Despite headwinds in global markets, Alabama exports in 2015 held steady at near-record levels on growing overseas shipments of products such as transportation equipment, primary metals and machinery. Figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce show that Alabama exports totaled $19.37 billion last year, just below the all-time record of $19.58 billion […]

An Alabama company is going to be the first business to have a factory on Cuban soil in over half a century, according to the Obama administration. The US Treasury Department has approved a two-man, Alabama-based company to build a plant in Cuba that assembles tractors. The factory will build as many as 1,000 tractors […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN-1O_nVZzY (Video above: The adoption surprise that changed one Alabama family forever) For Allison and Josh of Birmingham, Alabama, the old Yiddish proverb, “We plan, God laughs,” rings especially true. “We can remember when we were engaged or early married and we said, ‘We’ll have two, maybe three kids,'” Allison laughs. “Maybe, maybe!” Josh chimes […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Yellowhammer Multimedia announced Monday that Senator Jeff Sessions will deliver remarks to a sold-out crowd at the upcoming Alabama Economic Growth Summit. The Summit, which is set to take place this Thursday and Friday at The Renaissance Ross Bridge Resort in Hoover, will assemble the state’s top leaders in government, business, economic […]

(Video above: UAB’s Dr. David Freedman, left, and Dr. Craig Wilson discuss the Zika virus and its potential to spread in Alabama.) By Bob Blalock Media coverage and public concern have ratcheted higher as the Zika virus spreads across the world and to the United States and Alabama. Friday, two UAB experts with broad experience […]

(Video above: Polaris introducing the 2016 Slingshot) When Alabama’s new Polaris manufacturing facility gets up and running this spring, some of the workers will be assembling a vehicle that more closely resembles something off the set of a Batman movie than it does the world-class off-road vehicles Polaris is best known for. The Polaris Slingshot […]

Alabama scientists were instrumental to the confirmation of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity this week, sending the scientific community into a state of euphoria. Scientists confirmed the presence of gravitational waves after observing two black holes colliding. This discovery has created global excitement in the scientific community and could change science as we know it. […]

Apparently some Alabamians are paying to cuddle with “professional” strangers. CuddleFix, which launched in Birmingham last year, connects clients with CuddlePros – people who are willing to snuggle with strangers on an hourly basis. Clients pay CuddlePros $60 an hour to snuggle on their couch or bed. Overnight sessions can cost up to $400. Amy […]

An Alabama mom has invented a new shopping cart that will change the lives of families with special needs children. Drew Ann Long, from Alabaster, created “Caroline’s Cart,” a shopping cart built specifically for children with special needs. This year the cart will be available in Target stores nationwide. Target has been testing the cart […]

By Kelli M. Dugan Broetje Automation, the latest original equipment manufacturer to support the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility, has set up shop officially at Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley. Roger Wehner, executive director for the Mobile Airport Authority, said Broetje Automation’s M-Technologie division is starting small with a two-man operation and has taken the last available […]

Most State Troopers don’t go to work expecting to help deliver a baby that day. But Alabama State Trooper Michael Kesler got to experience the miracle of birth in a unique way over the weekend. Kesler pulled over a speeding vehicle in Limestone County on Sunday and quickly realized why it was speeding. The woman […]

By Gilbert Nicholson Alabama Power security officer Greg Coleman had a 23-year career with the Birmingham Police Department, and always wondered why the Fire Department guys got all the love. Now he knows. Coleman awoke around 3 a.m. Feb. 5 to the cries of a neighbor on Blocker Drive in Bessemer shouting that a house […]

A movie depicting the life of Alabama-born Jesse Owens is being released on February 19th. Focus Features’ “Race” stars Stephan James (Selma) as Owens and Jason Sudeikis (Saturday Night Live) as Ohio State track coach Larry Snyder. Jesse Owens was an Olympic athlete who traveled to the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, Germany, during the […]

By Kelli M. Dugan In less than one week the crowds will be gone, the barricades will be loaded onto city trailers and the streets will show few signs – save for stray beads dangling from lofty live oak branches – that Mardi Gras 2016 attracted nearly one million people to downtown Mobile. But even […]

By Alec Harvey Forty years ago, Birmingham’s Louise Fletcher made history at the Academy Awards, winning the Oscar for best actress and giving part of her acceptance speech in sign language for her deaf parents. This year, a week before the Oscars on Feb. 28, she’s receiving another honor – the Mary Pickford Award from […]