It’s bumper-to-bumper on I-565 headed into Huntsville. Somewhere in downtown Birmingham, a truck driver is cussing how no one will let him merge as I-65 narrows with construction underway at the I-20/59 malfunction junction. A driver of an SUV speeding east on I-10 headed to Gulf Shores with his family has to slam on the […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: PUBLIC SCHOOLS DENY PARENTS RIGHTS TO APPROVE — OR EVEN VIEW –SEX EDUCATION MATERIALS TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I’d like to take you to two separate stories, one out of World Magazine and the other out of The Daily Wire but both, however, have the same theme. […]

Alabama is moving quickly in developing a trained workforce that meets the needs of business, with major changes in recent years in how our workforce development system operates. The process began four years ago when the Alabama Workforce Council recommended a re-alignment of our workforce programs. The Alabama Legislature responded by passing legislation to make […]

Alabama linebacker Terrell Lewis has had surgery to repair a torn knee ligament. Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban says Lewis tore his right ACL last week while training.

The federal government would be required to release records from unsolved criminal cases linked to the civil-rights era under a bill proposed Tuesday. Alabama Democratic U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, a former prosecutor who sent two Ku Klux Klansmen to prison for a racist killing, introduced the legislation, saying existing laws don’t go far enough to […]

Federal transportation officials are investigating after a small plane crashed in an Alabama community, killing the pilot. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says it responded Monday about 7 p.m. in the Macedonia community.

1. President Trump continues to bang on NATO as he arrives for a summit — As Trump arrives in Brussels for his latest meeting with our allies, he launched an old-school attack about how they don’t pay their agreed upon GDP percentage for national security. He also hit Germany for making deals with Russia while portraying […]

A lawsuit challenging Alabama’s lethal injection process took an unexpected turn Tuesday after eight inmate plaintiffs asked to be put to death by the state’s new execution method: inhaling nitrogen gas. The Alabama attorney general’s office and lawyers for inmates submitted a joint motion Tuesday to dismiss the litigation.

Steve Marshall remains unwavering in fighting violent crime and safeguarding the people of Alabama. Last year, Marshall launched the “Initiative on Violent Crime” from the Attorney General’s Office, which focuses on reclaiming, restoring and reviving Alabama communities. “I am determined to reclaim our neighborhoods from the scourge of violent crime, restore the rule of law, […]

Every person – and more so, if we’re absorbing campaign advertising, every politician – has transgressed. As we all know, some transgressions are easy to atone for and others are not so easy. Political transgressions are, by all accounts, among the most difficult to atone for, but we will see about that in next Tuesday’s […]

Over the last year and a half, our unified government has taken big steps to unleash our economy and foster growth here in the United States. Because of this work, our economy is strong today. In fact, since the enactment of our historic tax overhaul six months ago, more than one million new jobs have […]

During the 2017 special election, the Alabama media was hell-bent on telling Alabama voters that Sen. Doug Jones was a moderate. You could justify not voting for Roy Moore because Jones wasn’t for “full term abortion” (because the phrase doesn’t exist or something). It was a sham and we all knew it, including his enablers in the […]

I rent my bus out on Airbnb in Montgomery and my guest from California, Dr. Alison Borkowska, let me film our visit to the National Lynching Memorial, formally known as the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. The memorial made a profound impact on us both and sparked worthwhile conversations with other visitors. WATCH: Chason Smitherman, Sr. […]

Alabama officials say two people have been bitten by foxes, and concerns about such attacks and rabies are growing. The state Department of Public Health tells news outlets in a Monday statement that both bites were reported in Robertsdale.

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript:                         UNION MANDATE STRUCK DOWN BY SUPREME COURT TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, one of the final decisions of the latest term of the Supreme Court came out about a week ago. It ruled that government workers cannot be compelled to contribute to labor unions. The 5-4 decision […]

An Atlanta-based technology company plans to construct a data center at an old steel-making site in downtown Birmingham. DC BLOX announced Monday it will use the 27-acre site of a former Trinity Steel plant to locate a facility that could be valued at some $785 million over the next decade. The initial, 31,000-square-foot Birmingham data […]

Steve Marshall remains unwavering in fighting violent crime and safeguarding the people of Alabama. Last year, Marshall launched the “Initiative on Violent Crime” from the Attorney General’s Office, which focuses on reclaiming, restoring and reviving Alabama communities. “I am determined to reclaim our neighborhoods from the scourge of violent crime, restore the rule of law, […]

In a Monday appearance on Fox Business Network, Alabama Secretary of Commerce Greg Canfield reiterated his concerns about President Trump’s newly-enacted tariff regime, saying that it threatens Alabama industry. “We end up exporting about $10.9 billion worth of value in vehicles to 88 countries across the globe,” Canfield told host Stuart Varney. “So we’re concerned […]

Alabama has dismissed linebacker VanDarius Cowan from the team for violating unspecified team rules. Coach Nick Saban announced the decision Monday in a statement, saying “each of us has a responsibility to represent the University of Alabama in a first-class way, and failure to meet those standards can’t be tolerated.”

Authorities say a burglary suspect died after being apprehended by a police dog in Montgomery, Alabama. A police statement says a canine unit responded to a report of a burglary in progress early Sunday, and the animal apprehended a man inside a home.

1. Alabama leaders react to President Trump’s nomination — Governor Kay Ivey e-mailed, “Judge Kavanaugh clearly understands the proper role of a judge is to interpret the law as it is written and apply the law impartially.” — The ALGOP statement read, “”[T]he Alabama Republican Party calls on all members of the U.S. Senate, including […]

A week before the GOP runoff, challenger Troy King filed an ethics complaint Monday against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, saying the heavy financial support he has received from the Republican Attorneys General Association is illegal. However, a lawyer for the Republican group called the complaint a “desperate ploy of a flailing campaign.”

Negative advertising. You know it, you hate it, but it works. For many years in this country, negative advertisements have been splashed across the pages of newspapers, the screens of televisions and radio airwaves. These types of advertisements have become indispensable in the political realm and often lead a candidate to success. As a millennial, […]

Katie Cobb of Mobile proved her bocce skills to the world once again last week when she brought home a gold medal in Team Bocce and a silver in Doubles Bocce. Cobb’s attendance at the 2018 Seattle games was her second national Special Olympics appearance. In 2014, she brought home a gold in the single […]