On Sunday, Huntsville CBS affiliate WHNT featured Scottsboro’s 97-year-old Velma Sebring in its “The Story with Jerry Hayes” segment. What makes Sebring’s story particularly interesting is that she has been teaching Sunday school for 80 years, 75 of those years at the Center Point Baptist Church. “I started when I was 17,” Sebring said […]

During the 2016 election, mental competency was an issue, but Hillary Clinton was the target. The media scolded conservative commentators as "conspiracy theorists" for asking if the seemingly frail Hillary Clinton was healthy enough to be president.

  Huntsville, Ala. – Registration is now open for HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology’s annual Double Helix Dash 5K and one-mile fun run. In its seventh year, the Double Helix Dash raises funds and awareness for HudsonAlpha’s childhood genetic disorders research. This unique race, which will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 3, winds through the double helix pathway […]

  The national championship matchup has a lot of people speculating about the publicly cordial relationship between Nick Saban and his former Tide coaching colleague Kirby Smart, and a recent story by Aaron Suttles of the Tuscaloosa News adds, let’s just say, some drama to the mix. “The Tuscaloosa News learned that on his way […]

We're at a point now where the journalism that you would have seen as you checked out of the grocery store counter, which was the tabloid journalism of freakish news, has now become mainstream journalism.

The vibrant entrepreneurial tech scene in Birmingham is once again in the national spotlight, as Target plans to buy local grocery delivery service Shipt for $550 million in a blockbuster deal. The retail giant, which announced the acquisition in December, said it will have a major impact on efforts to increase convenience for Target shoppers […]

"Yo' Mama's Platter" at Ed's Seafood Shed captured the attention of the State Tourism Department as one of its 100 Dishes to Eat in Alabama Before You Die.

  As tens of thousands marched in the streets of Tehran on Wednesday in support of the regime, the head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps assured Iranians the “sedition” had been defeated. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari is whistling past the graveyard. The protests that broke out a week ago and spread and became riots are a […]

  Georgia’s governor declared a “Georgia Football Friday” last week in celebration of the University of Georgia’s appearance in tonight’s College Football Playoff National Championship. Gov. Nathan Deal then asked everyone to wear red and black in support of their team, and will close all Atlanta-area government offices early today. Across the entire state of Georgia, it […]

  The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. “Fire and Fury” author faces questions about his credibility, New York Times White House correspondent declares book “notionally true“ — Micheal Wolff’s book about the inner working of the early days of the Trump has been driving the national conversation for one week. — […]

  Last week, The Anniston Star announced it was severing ties with long-time editor H. Brandt Ayers after a number of sexual misconduct allegations against him surfaced. If you haven’t heard by now, Ayers is accused of spanking female employees decades earlier, which has resulted in his resignation from the board of Consolidated Publishing, the […]

A briefing to inform Alabama’s construction industry on the status of prison reform will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. at the Alabama Department of Archives & History, 624 Washington Avenue in Montgomery. “Over the last (legislative) session, many myths circulated,” organizers wrote in a flyer promoting the event. “This is a unique opportunity to hear […]

  As tax season approaches, here are a few things the IRS wants you to remember: — The IRS will begin accepting tax returns on January 29. — The filing deadline is April 17, two days later than the traditional April 15 deadline, because April 15 falls on a Sunday and the following Monday is […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories including Steve Bannon/President Trump’s feud, challengers to Alabama Republicans, and Doug Jones’ snub of Richard Shelby. Dale offers a “Parting Shot” to everyone who thinks Steve Bannon lost the Alabama Senate race and retired General Jim Link […]

How ironic that the people who remain most opposed to Trump today are to some extent responsible for the emergence of such an unorthodox character to fill the void they helped to create.

    Friday in an interview with The Hill, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) encouraged former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, to run for the U.S. Senate seat soon to be vacated by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). Shelby told The Hill’s Molly Hooper that Romney would be a good “fit” in the […]

  Yellowhammer News just heard in the hallway talk about Governor Kay Ivey’s “burn rate,” which is the amount of cash a campaign is spending versus the amount it’s raising. Ivey’s burn rate is very low, according to a consultant working with the Ivey camp. She ended last month with more than $2 million cash-on-hand, […]

  (Sponsored) Joel Blankenship from Xtreme Concepts makes his manly visit on today’s edition of The Ford Faction to talk about Trump criticism in ‘Fire and Fury’ by Micheal Wolff, the new man movie of the week, and Jeff Sessions. Subscribe to the Yellowhammer Radio Presents The Ford Faction podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/Joel_Blankenship_joins_The_Ford_Faction_for_Man_Hour.mp3 […]

    Interaction between humans and black bears saw an uptick last year, and that will likely be the trend for the near future, at least in one corner of the state, according to Dr. Todd Steury of Auburn University. Funded by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resource’s Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) […]

Roy Moore accuser Tina Johnson lost her Gadsden home and all of her possessions in a possible arson and a flood of donations have poured into a GoFundMe account created to help her recover.

    What caused the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016, which evolved into the criminal investigation that is said today to imperil the Trump presidency? As James Comey’s FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller have, for 18 months, failed to prove Donald Trump’s “collusion” with the Kremlin, […]

  One of the women who accused failed Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct lost all of her possessions when her Gadsden home burned down Tuesday, in a blaze that is currently under investigation by the Etowah County Arson Task Force. Tina Johnson, who came forward in mid November with accusations that Moore groped […]

On Saturday, it was not your typical proposal for Josh Taylor and his at the time girlfriend Holly France.  After posting a video of his proposal many other news outlets have obtained his special question and The Ford Faction were able to have him in studio to talk about it.  He mentions the planning ahead and how […]

    The federal government employed 16,000 fewer people in December 2017 than it did in December 2016, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. State governments employed 19,000 fewer people in December 2017 than they did in December 2016. However, overall government employment in the United States increased by a […]