Alabama’s efforts to create a $60 million “roll-on, roll-off” facility at the Port of Mobile to serve the state’s growing automobile industry took two big steps forward during the past few days after nearly 70 percent of its costs were funded through enormous coastal and federal grants. The money: — $28.8 million was received from […]

A charter bus carrying high school band members home to Texas from Disney World plunged into an Alabama ravine early Tuesday, and numerous children were being carried by helicopters to emergency rooms. Al.com reported that injuries range from minor to critical, and that at least one critically injured passenger was taken to the University of South […]

An operation sending train loads of partially treated sewage material to an Alabama landfill has been halted. AL.com reported Monday that six wastewater treatment plants from New York City and one from New Jersey had been sending their solid material left over from treatment processes to the Big Sky Environmental, LLC landfill in Adamsville for more than […]

There are a couple of important economic lessons that the American people should learn. I’m going to title one “the seen and unseen” and the other “narrow well-defined large benefits versus widely dispersed small costs.” These lessons are applicable to a wide range of government behavior, but let’s look at just two examples. Last week, […]

An Alabama city says its effort to trap coyotes is humane amid criticism from an animal rights group. Vestavia Hills City Manager Jeff Downes tells AL.com the three-week pilot program captured 13 coyotes by Monday morning and the traps used are not lethal. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says initiatives like the city’s are lethal […]

1. GOP House Intelligence Committee finds there is no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign  — The committee looked at Russian measures against the 2016 U.S., the U.S. response, links between Russians and the Trump and Clinton campaigns, and leaks of classified information. — From the report: “We havea found no evidence of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the […]

Four Deep South states are getting nearly $6 million to preserve sites and highlight stories related to the African-American struggle for equality in the 20th century. The Interior Department says Alabama is getting $2.3 million for nine projects, Mississippi is getting $1.3 million for four projects, and Louisiana and Georgia will each get about $1 […]

A middle school band director in the Dothan City School system faces a charge related to the alleged solicitation of a sex act with a student. The Dothan Eagle reports Phillip Burns, of Dothan, was arrested Friday on one misdemeanor count of school employee soliciting a sex act with a student under the age of 19. Dothan […]

During a speech Monday to the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) declared that Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) being elected to the U.S. Senate last December “was a major loss to our country.” “From our perspective, that was a major loss to our country,” Brooks said to attendees as recorded by […]

Lawyers on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the upcoming execution of an Alabama inmate who they say was mentally ill when he moved to fire his lawyers and drop his appeals. Michael Eggers is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the 2000 choking death of Bennie Francis Murray, his boss at a traveling carnival concession business. […]

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The artist who turned a house where Rosa Parks once lived into an art piece says he’s working to ensure the home is displayed in Rhode Island, even after Brown University pulled its support. Ryan Mendoza says he has a First Amendment right to show the house. Parks lived in the home for a time […]

When Martha Roby launched her first campaign for Congress in 2010, the complete list of women who had represented Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives comprised Elizabeth Andrews and … that’s it. In 93 years since the first American woman took office in Congress, the Heart of Dixie had produced just one female representative […]

Forecasters have issued a freeze warning for north Alabama. The National Weather Service says snow flurries fell in the Tennessee Valley early Monday ahead of a day with chilly temperatures and winds gusting to 40 mph.

A Mississippi company is recalling around 35 tons (31.75 metric tons) of catfish products that might have been tainted by a compound that poses a public health concern. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Friday that various fresh and frozen, raw, intact Siluriformes products were produced Feb. 16 at the Heartland Catfish […]

Donald Trump has truly weaponized the phrases “fake news” and “rigged polls”. His ardent supporters love to imply anything that is not a quasi-love note to him is an outright attack on his presidency. The “fake news” part is kinda silly, but there is some truth to it. The “rigged polls” argument is on far […]

An Alabama attorney faces additional charges of human trafficking just weeks after being arrested on similar charges. Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry says Randy Allan Hames faces new charges of first- and second-degree human trafficking. The 75-year-old Hames was arrested Saturday and released on bail.

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When my wife and I began editing Yellowhammer News four months ago, we promised to always “tell the truth, even when it hurts, and especially when it’s unpopular.” We wrote that because we believe honesty is a virtue to be constantly pursued, not only in journalism, but also in every profession and aspect of life. […]

Police in a central Alabama city have charged two 12-year-olds with making terroristic threats toward schools. Prattville Police Chief Mark Thompson says a 12-year-old boy was arrested Sunday and placed in a juvenile detention center. Price says the child made threats on social media against Prattville High School and Prattville Intermediate School, which the boy […]

The state released preliminary, seasonally adjusted numbers Monday showing the jobless rate declined one-tenth of a percent in January from the December rate of 3.8 percent. The rate represents a record low, but it could be adjusted later. The January number is still well below the January 2017 unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, however. And […]

Unless there is a late surge for Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin, who is running second with 7 percent, Vladimir Putin will be re-elected president of Russia for another six years on March 18. Then we must decide whether to continue on course into a second Cold War, or engage Russia, as every president sought to […]

Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh recently picked up two important endorsements in her bid to become Alabama’s next lieutenant governor, according to a news release from her campign. The Alabama Associated General Contractors and the Alabama Veterinary Medical Association endorsed her candidacy. Cavanaugh, who is currently president of the state’s Public Service Commission, already counts significant endorsements […]

Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery is remembering a Medal of Honor recipient on the 50th anniversary of his death during the Vietnam War. A ceremony will be held today honoring Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger of Hamburg, Pennsylvania. Etchberger died during fighting in Laos on March 11, 1968. He is the only […]