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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.

The average price of gasoline per gallon is beginning to trend down after going over $4 per gallon last month.

The months-long back-and-forth between former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell and Attorney General Steve Marshall continued this week after Mitchell slammed Marshal in an attack against his runoff opponent, Marshall's chief counsel, Katherine Robertson.

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.

The Auburn Board of Trustees voted Friday to create a Presidential Academic Advisory Council to replace the current Faculty Senate and put in place a "Curriculum, Courses, Syllabi, and Core Educational Requirements Policy."

Miss Alabama 2026 is Ruby Tilghman. Tilghman, who was Miss Birmingham, was crowned Saturday night.

Employees at Legacy Cabinets in Eastaboga are voicing concerns after receiving a memo announcing the manufacturer's closure.

With double red flags signaling danger in the waters off Alabama's coast, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), Gulf Shores Beach Rescue and Orange Beach Rescue are teaming up to keep beachgoers safe.

If Jackson Hospital closes, patients will go to Baptist where they will encounter the chaos of an overburdened hospital and where BCBS will pay the higher rates anyway. So why not pay those rates to Jackson and prevent what will be a local and regional healthcare calamity?

A perfect start to the Tuscaloosa Super Regional as the No. 7 seed Alabama baseball team took the first game of the series against St. John’s 8-0.

Congressional districts should be drawn around geography, population and community – not race – where every party must show up and earn every vote.

Homosexuality, recently considered an aberrant and degenerate lifestyle, now has its own month of celebration, featuring festivals, parades and corporate sponsorships of the LGBTQ+ agenda. 

God takes us into situations we cannot handle on our own so we learn to trust Him alone. And not just for the moment, but for all that lies ahead.

During a Friday episode of Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Josephine) revealed a possible timeline for a transition to a 7-0 Republican dominated congressional map in Alabama.

After weeks of rainfall and some isolated flooding events across the state, some parts of Alabama are no longer experiencing drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama is offering an elevated $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in a Thursday shooting.

No. 4 Auburn baseball dropped its second straight Super Regional series after dropping Game 2 against Ole Miss on Saturday at Plainsman Park, 5-3.

The Cinderella run continues for the Troy Trojans baseball squad.

It’s weird. Being back in America again. For one thing, they don’t call it “America” over in Europe. It’s bad form. They call it “the U.S.”

The Alabama Board of Medical Examiners recently put out a notice addressing an “increased interest in peptides," warning Alabama physicians about the restrictions surrounding substances not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

The Orange Beach Shooting Team is in Childersburg this weekend for the 2026 Alabama Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) championship.

Following a 52-47 vote to pass a reconciliation package, providing approximately $70 billion in funding through 2029 for two immigration enforcement agencies, Senate Republicans are criticizing their Democratic counterparts for delaying the much-needed funding.

Nancy and Keith Higginbotham, the parents of missing Hoover native James "Weston" Higginbotham, have released a new statement announcing that he was found dead.

State Rep. Juandalynn Givan needs to stop crying about how black and brown voters are being suppressed when she wants to suppress the votes which upended her quest for power.

On Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) campus to launch its new training center.