WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Huntsville team including business leaders, economic development specialists and elected officials is representing Alabama’s “Rocket City” at this week’s International Astronautical Congress (IAC), a major conference focusing on space. Huntsville is the only community to participate among 170-plus corporate, state and national exhibitors at the 70th annual IAC, which has attracted agency […]

Boeing engineers and technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have now structurally attached the first of four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines to the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon. Per an announcement by NASA this week, integration of […]

More than once in my life I’ve been reminded there is no such thing as a free lunch. I first learned that lesson from my parents and you probably did, too. Everything has a cost to someone. Whether you’re handing money to a cashier directly or paying a higher utility rate because of government regulations, […]

The Yellowhammer State boasts three of the 22 total contenders for the 2019 Paul “Bear” Bryant Award, which is presented by the American Heart Association annually to college football’s top head coach. The University of Alabama’s Nick Saban, Auburn University’s Gus Malzahn and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Bill Clark on Wednesday were all […]

7. NYC Bar demands Barr recuse, seems unlikely  U.S. Attorney General William Barr has been assisting with the Department of Justice’s probe into the phone call President Donald Trump had with the president of Ukraine, but now the New York City Bar Association is demanding that Barr recuse himself. The statement put out by the […]

One of the prominent rumors in the early going of the race for the GOP nomination for the 2020 U.S. Senate election has been about the possibility of former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions entering that contest, which would put him in position to return to the U.S. Senate in his old seat. Sessions has […]

University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban is known for getting snippy when he does not like questions posed to him by members of the media. On Wednesday, while speaking at a weekly press conference, Saban almost recreated another well-known coach’s most famous — or infamous — diatribe. WVUA 23’s Gary Harris was one […]

Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) on Wednesday voted for a resolution authored by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that would undermine a key part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. S.J. Res. 50 was ultimately defeated but not before Alabama’s junior senator joined 42 others in voting “yea.” The resolution would have […]

The Alabama Association for Justice (ALAJ) this week held the latest in its series of events celebrating the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution. The ALAJ, one of the state’s largest legal organizations, hosted events in Montgomery and Lee Counties to celebrate the anniversary of the Bill of Rights and to honor judges, lawyers and judicial […]

At the White House’s request, Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) and 22 other House Freedom Caucus members on Tuesday met with President Donald J. Trump in the White House Cabinet Room to talk about Democrats’ ongoing impeachment efforts. However, that is not all that was discussed. Brooks, the only Alabama congressman in the room at the […]

DrunkAubie returns to talk the Arkansas win, the big games from the weekend and previews the LSU game. The show opens with the a reenactment from the Alabama-Tennessee game that sheds some light on the shady officiating. RIP the Sooner Schooner, Alabama fans really love lights, Joe Burrow shows his butt on national television and […]

Dynetics, which has been headquartered in Huntsville since the company’s founding in 1974, continues to emerge as an international leader in the space industry. A high-technology solutions company with impressive portfolios in the aerospace and defense sector, Dynetics on Wednesday announced a partnership with Hypergiant, an artificial intelligence (AI) products and solutions company. According to a […]

Congressmen Bradley Byrne (AL-01) and Mo Brooks (AL-05) were among a group of over 20 Republican representatives who on Wednesday charged a secure Capitol room — known as a SCIF — in order to protest and disrupt a closed-door impeachment hearing that was underway. According to reporting by CNN and other outlets, Deputy Assistant Secretary […]

U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) was one of the conservative congressmen who attempted to see the transcripts from the latest impeachment inquiry hearings involving acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor. https://twitter.com/TheDaleJackson/status/1187013810437218309 The media and their Democrats are asking the public and even members of Congress to trust them and let the process play out […]

This year’s legislative session saw another opportunity for Alabama to breakthrough and finally get a lottery come and go. The Senate passed a bill but the House could not come to terms with the Senate version and Alabamians will have to wait at least one more year before they will see lottery terminals showing up […]

Dr. Barry Paul Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., has been named director of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). According to a Tuesday announcement, Sleckman, currently an associate director of New York’s Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, will begin his new role at UAB on January 6. He is […]

7. The other investigation continues into the origins of the Russia investigation The investigation into the intelligence and law enforcement communities that handled the Russia probe is being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham and has been expanding. A House GOP source has said that this investigation could help Trump. The source told Fox News, […]

Congressmen Robert Aderholt (AL-04) and Bradley Byrne (AL-01) on Tuesday evening gave separate one-minute speeches on the U.S. House floor, slamming the process being used by Democrats in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Aderholt’s remarks focused on the secretive nature of the Democrats’ proceedings, mentioning closed-door hearings that all members of Congress and […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Investigators searching through garbage found the body of a 3-year-old girl who was missing more than a week, and authorities are charging two people with murder, police said Tuesday. Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith told a news conference that the remains of Kamille McKinney were located in a trash bin that […]

The Epilepsy Foundation of Alabama announced this week that it will hold the Walk to END EPILEPSY in Birmingham on November 2, 2019. The Walk to END EPILEPSY, which will be held at Railroad Park from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., brings the community together “to affect change through care, advocacy, research, and education.” The […]

Sometimes politics gives us heavyweight battles that we can’t help but stop and watch. Nixon vs. Kennedy. Bush vs. Gore. Trump vs. Clinton. Zeigler vs. Ivey? After State Auditor Jim Zeigler killed the I-10 bridge toll in Mobile, he made it clear that his disapproval of Governor Kay Ivey would not stop.

Oh, how time flies. It’s been 10 years since Eddie Conyers had a strong feeling that his days were over. Today at age 91, the University of Alabama football practice official is alive and well, looking back on his 57 years with the football team while each day eagerly reporting to practice at the university […]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will be the “special guests” at a U.S. Senate campaign fundraiser for Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-01) on November 21 in Birmingham. The fundraiser invitation obtained by Yellowhammer News outlines that there will be a VIP reception and a general reception. The VIP reception calls […]

Along with Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), count Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) as an ardent critic of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday tweet comparing the ongoing House impeachment inquiry to a “lynching” of him. Trump tweeted, “So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can […]