Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey wants to allow some school principals, and other administrators, to access firearms stored on school grounds. Ivey on Wednesday announced she wants to begin implementation of a “School Sentry Program.”

1. President Donald Trump regrets hiring AG Jeff Sessions, reports say he will fire him after Mueller report  — Even though Sessions was the first senator to support Trump, the president cannot stop blaming him for his problems after he recused himself from the Russia problems. — Even though Sessions is clearly the MVP of the […]

Alabama authorities are still searching for an inmate who they say escaped from police custody in Sheffield. Al.com cites a department Facebook post as saying William Anthony Taylor Jr. escaped around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Listen to the full interview here. Tommy Battle joined The Ford Faction today to talk about the race for Alabama’s governor spot. Battle goes into depth about his upbringing in Hoover and his background in the restaurant industry. Mayor Battle elaborates about the growing success in the city of Huntsville and why he thinks he […]

Over 35 years ago during the 1981-82 recession, Billy Joel released “Allentown” about the plight of this Pennsylvania town. The song resonated across the Midwest during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. It also anticipated, I think, an important change in our economy and society. I was in high school in suburban Detroit […]

Alabama officials were ordered to release information about the state’s lethal injection procedure as a federal judge granted news organizations’ request to unseal records in the wake of an aborted execution. U.S. Judge Karon O. Bowdre ruled Wednesday that the public has a “common law right of access to the sealed records relating to Alabama’s […]

Two 18-year-olds in Alabama have been charged with assault in an alleged locker room hazing incident that left a freshman student with a broken arm. News outlets report LaQuiton Williams Jr. and Ellis Damoind Wright were arrested Tuesday in connection with the incident. WKRG-TV reports that 14-year-old Rodney Kim Jr.’s arm was broken at Davidson […]

An Alabama couple has been indicted on federal child pornography charges. A U.S. Department of Justice release says 35-year-old Kenneth Earl Hooks and 28-year-old Sarah Pauline Morris were indicted Tuesday by a grand jury on two counts: producing child pornography and enticing a child to engage in sexual activity to create obscene images.

In my book, “Of Goats and Governors: Six Decades of Alabama Political Stories,” I suggest that based on seniority, tenure, power and prestige that Alabama’s greatest senators have been Lister Hill, John Sparkman, and Richard Shelby. Folks, Richard Shelby has probably forged to the front of that triumvirate with his elevation to the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations […]

State and local elections are like the Terms & Conditions of your new app: you know they’re extremely important, but you don’t really have the time to familiarize yourself with them. While the importance of state and local elections has been demonstrated in columns a million times over – “it’s the state and local policies […]

On June 5, Alabama voters will go to the polls to elect an attorney general — a race that by all accounts is very tight — that includes current Alabama AG Steve Marshall, a former Alabama AG Troy King, former federal prosecutor Alice Martin and former criminal court judge Chess Bedsole. Two of these men […]

A Mexican reporter who frequently covered gang violence in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas was found beaten to death Tuesday, becoming the sixth journalist killed in the country in 2018. The body of Hector Gonzalez Antonio, a correspondent for the Excelsior daily newspaper, was found on a dirt road in Ciudad Victoria, the state capital […]

A student with Down syndrome graduated with an impressive GPA Thursday after excelling in her school’s general education program, despite obstacles presented by her condition. Kari Balazs graduated from Alabama’s Hoover High School May 24 with a 3.5 GPA, showing other Down syndrome students around the world that it’s possible, Alabama News first reported Tuesday. […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: THE CHURCH HAS LOST ITS THICKNESS — WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I’d like to take you to an article written by John Stonestreet out of Breakpoint. The headline is “Are our churches truly leaving a mark on people? Or, another way to think […]

Weeks before President Trump is expected to meet with Kim Jong Un, a State Department report issued Tuesday painted a grim picture of religious freedom abuses at the hands of the Stalinist regime – including “executions, torture, beatings, and arrests” of people of faith. The report said that some of the up to 120,000 North […]

There’s an election primary next week, and many of the candidates vying for the Republican nomination in Alabama want you to know one thing: They like Donald Trump. If you watch the political TV and radio commercials airing in Alabama’s five major media markets, you will learn these GOP candidates go beyond just supporting our […]

FLASH FLOOD WATCH: While Alberto is gone, he left behind a very deep layer of rich tropical moisture, and with a broad upper trough overhead we will maintain a chance of showers and thunderstorms across Alabama today. It won’t rain all day, and the sun will probably peek out at times. But showers and storms […]

If you followed Congressman Mo Brooks’ campaign for U.S. Senate and his campaign for re-election to the U.S. House, there was one theme his opponents used: Mo Brooks was not pro-Trump in 2016. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Super PAC spent millions pushing that message across the state of Alabama and it seemed to be effective […]

Today, all Americans are told, “Go to college!” President Obama said, “College graduation has never been more valuable.” But economist Bryan Caplan says that most people shouldn’t go. “How many thousands of hours did you spend in classes studying subjects that you never thought about again?” he asks. Lots, in my case. At Princeton, I […]

Governor Kay Ivey joined Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama LLC President and CEO Dong Ryeol Choi yesterday to announce that Hyundai is investing $388 million to construct a plant dedicated to manufacturing engine heads and enhance existing operations to support production of new models of Sonata and Elantra sedans. The investment will create 50 new jobs […]

1. President Donald Trump is on the campaign trail again, as if he ever stopped — While Trump was campaigning for Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, she spoke for 45 seconds, and he had no idea who her opponent is. — He continues to hammer national themes including taxes, immigration, the military, McCain, Schumer, and Pelosi. 2. […]

Big money in Alabama judicial races is nothing new, but a week away from primary day, Republican Supreme Court chief justice candidate Tom Parker is in the midst of a campaign that might be unprecedented. Parker, who is challenging incumbent Lyn Stuart in the primary, has reported raising $505,625. Of that, $400,000 has come from […]

Late Tuesday, the Alabama Republican Party announced it had “voted unanimously” to censure Public Service Commision, Place 1 Republican hopeful Jim Bonner amid the various controversies stemming from comments he had made on social media and the airwaves around the state of Alabama. In a statement, Alabama Republican Party chairwoman Terry Lathan acknowledged Bonner’s First […]

http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/5_25_18_Dickie_Drake.mp3 Dickie Drake joined The Ford Faction to talk about his run in the 45th District State Representative in Alabama. Dickie talks about his start up and what got him to where he is today. He mentioned he served over forty years in the Air Force and describes himself as a family man who will […]