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Recent polling, nearly a week before the June 16 Republican primary runoff election, shows a tight lead for former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson in his run for U.S. Senate, while Secretary of State Wes Allen has a slight advantage in his tight race for lieutenant governor.

The roughly $70 billion package will fund the two agencies through the end of President Donald Trump’s term. The Republican-led effort passed 214-212.

A three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals approved a second hearing this week for an Alabama man slated to be executed on Thursday, who is arguing that death by firing squad would be his preferred method.

During a Tuesday House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center, interim CEO Bryan Fair doubled down on his organization's labeling of TurningPoint USA and its deceased founder, Charlie Kirk, as having an "authoritarian vision for the country that threatens the foundation of our democracy." 

During a Tuesday appearance on Rightside Broadcasting Network, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) criticized an apparent unwillingness of certain immigrant and religious groups to assimilate into American culture.

The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office is preparing for round two of the Camp Explorer program this summer.

On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) disputed accusations that he is misleading voters in next week's Republican Senate runoff election by referring to himself as a "military veteran" in campaign advertisements and at political events.

Recent news regarding Jackson Hospital’s potential closure has understandably raised concerns among patients, families, employers and health care providers across the River Region.

Attorney General Steve Marshall recently sent multiple cease and desist letters to six companies his office claims are illegally advertising, facilitating and enabling the sale and procurement of abortion-inducing medication.  

Every weekday morning before the sun rises, Alex and Crystal Koehn are up and working. The Mennonite couple serves the Livingston area homemade baked goods and hot, from-scratch meals at Touch of Home Bakery.

But don’t you know, that from the wounds we bear for others, everlasting flowers bloom? That to suffer out of obedience in love is greater than any promise of sin?

A Massachusetts-based liberal political action committee facing multiple investigations for potential fraud and illicit financial activity is sparing no expense in its effort to flip a traditionally conservative congressional seat located in North Alabama.

Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell and chief counsel to the attorney general, Katherine Robertson, engaged in a contentious back-and-forth over "dark money" during Monday night's runoff debate as the pair vie for the soon-to-be-vacant AG position.

Accuracy in Media has released video footage of Shemaiah Kenon, assistant director of the Intercultural Center at the University of Alabama, bragging that she has found "holes" in the state's legislation banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and other divisive concepts at the state's colleges and universities. 

Leading Republican candidates for the leading offices up for grabs in the upcoming June 16 Republican runoff election met in the capital city to debate policy issues at a forum hosted by 1819 News at the downtown Montgomery Performing Arts Center.

Alabama punched its first ticket to the College World Series since 1999, defeating St. John's 7-2 in Game 2 of the Tuscaloosa Super Regional.

Questions about U.S. Rep. Barry Moore's military tenure and rank have led to accusations that he misrepresented his service — accusations Moore’s campaign adamantly denies.

The Ridgways may have exploited their dead child for clicks, yet I believe this situation affords us an opportunity to truly see sin and evil for what it is. Let’s make child sacrifice evil again.

Prichard Mayor Carletta Davis is calling for more oversight and law enforcement action amid financial turmoil. However, she blasted the media during a press conference on Monday, blaming them for negative coverage.

The multinational technology corporation, Google, is planning significant "infrastructure and community investments" across Alabama.

State Sen. Robert Stewart (D-Selma) joined anti-death penalty advocates who met in Montgomery today to plead with Gov. Kay Ivey to offer amnesty to  Jeffrey James Lee, 49, who is scheduled for execution on Thursday for the 1998 murder of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson in an attempted robbery.

State Rep. Rhett Marques (R-Enterprise) recently picked up an endorsement from Manufacture Alabama, the trade association that advocates for the state’s manufacturing industry, as the state approaches a special election.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Auburn) campaign argues that the publishing of sensitive information revealed amid a residency challenge is illegal.

The schoolmarm from Queens, armed with her X account and the solemn conviction that Providence has selected her to rescue the benighted, arrived in Montgomery to find the patient has not only recovered but is running a temperature considerably healthier than her own. The poor, ignorant Alabamian, whom she had sought to rescue, is meanwhile gainfully employed, paying modest rent, and disinclined to emigrate, which is more than can be said for the constituents she leaves behind on the sidewalks of the Bronx.

A campaign advertisement attacking Alabama House District 95 challenger Joe Freeman accuses him of assault and walking out on his children. But State Rep. Frances Holk-Jones (R-Foley), who Freeman is running to replace, said she has nothing to do with it.

Lawmakers across the state have extended sympathy to the family of James "Weston" Higginbotham, the Hoover native and Auburn student, who was found dead on Saturday following a 7-day search in Japan.

On Mid-Day Mobile 106.5 FM Mobile, Speaker Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) openly questions the legal strategy and skills of the former attorney for the state Edmund “Eddie” LaCour.