Two bank names are becoming one along the Gulf Coast, as Hancock and Whitney are becoming Hancock Whitney. What’s becoming Hancock Whitney Corp. has a new logo , and CEO John Hairston says workers will start changing the sign today on the company’s Gulfport headquarters. The bank has operated as Whitney in Louisiana and Texas […]

Power bills will go down for many Alabamians starting this summer. The Public Service Commission today announced that Alabama Power Company’s 1.4 million customers will not pay as much for power and fuel beginning in July. According to the PSC, there will be a $337 million reduction over the next two years because of the […]

Country music band Alabama will be hosting a benefit concert in Alabama for Jacksonville tornado relief. A statement by Jacksonville State University says Alabama has pledged to give the proceeds after expenses to the school for tornado relief. A storm hit the campus and city in March. Citing the statement, AL.com reports Alabama has added […]

Authorities say a former Green Bay Packers player has been found shot to death in his home in Alabama. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office says former Packers defensive lineman Carlos Gray was found shortly before 10 p.m. Monday near Birmingham, Alabama. The 25-year-old is a native of Pinson, Alabama.

If U.S. Rep. Martha Roby’s primary challengers censured every Republican who withdrew public support for President Trump following the release of that infamous Access Hollywood tape, they would lose many conservative allies, including U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope). Rich Hobson, who was the director of the Administrative Office of Courts under former Chief Justice Roy […]

Hollywood rolled out the red carpet in Opelika as college students and residents had the chance to see the premiere of Melissa McCarthy’s new film. Local media report that Auburn University was awarded the world premiere of “Life of the Party.” Students showed their school spirit to land the premiere, which took place on Monday […]

Just within the past week or so, some shocking professorial behavior has come to light. In the wake of Barbara Bush’s death, California State University, Fresno professor Randa Jarrar took to Twitter to call the former first lady an “amazing racist.” Jarrar added, “PSA: either you are against these pieces of s— and their genocidal […]

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s new gas-fired power plant in Tennessee is ready to run. TVA said Monday that the Allen Combined Cycle Natural Gas Plant in Memphis has been completed and is ready to operate. It replaces the coal-fired Allen Fossil Plant, which operated for more than 58 years before it was retired on March […]

1. In a move that shocks no one, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s questions for Trump have “leaked“ — Mueller’s questions hit on Trump-Russia, his family, Moscow real estate deals, Jeff Sessions, the firing of James Comey, and more. — President Trump says the release of the questions for him is “disgraceful“; he would be nuts to sit […]

A New York judge says she’ll preside over a June trial over the disputed Broadway production of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” if an Alabama judge allows it. Judge Analisa Torres set a June 4 trial date Monday. She says the trial will occur if an Alabama judge concludes New York is the right […]

Larry Lee, a candidate for the Republican nomination for a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Education, has been described in a memo as a R.I.N.O (Republican-In-Name-Only) by a veteran GOP lawmaker for his longtime association with the Democrat Party and support of policies promoted by Alabama’s controversial teachers union. “Larry Lee does not deserve […]

Authorities say a 15-year-old student has been arrested after a threat resulted in classroom absences and extra police at Dothan High School in southeastern Alabama. The Dothan Eagle reports the youth is charged with making terroristic threats and is being held at the Houston County Diversion Center. The teen’s name hasn’t been released because of […]

Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama filed a new lawsuit Monday against some of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct, claiming they were part of a “political conspiracy” to derail his 2017 campaign. Moore’s attorney, Melissa Isaak, said at a news conference in Gadsden that the accusations raised against Moore shortly before […]

Everything one needs to know about foreign policy can be learned by watching the three-minute negotiation scene between the Rebel outlaw and the Comanche chief in the film “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” Wales offers both life … and death … with utmost sincerity, and because the outlaw is willing to die in battle, the warrior chief […]

I’ve got a gripe and I recognize it’s not very nice considering it’s about people I sit next to … in a chapel … when I’m there to pray. Remember the “close-talker” in the show Seinfeld, who got right up in other people’s faces during conversations? Well, I’m about to go bananas about what I’ll […]

One of Republicans’ favorite stories over the past several years has been the regret that Geir Lundestad, former Nobel Peace Prize committee secretary, expressed about awarding President Obama the prize in 2009. Lundestad, as did many back when the prize was given, said in 2015 that the prize was given to President Obama too early […]

Imagine for a moment that while you and your family sleep, another family breaks into your home and moves into your basement in the dark of night. Once you discover them, you call the authorities to have them removed but are told that because they have established residency, it would be wrong for you to […]

Another week has passed and the American media has completely beclowned themselves. There is a bevy of embarrassments for critics of the media to choose from. MSNBC’s Joy Reid declared she was hacked, said the FBI was looking into her hacking, and then opened her show on Saturday by declaring “I genuinely do not believe […]

Prosecutors say unsolicited packages have been sent to two Alabama girls that were addressed to them in care of their elementary school. The Covington County District Attorney’s Office tells news outlets the Phenix City girls received the packages over the week. The office also said in a Facebook post on Sunday that authorities including the […]

An Alabama couple is credited with reviving a 4-year-old boy who was found unresponsive at the bottom of a pool in Georgia. Dr. Elizabeth Jacobson tells AL.com that she was attending a dermatology conference Saturday in Stone Mountain with her husband, retired Hoover Fire Capt. Keith Jacobson. Dr. Jacobson says there was “a lot of panic,” when […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: PROFESSOR MALIGNS BARBARA BUSH ON TWITTER WITH NO CONSEQUENCES TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, last week, we spent some time remembering Barbara Bush and her passing and the Bush family. When we were doing that program, you said that now was not the time to critique her life. […]

The Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education will add 107 Pre-K classrooms in 33 counties this fall. Gov. Kay Ivey made the announcement in a Monday press release. The new classrooms will expand the state’s voluntary kindergarten program to nearly 19,000 children in more than 1,000 classes in 67 counties.

In this episode of Executive Lion’s Living Life On Purpose, Matt Wilson and Andrew Wells sit down with U.S. Congressman Gary Palmer to discuss how he lives with character and conviction in a place that tends to lack both traits. Gary Palmer was born and raised “dirt poor” in Alabama without indoor plumbing and says […]

An Alabama-based chicken processor will open a plant in northeast Mississippi to process and distribute frozen chicken products. Peco Foods on Monday announced its plan to invest $40 million in West Point, hiring 300 people over the next four years. Tuscaloosa-based Peco bought a 185,000-square-foot (17,000-square-meter) cold storage warehouse in December that it plans to […]