Jimmy Buffett had one hit before "Margaritaville." His first big national hit. His breakthrough or breakout.
Alabama's sixth district U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) announced Tuesday morning that he has withdrawn from the race for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) put out a challenge to all candidates running for Speaker, asking his fellow contenders to commit to five principles.
Former band members from Sylacauga High School will gather on October 25 to recognize their band directors. For 75 years, one family supplied all the band directors – Fess Simpkins, Buddy Simpkins and David Simpkins.
Palmer faces eight other Republican congress members who qualified to run for speaker before the October 22 deadline.
Sixth district U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) was one of nine Republican congressmen who qualified by the noon ET deadline of October 22 to run for U.S. Speaker of the House.
Alabama's first district U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl (R-Mobile) says House Republicans have a new plan to elect a new Speaker of the House.
The active Greek community of South Alabama shows off this week.
The band features an eclectic mix of big band music, jazz vocal arrangements, patriotic songs, and instrumentals.
A rite of passage is the changing of location for the annual “Meeting of the Minds,” the national gathering of members of Parrot Head clubs. For 28 years, it has met in New Orleans and then Key West. Not anymore. It will now meet on Alabama’s Gulf Coast in Gulf Shores.
The Mobile Big Band is Alabama’s version of New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Band, only the music genres are different. In New Orleans, you hear Bourbon Street’s Dixieland jazz. In Mobile, you hear swing, big band, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller.
The newest Jimmy Buffett song (so far) has now been released posthumously. “University of Bourbon Street” was co-written by Buffett and Mobile native Will Kimbrough.
Imam operates a retail shop named “The Alabama Shop” at David Street No. 60 between the Christian Quarter and the Armenian Quarter in old Jerusalem. He was a student at the University of Alabama from 1985 to 1989. His brother in the United States is also a ‘Bama graduate.
It will be an unusually early Saturday for paraders and parade watchers at Alabama’s homecoming.
Pete Riehm of Mobile has been named the new head of the citizen activist group, the Common Sense Campaign.
This weekend’s homecoming at the University of Alabama will draw thousands of UA graduates home to see the many changes on campus, the pep rally, the crowning of the homecoming queen, the homecoming parade and the grand finale, the football game against Arkansas.
State Rep. Shane Stringer (R-Citronelle) says he will push legislation for public accountability in the state health department.
The University of Alabama kicks off its homecoming game Saturday against Arkansas at 11 a.m. Just a few minutes later, at 11:13 a.m. CT, an annular eclipse of the sun enters the continental United States on the Oregon coast.
Former State Sen. Roger Bedford died at his home in Tuscaloosa Wednesday following a battle with cancer.
It’s a long way from being an altar boy in Sylacauga to being Bishop of the U.S. Military Archdiocese, but that is the life journey made by Dickie Spencer.
A Zoom meeting Monday of 247 U.S. activists developing a strategy to support Israel in the face of terrorist attacks featured Alabama’s U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) and Auburn head basketball coach Bruce Pearl.
Two citizen activists from Lee County have prepared a bill to require each Alabama county to conduct a post-election audit on 10% of the voting precincts. Those sample precincts would be selected at random.
For the first time, B.C. Rain football has a permanent home.
It is the annual Harvest Moon, meaning the full moon closest to the advent of fall.
People call him “Dr. Lou,” partly because his last name is difficult to say and spell. Dr. Lou Campomenosi, 78, long-time head of the Common Sense Campaign, has announced his resignation from the group.
Since 1937, for 86 years, Lloyd’s Restaurant, off Highway 280 east of Birmingham, has been the go-to place for barbecue, meat and three, fried chicken and heavenly onion rings. Lloyd’s has been a Southern Fried Restaurant.
There was an early militia – 1950s through 1970s – in Foley in southern Baldwin County. And it defied the mainstream depiction of a militia.