Alabama Congressman Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) delivered a speech on the House floor Tuesday to remember the legacy of the late Reverend Billy Graham. At the time, Graham’s body was lying in state in the rotunda of the United States Capitol, just a short walk from where Palmer delivered his remarks. Watch the video here: […]

    (Opinion) There has been non-stop talk of Trump/Russian collusion. It has brought about relentless media coverage, but it has not brought about any evidence for the public to see that would lead us to believe there was actual collusion. The competing memos about potential FISA abuse during the campaign and transition have only further […]

    The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division is hosting an Alabama Red Snapper Conference Thursday, March 22, 2018. It will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Mobile-Downtown/Historic District Holiday Inn at 301 Government St., Mobile, AL 36602. The purpose of the conference is to highlight recent management and research of red snapper ecology […]

(Opinion) President Donald Trump has unfairly and rudely attacked … yet again … the most consistent, most honorable, and most trustworthy conservative in the country – Alabama’s Jeff Sessions. Here’s what just happened: The president didn’t like that our attorney general directed the Justice Department’s inspector general to review how the agency seeks surveillance orders […]

  On Wednesday, Gardendale Mayor Stan Hogeland and Gardendale Board of Education President Michael Hogue announced the city would not appeal a federal court’s ruling disallowing the city to break from the Jefferson County School System and form its own system. Last month, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals deemed the […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: EPIDEMIC OF ADOLESCENT DEPRESSION DRAWS UPDATED GUIDELINES TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, NPR recently ran a story with the headline “Only about 50 percent of adolescents with depression get diagnosed before reaching adulthood.” The story goes on to say as many as 2 […]

    The recent tragedy at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High has sadly raised this question again. The failure to prevent the loss of young lives reflects both an unpleasant reality and some problems of politics. Preventing school shootings is very hard in a nation with millions of guns. Once someone decides to do evil, […]

  The president reportedly refers to Attorney General Jeff Sessions as “Mr. Magoo,” according to a Wednesday report. President Donald Trump has given Sessions his own nickname, “Mr. Magoo,” after a short, white cartoon character best known for his nearsightedness, The Washington Post reported after speaking with people close to the president. The president has also […]

    President Trump is not a particularly popular president. His job approval rating has not crossed 50 percent for a single day of his presidency. He’s currently riding as high as he ever has in the RealClearPolitics poll average — and that’s 41 percent. Statistics guru Nate Silver estimates that “the approval rating at […]

  Alabama Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) took to the House floor earlier this week to praise the life of the late Reverend Billy Graham, who he had the pleasure of meeting once during a presidential inauguration. “While no one could ever come close to having an impact on the world in the way that Christ […]

The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. President Trump looks to make due process secondary and ban assault rifles, maybe — Trump’s moves on guns now include Democrat-pleasing measures such as suspensions of due process, insults to his allies like claiming Republicans were owned by the NRA, and he killed any talk of concealed […]

  One day after Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he will ask the Justice Department inspector general to investigate alleged FISA surveillance abuse, Donald Trump erupted with a Wednesday morning tweet: “Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already […]

  Jacksonville State basketball player Norbertas Giga left Lithuania for the United States in 2013 to play basketball and has not seen his family since. That changed this week when Giga went to watch film with coaches to prepare for the upcoming Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. JSU coaches sat Giga down, and in walked his mother. […]

    Alabama history is filled with dynamic women such as Julia S. Tutwiler, Condoleeza Rice, Helen Keller, Rosa Parks and Harper Lee, whose leadership styles may differ, but whose courage and palpable Alabama spirit represent so much of what we aspire to be. Throughout March, Yellowhammer News will spotlight 20 Alabama women who embody […]

  Monday was senior night for the Purdue Boilermakers and former Hokes Bluff High School star Isaac Haas broke down. The seven-footer addressed the crowd, thanking Boilermaker fans for supporting his younger sister Erin during her battle with epilepsy. Per SB Nation, Purdue raised money for epilepsy research earlier this season. “I just want to thank everybody in […]

(Opinion) A bill sponsored by Rep. Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) that would raise the state’s minimum age for all tobacco purchases from 19 to 21 years old has gained the support of five Alabama physician groups, and it has a good chance of passing. “Smoking remains one of the most preventable causes of heart disease by making the […]

  Allowing teachers to conceal carry is something that folks really find troubling. They seem to believe that this will make their children less safe and put them in peril. Maybe they don’t trust teachers, maybe they think they are irresponsible, or maybe they just think they would be ineffective as defenders of children. Madison […]

  New research from the Parents Television Council (PTC) has found that television violence, and gun violence in particular – that is rated appropriate for children – has increased on primetime broadcast television shows in the five years since the shooting in Newtown, CT. PTC compared TV-PG and TV-14 programs from one month after the 2017 mass […]

  (Opinion) Originally reported by Celine Ryan and Brandon Jones of Campus Reform, a class is being offered at San Diego State University next month devoted entirely to the subject of getting Donald Trump out of the White House. The class, titled “Trump: Impeachment, Removal, or Conviction?”, will focus on impeachment and removal under the […]

    For six days a year, the Talladega Superspeedway, off I-20 in northern Talladega County, is one of Alabama’s biggest tourist attractions. The numbers bear it out. Nearly 400,000 people, 73 percent of whom were from out of state, attended a race at Talladega in 2017. “You have to figure with our crowds, 73 […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: HUNGARY PRIME MINISTER TOUTS CHRISTIANITY AS LAST HOPE FOR EU TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, there are three different stories I’d like to cover with you today. The first deals with Victor Orban. Now, a lot of our listeners probably don’t recognize that […]

Graphic depicting candidates and their cash on hand as of February 2018, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Alabama Secretary of State’s office. (Sign-up for our daily newsletter here and never miss another article from Yellowhammer News.)

    Alabama’s more than 8,700 physicians support more than 100,000 jobs and generate nearly $17 billion in economic activity, according to a new report released by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama and the American Medical Association. The report found that each individual physician: — Creates 11.7 jobs in the state. — […]

The national association for Republican state attorneys general recently endorsed Steve Marshall is his campaign to remain Alabama’s top law enforcement officer. Marshall, a former district attorney in north Alabama, was appointed attorney general last year when Luther Strange left for the U.S. Senate. He is now running in the Republican Primary against former U.S. […]