When misadventures occur, the collision between high expectations and cold realities can double our disappointment.

While the country awaits a decision from President Donald Trump’s administration over the extent of U.S. involvement in the Middle East after Israel attacked Iran last week, Alabama’s federal lawmakers continue to back Trump’s insistence that Iran either has or is inches away from building a nuclear weapon.

Campaign finance reports show that since then, Silverstein has donated to at least four democrats, including a 2024 contribution to Kamala Harris.
Attorney General Steve Marshall announced on Friday a Montgomery County jury found James “Jimmy” Bulger guilty on three felony charges: first-degree theft by deception, aggravated theft by deception, and first-degree financial exploitation of the elderly.

The FBI Mobile announced the arrests of 18 subjects in two days in an operation involving the Gulf of America Homeland Security Task Force.

A Bessemer woman is behind bars after Calera Police said she shot into a car over a parking spot at Walmart.

The annual Alabama Blueberry Fest is Saturday, June 21 in downtown Brewton.

Alabama Republican Party (ALGOP) chairman John Wahl will resign as chair if he decides to run for lieutenant governor in 2026.

Amy Dozier Minton announced on Thursday she’d pursue the Republican nomination for Senate District 10 in the 2026 election.

The Federal Reserve is holding interest rates steady despite President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for a 2.5-point reduction.

Fireworks, food, fun and music will be at the USS Alabama Park on Friday, July 4. No ticket required. A charge for parking.

Taras Kosmirak,35, a Ukrainian war refugee, pleaded guilty this week to attempting to transport a woman in Mobile to Brooklyn, New York, for the purposes of employing the woman as a prostitute.

A Collins-Rhodes Elementary teacher charged after a child was hospitalized for alcohol intake is asking the court to amend her bond to allow for a trip to the Bahamas.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to, once again, delay the nationwide ban of TikTok, after dozens of lawmakers sounded the alarm over the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence through the application.
Generation X – born between 1965 and 1980 – has become the pillar generation.

David Reed was sworn in as Marshall County Commission chairman on June 11.

Former State Sen. Shadrack McGill was arrested Wednesday in Jackson County.
Misplaced empathy, in so stalwartly focusing on perceived victims, actually creates more actual victims.

Singer Lightning Lou Christie was popular in Alabama at the Shower of Stars shows of the 1960s. He has died at age 82.

The man accused in the tragic double fatal crash that killed Hannah Parton and Arlene Velasquez in 2021, is going to trial after four years.

The resignation letter from Baldwin County Public Schools chief school financial officer offered a more detailed insight into why John Wilson left his post.

A Franklin County man sued an online sweepstakes casino last week.

A new LGBTQ group is planning to hold a gay pride parade through downtown Huntsville, right past the public parks and a children’s museum, to “celebrate the Stonewall Riots” of New York in 1969.

Attorney General Steve Marshall is taking a victory lap after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Tennessee law, nearly identical to Alabama’s own law banning so-called gender affirming care for minors

On Thursday, Lieutenant Gov. Will Ainsworth announced that he was supporting U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Auburn) bid to be Alabama’s next governor.
The only way to stop the endless machinations of evil people constantly promoting a culture of murdering our babies is to legally acknowledge what we already know to be true: a person is a person, no matter how small.

Former Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson passed away unexpectedly Wednesday of a heart condition.