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Former State Sen. George Callahan could tell political stories. Some of those went to the grave as he died July 19 in Theodore.

Last week, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville introduced Mountain Brook urologist Dr. Brian Christine to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) ahead of their vote on his pending nomination. Trump nominated Christine to be assistant secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

District One Board member and former chairman Ron Snider accused current APLS chairman John Wahl and District Three board member Amy Minton of using their positions on the board to boost their political ambitions “to the detriment” of state libraries.

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) gave some context to the heated exchange between her and U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on the Senate floor on Thursday.

Supporters of the university and board members were told emphatically that the school does not have an active diversity, equity and inclusion program.

A Wedowee woman is celebrating a world champion horse show title. The first, she hopes, of many.

It's the largest fishing tournament in the world, and U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) was right in the middle of it on Saturday — fishing, not campaigning.

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division announced on Sunday that it had arrested three men who now face nearly 50 total charges related to allegedly kidnapping, trafficking and sexually abusing children ranging from three to 16 in an underground bunker in Bibb County.

During this week's broadcast of Alabama Public Television's "Capitol Journal," host Todd Stacy interviewed APTV executive director Wayne Reid and network director of external affairs Jack Williams on the heels of a $9 billion rescission package passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump last week.

When a youth gets into a disagreement, there are many choices for how to handle it. A new film dramatizes choices that do not involve gun violence.

Friday on Fox News Channel's "The Ingraham Angle," U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) discussed the funding cuts to public broadcasting enacted after President Donald Trump signed the rescissions package into law.

Stranger things have happened and in the new "Stranger Things" trailer for season 5, Netflix shows us what's to come for the sci-fi horror series finale, with a little touch of Sweet Home Alabama.

During this week's "1819 News: The Podcast," Burgess discussed his father, the new book and true masculinity, which he lamented was dwindling in the church and society as a whole. He shared how he has turned his father's lessons into Biblical lessons.

The sound and feel of Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefers come to Andalusia August 2. Tribute band ULA plays at the Kiwanis Center.

As Fairhope city council place one incumbent Jack Burrell reaches the end of his 13th year on the council, he is hoping constituents will keep him in office for a fourth term.

As the lengthy and sometimes hostile debate in the previous weeks surrounding President Donald Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill seems to be a distant memory, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is now turning his attention to Trump’s rescission package.

Some Alabama farmers are celebrating President Donald Trump’s decision to end the U.S.-Mexico Tomato Suspension Agreement and slap a 17% tariff on most fresh Mexican tomatoes.

Three Mexican nationals—Luis Miguel Campos-Reyes, Isaac Fernandez-Lopez, and Marco Antonio Guzman—were arrested and face federal charges this week after local, state, and federal law enforcement raided multiple Mexican restaurants across Alabama on Tuesday.  

Friday, during an appearance on Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Joesphine) said there was a possible legislative remedy for stopping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from dumping spoil from a dredging project underway directly into Mobile Bay.

Seven illegal aliens from China, Mexico, and Guatemala employed at a Chinese buffet in Albertville were detained by local and federal law enforcement on Friday.

Former State Representative, city judge and attorney Michael Onderdonk died June 26 in Chatom.

Crescent Theater, the quaint movie theater in downtown Mobile, has closed again. Chains are on the doors.

Alabama Department of Workforce Secretary Greg Reed announced on Friday that Alabama’s labor force participation rate for June held steady at 58%. 

An attorney representing an alleged drug “kingpin” apologized to a federal judge in Mobile on Wednesday after submitting a brief with false case citations generated by an artificial intelligence program.

U.S. Sens. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) and Chris Murphy (Conn.) got involved in a heated argument on the Senate floor on Thursday.

The Alabama Public Library Service approved on Thursday to begin the process of aligning the state’s administrative code with President Donald Trump’s executive order, mandating that no federal monies be given to entities that promote gender ideology.

The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles adopted new amended parole guidelines at a meeting on Thursday.