The Prattville Pride float participated in the city’s Friday Christmas parade without the before-announced drag queen performer after a federal judge compelled the city to allow the float and provide it with additional police protection.
U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker, Jr. ruled on Friday that the City of Prattville must allow a pride float featuring a drag queen to participate in the City’s planned Christmas parade on Friday, also mandating extra police escorts LGBTQ group responsible.
State House Majority Leader Scott Stadthagen (R-Hartselle) has filed a bill for the 2025 legislative session banning public K-12 schools and public libraries from presenting or sponsoring drag performances and state entities from allowing minors to share facilities with members of the opposite sex in certain circumstances during overnight programs.
Prattville Pride, the group at the center of the much-debated drag queen Christmas parade float, has filed an injunction against the city after Prattville Mayor Bill Gillespie pulled the float, citing safety concerns.
Multiple Alabama Department of Corrections employees and contractors have been arrested in recent days in connection with drug trafficking and possession.
The controversial Prattville Pride Christmas Parade float has been pulled from the event, Mayor Bill Gillespie said in a statement, citing safety concerns for Prattville Pride, participants and attendees.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is standing behind President-elect Donald Trump’s pick as Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, despite growing dissent among Senate Republicans over a series of sexual misconduct allegations that have resurfaced.
Prattville Pride, the group planning to host a drag queen on its Christmas parade float, used Giving Tuesday to announce a “holiday fundraiser” to buy chest binders and other “gender-affirming binders and shapewear” for “those in need.”
After meeting with President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) said both Hegseth and Trump are equally committed to ending the ongoing, America-funded conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The City of Prattville has no plans to halt the planned pride float in its annual Christmas parade, despite organizers publicly admitting that the float would feature a drag queen.
As left-leaning and establishment types within the D.C. power structure continue to rail against President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the FBI, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is focusing his attention on what he believes to be significant misconduct on the part of the “Fake Bureau of Investigation” for years.
Despite facing a wave of criticism, appointees for the incoming Donald Trump administration continue to receive hearty support from U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), who continues to meet with the nominees ahead of what promises to be a contentious confirmation process in the Senate.
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) recently joined the chorus of voices lambasting President Joe Biden for granting a years-long, sweeping pardon to his son Hunter after previously pledging not to earlier this year.
Stephen Boyd, a University of Alabama grad who served as the assistant U.S. Attorney General, communications director for former U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, and chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, made his way onto President-elect Donald Trump’s FBI director pick, Kashyap "Kash" Patel’s list of “deep state” members of the executive branch.
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) recently expressed condolences for the passing of Alabama A&M linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr., who died Wednesday due to injuries he sustained in the October Magic City Classic.
Many of Alabama’s federal lawmakers were quick to point out the perceived hypocrisy of President Joe Biden for issuing a sweeping pardon to his son Hunter Sunday night after having previously pledged the opposite.
In another of what promises to be another contentious appointment, President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he had tapped longtime ally Kashyap "Kash" Patel as the next FBI director.
Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge David Carpenter, who approved a plea agreement for the man now charged in the deadly Five Points West shooting that left four dead and 17 injured, was also responsible for the proverbial slap on the wrist in the kidnapping hoax of Carlee Russell that grabbed national headlines in 2023 and led to the creation of a new state law.
The full trial of Allen v. Milligan, the state’s battle over congressional redistricting, is slated to kick off on Feb. 10, 2025, to rule on the constitutionality of lawmakers’ 2023 map that was thrown out by federal judges ahead of the 2024 general election.
Medrick Burnett Jr., a 20-year-old Linebacker for the Alabama A&M Bulldogs, passed away Wednesday after being hospitalized for injuries sustained in October’s Magic City Classic.
Two individuals in Tuscaloosa County have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of human trafficking related to an alleged scheme involving the importation of immigrants from South America and subjecting them to “forced servitude” under fear of deportation.
The FBI announced on Wednesday that it was investigating a series of threats made against nearly a dozen prominent members of President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming cabinet.
State Rep. Juandalynn Givan (D-Birmingham) has pre-filed legislation ahead of the 2025 legislative session requiring the state to license estheticians and makeup artists.
The statewide group Clean Up Alabama is trying to put a stop to a float in the Prattville Christmas Parade touted to be “the gayest and merriest ever.”
A joint, two-day operation conducted by multiple law enforcement agencies in Autauga County led to the arrest of 15 men, charging them with multiple counts related to child trafficking and solicitation.
The Alabama Republican Party (ALGOP) recently announced record numbers of minority votes that went the party’s way in the recent general election.
Some of Alabama’s federal lawmakers are taking a victory lap after Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel Jack Smith moved to dismiss two federal criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump related to election interference and retaining classified information.