Koch Foods has announced an $80 million expansion at an Alabama plant that is expected to bring around 200 jobs to the area. The Gadsden Times reports that company announced the move Tuesday.

7. Another scandal for the Catholic Church, this time in Pennsylvania — Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro says that over 300 priests molested over a thousand children and the Catholic churches knew about it and covered it up. — Shapiro says, “The cover-up was sophisticated. And all the while, shockingly, church leadership kept records of the […]

The Marshall University quarterback who was part of the team’s return after the 1970 plane crash that killed 75 players has died. Reggie Oliver was 66.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday named longtime state employee Kelly Butler as acting Director of the Alabama Department of Finance to replace outgoing Director Clinton Carter, who resigned this summer to become the Chief Financial Officer for the University of North Carolina System. According to a press release by the governor’s office, Butler began his […]

There is one particular word that Dr. John Christy turns to frequently for describing climate science: murky. It’s a point of view foundational to his own research, and a message underpinning each of his twenty appearances before various congressional committees. “It’s encouraging because they wouldn’t invite you back unless your message was compelling and not […]

Alabama state Rep. David Standridge (R-Hayden) was interviewed Tuesday on “Fox and Friends First,” where he discussed the state’s new law that allows “In God We Trust” to be displayed in public buildings. Standridge, who sponsored the legislation in the state legislature, explained that the idea came in part out of recent debate about school safety. He said […]

During the rise of the Tea Party, the American media pretended the group was violent and was going to get people hurt. There are multiple instances where the media disingenuously tied violent acts that were unrelated to the group or others on the American right; the facts didn’t matter. Now, liberals are in the street […]

Monday, The University of Alabama posted a video of their campus police department participating in a lip sync battle against Clemson University. UAPD chose “Sweet Home Alabama” as their song and, afterward, challenged all other SEC schools to join in on the competition. Watch the full video here. DYK: UAPD was challenged by the @ClemsonUniv […]

Tuesday, Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-01) announced that illegal immigrants would not be housed at Navy airfields in Baldwin County. Congressman Byrne opposed the housing of 10,000 illegal immigrants at Naval Outlying Field Silverhill and Naval Outlying Field Wolf in south Baldwin County. Byrne, along with other members of the Alabama and Florida Congressional delegation, sent […]

After a liberal heckler hurled an object and expletives at Sen. Doug Jones at a town hall Monday, Alabama’s junior senator compared the incident, which ended with police officers hauling the agitator out, to peaceful conservative efforts to persuade Jones to vote to confirm President Trump’s nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. AL.com’s Howard Koplowitz […]

A rural Alabama high school is ending its tradition of playing “Dixie” at football games. John Mullins, superintendent of city schools in Arab, said he made the decision to quit playing the song at Arab (AY-rab) High School, but not because of any “external pressure.”

Each August, the House of Representatives typically enters a period of recess known as the August District Work Period. This is time set aside for Members of Congress to travel across their home districts visiting with the people they represent. For me, this is incredibly valuable time that I can spend listening to my constituents […]

One of the hot-stove topics making its way around Alabama is the possibility of a new east-west Interstate highway through the center of Alabama. The proposal is what people are calling “Interstate 14,” which would run parallel with U.S. Highway 80, crossing into Alabama from the east in Phenix City and passing by Tuskegee, Montgomery, […]

http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/8_13_18_West_AlabamaWorks_.mp3 The workforce in West Alabama is changing with the help of West AlabamaWorks! They want to let people in the workforce know that being in healthcare does not strictly mean you are just a doctor or a nurse. There are hundreds of other job opportunities out there in hospitals, doctors offices, and insurance. Peggy […]

An Alabama high school teacher who was paid nearly $130,000 while on leave fighting charges that she had sex with students has resigned. The Decatur city school board accepted the resignation of Carrie Cabri Witt on Monday.

Ivry Hall has a tale to tell – one that is too unbelievable and too tragic to be anything but real. But it is who life’s challenges have made him, and where Hall is going from here, that he wants to be his life’s story. Chicago born-and-raised, Hall just turned 18 last month. “I grew […]

A former police officer in Alabama who pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and burglary has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Montgomery Advertiser reports 51-year-old Leon Todd Townson was sentenced Monday.

An Alabama company has a five-year, $522 million extension to an Army contract for inflatable satellite antenna systems. GATR Technologies Inc. of Huntsville first won the contract in 2013.

7. A Mexican restaurant in Houston is under fire for daring to serve Attorney General Jeff Sessions — El Tiempo Cantina posted a photo of Sessions and its owner on social media. It was immediately attacked for serving the AG. Eventually, the restaurant apologized for posting the photo and shut down their social media accounts. — […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Monday pushed back on a recent report by the Associated Press that asserted the state’s new law allowing “In God We Trust” to be displayed in public schools is “expected” to face legal challenges. In March, the state legislature approved a bill that took effect June 1 allowing such […]

President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019, which gives American military personnel their largest pay raise in nine years. “We must protect those who protect us,” President Trump said in a press release. “When our service members are in uniform, it is our obligation to ensure […]

By: Dexter Hinton, Mayor of Marion, Alabama When I was elected in late 2016 as Mayor of Marion, I knew there were certain areas in which our town needed to improve. One was education and work preparedness for those who did not want to attend a four-year college. We had gaps that needed to be […]

Five years after the Alabama Legislature passed a law to cut red tape, state agencies are still culling their regulations. Tuesday, the Alabama Department of Revenue will hold a hearing in Montgomery on a proposal to repeal a regulation concerning a property tax break the legislature gave to senior citizens in Baldwin County who meet […]

The Alabama Department of Public Health issued a press release on Monday to clarify that it is merely investigating potential cases of the Zika and West Nile viruses in the state, following an incorrect media report stating that a case of the Zika virus has been confirmed in Pelham. WBRC reported on Monday that the Shelby […]