Seven Alabama State Parks earned nine Hall of Fame honors from TripAdvisor and 12 parks in the 22-park system earned Certificates of Excellence from the world’s largest travel website. Overall, the parks received 16 Certificates of Excellence for 2018. To earn Hall of Fame recognition, a park, attraction or business must have received a Certificate of Excellence for five […]

The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South will be offered at auction after being turned into a work of art and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean twice. Guernsey’s auctioneers said it will offer the house where Parks’ family lived in a midsummer auction in New York City that also will feature […]

1. President Trump declares North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat; anger at this is odd — Trump has offered up some, probably premature, words, tweeting that North Korea was “no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea”, also saying “everybody can now feel much safer”, but there are no concrete plans yet. — 54 percent […]

Two men who are accused of breaking into a church in Alabama have been arrested. Birmingham police Sgt. Johnny Williams tells AL.com that members of Nichols Temple A.M.E. Church arrived at the building in the morning hours of June 5 to find damage to several items including toilets and urinals.

Wednesday on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) called on his colleagues to support funding for additional production of a U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) in this year’s defense bill,  which would be built at Austal USA’s facility in Mobile. Such a move by the U.S. Senate would protect […]

A Democratic political group launched a legal campaign Wednesday to create additional majority-minority congressional districts in three Southern states, claiming the current maps discriminate against black voters. Attorneys filed separate federal lawsuits in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, challenging congressional maps lawmakers in each state approved in 2011.

Retail giants have finally stopped selling a company’s baby monitoring stuffed animals after it was discovered that audio and visual recordings were leaked online to potential hackers over a year ago. Walmart, Amazon, and eBay are ending the sale of CloudPets baby monitoring stuffed animals after over two million devices leaked audio and visual recordings […]

Democratic candidate for governor Walt Maddox wants to debate incumbent Gov. Kay Ivey ahead of the November election. Maddox said after winning the Democratic nomination that he wants to debate Ivey and that Alabama voters deserve to hear from the candidates

An inmate has been fatally stabbed at a state prison in Elmore County. Alabama Department of Corrections spokesman Bob Horton said Wednesday that the stabbing happened June 9 at the Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County.

Alabama again is President Donald Trump’s most supportive state, according to a Morning Consult survey released Wednesday. The poll, conducted in May, indicates that 63 percent of Alabama voters approve of Trump’s performance. That edges Wyoming and West Virginia, where the president’s approval rating stood at 62 percent. With 33 percent of Alabama voters disapproving […]

Now that the dust has settled from last week’s gubernatorial primaries, let’s analyze the outcome. Governor Kay Ivey and Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox won very impressive victories. Ms. Ivey beat three well financed opponents without a runoff. She trounced them. She garnered 56 percent of the vote to 25 percent for Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle. Evangelist Scott […]

The ever-progressive Seattle City Council yesterday repealed a head tax that it unanimously passed just a month ago tomorrow. The tax would have cost Seattle’s largest corporations $275 per full-time employee, revenue which would be utilized to combat the city’s homelessness issues. I was in Seattle when the council voted on May 14 to approve […]

The media loves to tell Republicans that President Donald Trump is the leader of their party. Everyone already knows this and 90 percent of Republicans agree with most of what Trump is doing. The argument, apparently, is that everyone hates Trump and Republicans will have to begrudgingly wear the Trump anchor around their neck. It […]

The leader of a group that celebrates the Confederacy is withdrawing a request to erect a monument on a courthouse lawn in north Alabama. Tim Kent, who leads a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, says his request to erect a marker at the Colbert County Courthouse for Confederate Brigadier Gen. James Deshler was […]

http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/Joe_Lewis_and_Myla_Calhoun_Talk_Angels_of_America_s_Fallen.m4a Joe Lewis and Myla Calhoun joined The Ford Faction to talk about Angels of America’s Fallen. They were recently featured on the #55 Nascar that was driven by Jeffrey Earnhardt, and that car was made possible by sponsors like Nine-Line Apparel, Xtreme concepts, IK9, Tripwire Explosives, and Black Rifle Coffee Company.

An Alabama mayor is backing down from an attempt to ban the media and out-of-towners from council meetings. Paint Rock Mayor Brenda Fisk tells WAAY-TV she issued the ban earlier this year without knowing it would violate the law.

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: POP CULTURE EXPRESSION OF ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY   TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take you to an article out of The Jewish Voice. The Museum of Pop Culture is looking to expand, adding a second location in New York City. The Museum of Pop Culture opened […]

The Best Revival of a Musical win for “Once on This Island” at Sunday night’s Tony Awards brought theater’s highest honor to a contingent from Red Mountain Theatre Company. RMTC, its Executive Director Keith Cromwell and patrons Raymond and Kathryn Harbert all are Tony winners as producers of the award-winning musical. “What an amazing feeling […]

Auburn University researchers have discovered the presence of Aedes aegypti — the primary mosquito that transmits Zika virus, yellow fever and other flaviviruses — in Alabama. After a 26-year absence of the mosquito, Sarah Zohdy, Auburn School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Assistant Professor of Disease Ecology, and wildlife sciences undergraduate student Victoria Ashby have […]

When Adam Andrews was born, the attending nurse said, “This boy’s got him some big hands. My people say that means he gon’ be a preacher!” That was sixteen years ago. Adam still has big hands. Huge, in fact. Offer him a shake of your hand sometime and see for yourself. And while he enjoys […]

Police in Alabama are investigating an illegal moonshine operation after dozens of fermentation barrels were found in some woods. Eufaula Police Sgt. Donald Brown told news outlets Tuesday the 36 fermentation barrels found Monday could produce about $7,500 in illegal liquor on each run.

“Shame on you! Shame on you!” chanted protestors after psychology professor Jordan Peterson said he’d refuse to obey a law that would require everyone to call people by the pronoun they prefer — pronouns like “ze” instead of “he” or “she.” It wasn’t just radical college kids protesting. Hundreds of Peterson’s academic colleagues signed a […]

Make plans now to attend the 2017 South Alabama Nonprofit Summit to be held in the Student Center at the University of South Alabama from 9am until 3:30pm on Wednesday, June 27th . The Summit provides an excellent opportunity for professional development for all nonprofit leaders, staff, and board members. The cost for registration is $60 except […]

An accountant has been sentenced to 20 years for stealing more than $750,000 from the government in northern Alabama. Al.com reports that former Franklin County administrator Crista Madden was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to two counts of use of office for personal gain.