7. Sessions asks that people give thanks for law enforcement On the heels of the murder of the Lowndes County Sheriff, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is calling on people to remember law enforcement is who we rely on in times of danger, highlighting that assaults on police are up 22% since 2014. In an […]

Are you as excited as I am? Of course you are! The 2019 Iron Bowl is only days away, and if you are like me, you are playing the big game over and over in your mind in a futile effort to determine how the game will turn out. Of course if we knew that, […]

The college football playoff committee announced its latest rankings, and this week may have revealed more about the committee’s thinking than any other so far. The SEC placed three teams in the top 10 with LSU at No. 2, Georgia at No. 4 and Alabama at No. 5. The committee ranked the Auburn Tigers No. […]

Governor Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) announced Tuesday that four teams will have the chance to propose how they would build the three new prisons that are the centerpiece of Ivey’s plan to improve the state’s much-maligned correctional facilities. The state is expecting to receive the detailed proposals in the spring […]

As we gather around the table this year to give thanks for our loved ones and many blessings, we should all pause to give thanks for the men and women of law enforcement. Every time they put on a uniform, neither they, nor their families, know if they will come home. Every day, our law […]

Limestone County’s 1818 Farms has been named America’s ‘Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year’ by Amazon through their first ever United States Small Business Spotlight Awards. Located in Mooresville, 1818 Farms before being announced as the winner was named one of six finalists in the category out of more than 1,300 small businesses nominated across […]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a prescription for high drug prices, but this is one case where the cure is worse than the disease. Her plan would let the federal government set the prices that Medicare and private health plans pay for drugs. This means that a marketplace now regulated by competition and consumer choice would […]

Alabama State Senate Majority Leader Greg Reed (R-Jasper) announced Tuesday that his communications director and policy advisor, John Rogers, will be joining Jeff Sessions’ campaign for the U.S. Senate. “John Rogers has been a trusted confidant since joining my office in 2015. He has done an outstanding job directing the communications and policy strategy for […]

On Monday, Governor Kay Ivey ordered all state agencies to fly their flags at half staff out of respect for Lowndes County Sheriff “Big John” Williams, who was tragically killed in the line of duty on Saturday, November 23. “We offer our heartfelt condolences and prayers to his family, the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department and […]

The Maxwell Football Club on Monday announced the three 2019 finalists for both the 83rd Maxwell Award for the Collegiate Player of the Year and the 25th Chuck Bednarik Award for the Outstanding Defensive Player of the Year. Each list of three college football players contains a tie to the Yellowhammer State. First, senior Auburn […]

MONTGOMERY — Sources close to the investigations have confirmed to Yellowhammer News that LEO Technologies’ proprietary Verus Analytical System helped lead to the respective recoveries of both the remains of Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney and Aniah Blanchard. Remains believed to be Blanchard’s were recovered on Monday, as reported by Yellowhammer News. McKinney’s remains were recovered last month. […]

Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday formally offered her support to Operation Iron Ruck, during which approximately 80 students and support personnel from the University of Alabama Campus Veterans Association and Auburn University Student Veterans Association will travel on foot from Tuscaloosa to Auburn starting on Wednesday and culminating the day of the Iron Bowl. The effort […]

7. Good dog honored at the White House Conan, the dog that was part of the mission to kill ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and was injured, has been honored at the White House where he visited President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. During the visit, Trump said that […]

GREENVILLE — On Monday evening, four of the Republican U.S. Senate candidates vying for a shot at running against U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) appeared at a forum at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College to make their cases to the assembled voters. Haleyville businessman Stanley Adair, U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope), Secretary of State John […]

Imagine getting a diagnosis that would change your life, and how you would respond. Sara Franklin was diagnosed with Epilepsy in the midst of raising a child, being a wife and pursuing a successful career. When she found out she had this new disease, she had a choice: hide from it, or fight it with […]

The Alabama Farmers Federation’s political action committee, FarmPAC, on Monday announced endorsements of candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Yellowhammer State’s March 3, 2020 primary election. FarmPAC, as of this point, still has not made an endorsement in the open races in Alabama’s First Congressional District and Second Congressional District. However, one non-incumbent […]

Club for Growth Action, the federal super PAC associated with the Washington, D.C.- based Club for Growth, is set to run a television advertisement opposing Congressman Bradley Byrne’s (AL-01) Republican 2020 U.S. Senate candidacy. According to a source with direct knowledge, the ad, which is already available online here, will first run on TV during […]

Prattville businesswoman Jessica Taylor, a candidate for Alabama’s 2nd congressional district, was endorsed Monday by the Value in Electing Women Political Action Committee (VIEW PAC). According to the organization’s website, View PAC “was founded in 1997 by female Republican Members of Congress and professional women to help elect qualified, viable Republican women to Congress.” The […]

With U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) vacating his seat to run for the U.S. Senate, a wide-open shot at a position for U.S. Congress has been left for potential officeseekers in the Republican-leaning district. Now that the qualifying deadline has come and gone, there are five candidates officially vying for the Republican nod: Mobile County […]

Alabama researchers are studying new ways to recycle plastics. Troy University says its recently established Center for Material and Manufacturing Sciences has received a $2.7 million grant to look at new methods of recycling plastic waste.

For the last three years, the American economy has been humming, incomes are growing, unemployment rates are falling and the average American is doing better. This is not up for debate; I don’t need to provide you with links. You know it, I know it, the media and their Democrats know it. So why does […]

Researchers are once again trying to determine whether Alabama’s Black Belt region has a problem with intestinal parasites called hookworm. A study led by University of Alabama at Birmingham is recruiting participants for a program that will screen hundreds of children in Wilcox and Perry counties for signs of hookworm.

Representative Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope), a candidate for U.S. Senate, announced in a press release on Monday that he is signing The Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayers Protection Pledge. The pledge amounts to a public promise that a candidate will never support a net tax increase on the American people while in office. Byrne is the […]

A source with direct knowledge on Monday confirmed to Yellowhammer News that authorities have recovered what are believed to be the remains of Aniah Blanchard, the Alabama college student who has been missing since last being seen in Lee County on October 23. Blanchard, 19, is a Homewood native and student at Southern Union Community […]