Former State Rep. James Fields, a candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor, recently responded to the questionnaire prepared by the Alabama Policy Institute and Yellowhammer News. His answers are below. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND PRINCIPLES Question: What is your political philosophy and, if elected, how would it shape the way you govern? Fields: Ours […]

Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle, a candidate for the Republican Party’s nomination for governor, recently responded to the questionnaire prepared by the Alabama Policy Institute and Yellowhammer News. His answers are below. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND PRINCIPLES Question: What is your political philosophy and, if elected, how would it shape the way you govern? Battle: I consider […]

If the Roy Moore for Senate campaign had a campaign aide who was a convicted rapist, as Sue Bell Cobb’s does(?), it would be on the front page of AL.com for 5 days. If Roy Moore’s campaign manager defended such a hiring, as Sue Bell Cobb’s did, the social media #MeToo outrage would explode and […]

An Alabama city councilman has turned himself in on a charge of public lewdness. WSFA-TV reported Friday that a warrant for Samuel Randolph’s arrest was issued Thursday. Randolph represents Selma’s Ward 5. Selma Police Chief Spencer Collier says the charge stems from an April 1 incident in which narcotics officers on a surveillance detail said […]

I didn’t think I could love the music from the fantastic movie “The Greatest Showman” any more than I already do … until I saw this music video created by “Mr. Moody’s Sociology class” at Mary G. Montgomery High School in Semmes, Ala. “Mr. Moody’s Sociology class explores the relationship of the various cliques and […]

This week the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) marked up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19). Although this bill focuses on our country’s Department of Defense, there are many pieces of the legislation that will have a huge impact back home in East Alabama. The NDAA starts by strengthening our […]

A campaign worker for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sue Bell Cobb was arrested on charges that he failed to comply with registration requirements and restrictions as a registered sex offender. Local media report that Paul Littlejohn was arrested Thursday. Littlejohn is director of Cobb’s Jefferson County field office. He is also a registered sex offender following […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: KARL MARX STATUE BUILT DECADES AFTER BEING TORN DOWN: WHY? TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, let me take you to an article which ran about a week ago in The Washington Post. Nearly two centuries ago, the 17-year-old son of a vineyard owner left his tranquil riverside city […]

Officials say an inmate who died in a fall at a state prison in north Alabama last year killed himself. The News Courier of Athens reports the death of 23-year-old Ben Christopher McClure at Limestone prison has been ruled a suicide. McClure was serving 23 years for murder after pleading guilty in the shooting death […]

A new initiative aims to nudge Alabamians to climb out of their easy chairs and head outdoors to “walk, run, hike, bike, swim, paddle, ride or roll” 100 miles by the end of the year while enjoying the state’s extraordinary scenery. The 100 Alabama Miles Challenge kicks off at 9 a.m. Saturday at Railroad Park […]

http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/5_9_18_President_Austin_LIVE.mp3 “Superhero” Austin Perine joined The Ford Faction to talk about the amazing mount of charity work he’s doing in Birmingham.  Austin talked about all of the really great things he’s doing with his father, TJ, and what it means to him to give back to the community.  Austin has been seen going to areas in need […]

Birmingham’s startup scene got a major boost on Wednesday, as a traveling caravan of national tech and innovation leaders met some of the city’s most dynamic entrepreneurs. The Rise of the Rest bus tour, led by America Online founder Steve Case, made stops at key centers of innovation around the Magic City. The day culminated […]

Friends and musicians are gathering in Mobile to remember the late John “Jab’o” Starks, who played drums with funk singer James Brown. A tribute is planned Friday night at the Cedar Street Social Club, followed by a funeral on Saturday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Mobile.

Police are investigating an early morning killing at an apartment complex in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover. Police Lt. Keith Czeskleba says officers responded to the complex around 3:50 a.m. Friday to investigate a call reporting a shooting. They found a 22-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound.

The impossibly fickle, selective and whimsical rules of cultural appropriation are hard to keep straight. (Oops! I said “straight.” Apologies to whomever. Oops, can I say “whomever?” Zimever? Verselves? Gah.) According to the white people who run the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, eating tacos, drinking tequila and wearing sombreros on Cinco de Mayo “are […]

Jurors will begin hearing arguments Friday against an Alabama physician accused of prescribing drugs that killed the guitarist for rock band 3 Doors Down in 2016. Dr. Richard Snellgrove is accused of unlawful distribution of drugs and health care fraud in a case tied to the overdose death of Matthew Roberts. An indictment alleges Snellgrove […]

1. Trump’s poll numbers are improving and he has a pretty good week as his numbers trend in the right direction — A week of accomplishments, with Americans seeing actual progress, grew throughout the week, including the scuttling of the Iran Deal, 3 prisoners released from North Korean labor camp, a date for the U.S.-North Korean […]

The Broadway production of “To Kill a Mockingbird” will open in December after a lawsuit that threatened to shut down the production was settled Thursday. The deal was announced in a joint statement from producer Scott Rudin’s production company, Rudinplay, and the estate of the late author, Harper Lee. Lawyers declined to elaborate. It came […]

Rutgers University has welcomed a new program to teach the students and staff at the university about illegal immigrants in America and one of the administrators at Rutgers wants to make the program mandatory. The workshop, titled the “DREAM Zone” program, is a three-hour class that originated at New York University and became known to […]

A veteran administrator in Alabama’s community college system has been named interim president at Calhoun Community College. The Decatur Daily reports Joe Burke, who served as vice president and dean of instruction at Northeast Alabama Community College in Rainsville for 11 years, will begin his stint at Calhoun on Monday. He replaces Jim Klauber, who […]

Okay, Mr. or Ms. Procrastinator, this is for you. Probably barely noticed it in your busy schedule, but in a few days it will be Mother’s Day and you’ll be in panic mode because as usual you haven’t bought her a gift yet. You can admit it. So instead of being that person shopping at […]

The federal Tennessee Valley Authority will charge its utilities a fixed fee that will likely be passed on to customers, no matter how much energy they use. The decision by the TVA’s board on Thursday is upsetting advocates for ratepayers and green energy, who say it will penalize people who turn off their lights or […]

A trio of Alabama congressmen who helped advance the fiscal year 2019 defense spending bill Thursday highlighted local priorities, from the Redstone Arsenal in the north to shipbuilding on the Gulf Coast. The committee voted 60-1 for the bill — formally called the National Defense Authorization Act — with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) providing the […]

A state board says a parole hearing will occur for a woman originally sentenced to die for the 1982 rape and slaying of a 13-year-old Georgia girl in Alabama. The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles issued a statement Thursday saying that Judith Ann Neelley has not completed a process to waive her parole hearing. […]