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Bentley pleads Alabama for forgiveness, says scandal does not affect his work

Jordan LaPorta - April 4, 2016

HARVEST, Ala. -- After his first attempt at reconciliation with Alabama voters fell flat, Gov. Robert Bentley (R-Ala.) on Monday delivered another apology for...

‘Build the Wall!’ — Pro-Trump chalk drawings show up around iconic Saban statue

Jordan LaPorta - April 4, 2016

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Nick Saban has not weighed in on the 2016 presidential race, but Donald Trump supporters on campus at the University of...

Here’s what happened last time the Alabama legislature sought impeachment, 100 years ago

Cliff Sims - April 4, 2016

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- After John Purifoy served in the Jeff Davis Artillery of the Confederate Army, he went on to become one of the...

Byrne: ISIS spreads terror while Obama refuses to put forth a clear strategy to defeat them

U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne - April 3, 2016

For over a year now, I have been pointing out that the Obama Administration lacks a clear strategy to defeat the Islamic State of...

Check out the rap sheet on the two Alabama crack dealers Obama just let out of prison

Jordan LaPorta - April 1, 2016

This is not an April Fool's joke. As part of his effort to reform jail sentences for “non-violent” offenders, President Obama on Wednesday commuted the...

Byrne says Obama administration’s newly released ISIS strategy is ‘insulting’

Mitchell Kilpatrick - April 1, 2016

https://youtu.be/EBK9GS23ZTw (Video above: Congressman Bradley Byrne demands Secretary of Defense Ash Carter release strategy to defeat ISIS) WASHINGTON – Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL1), a member of...

Economic developers frustrated as Bentley scandal chases away companies, jobs

Cliff Sims - March 31, 2016

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Governor Robert Bentley has become a serious impediment to Alabama's job creation efforts, according to multiple economic development professionals Yellowhammer spoke...

Shelby reveals Obama let two ‘convicted gun-toting drug dealers’ from Alabama out of prison

Cliff Sims - March 31, 2016

WASHINGTON -- Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on Thursday blasted President Barack Obama for commuting the sentences of criminals convicted on gun charges, while simultaneously...

Bentley personally bought ‘burner’ phones sometimes used to avoid surveillance

Cliff Sims - March 31, 2016

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Governor Robert Bentley personally bought multiple disposable cell phones -- often referred to as "burners" -- at a Tuscaloosa Best Buy...

Bentley expresses frustration with media, says his actions were ‘not all that egregious’

Cliff Sims - March 30, 2016

RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. — In his first one-on-one interview since becoming embroiled in scandal last week, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley told the New York Times...

Bentley’s senior political advisor and mistress Rebekah Mason resigns

Cliff Sims - March 30, 2016

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Governor Robert Bentley's senior advisor and mistress has resigned. In a statement released by the Bentley administration, Mason said she plans to...

IMPEACHMENT: Alabama lawmakers angling to remove disgraced governor from office

Cliff Sims - March 30, 2016

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama lawmakers are making preparations to bring forth articles of impeachment against Governor Robert Bentley on the grounds that he is...

STUDY: Alabama ranked among states most dependent on the federal government

Mitchell Kilpatrick - March 30, 2016

The U.S. government is basically keeping the state of Alabama afloat, according to a new study researching which states are the most reliant on...

Alabama takes case against Obama’s ‘executive amnesty’ to the US Supreme Court

Jordan LaPorta - March 30, 2016

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Attorney General Luther Strange announced Alabama has joined a coalition of 26 states in filing a merits brief before the...

Bentley staffer lashes out, says sources exposing secrets are ‘the public’s worst enemy’

Cliff Sims - March 29, 2016

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A staffer in Governor Robert Bentley's press office on Tuesday took to social media to express his frustration with media sources...

UNCOVERED: Bentley and Mason co-own secret safe deposit box together

Cliff Sims - March 29, 2016

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Governor Robert Bentley and his senior advisor and mistress Rebekah Mason share a secret safe deposit box at a Montgomery...

Alabama lawmakers weigh what to do with the booming fantasy sports industry

Cliff Sims - March 29, 2016

When the Alabama legislature returns from spring break next week, one of the first bills that will receive consideration would create a structure by...

Obama has a message for UAH students trying to block Sessions’ speech: ‘That’s not how we learn’

Mitchell Kilpatrick - March 29, 2016

A group of liberal students at the University of Alabama-Huntsville is not happy with the university's choice for commencement speaker this spring, but their...

Speaker Paul Ryan coming to Alabama, raising money to hold GOP House majority

Cliff Sims - March 29, 2016

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan will be in Alabama Wednesday raising money for the effort to hold the GOP's majority in...

DEVELOPING: State, Feds launch criminal investigations into Bentley-Mason relationship

Cliff Sims - March 28, 2016

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Yellowhammer sources have confirmed that both the Alabama Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney's office have launched criminal investigations into possible...

Governor Bentley isn’t going anywhere and here’s why

Jordan LaPorta - March 28, 2016

The Rebekah Mason scandal has rocked the state of Alabama and Governor Robert Bentley (R-Al) has gone from limping to crawling just two years...

Alabama attorney tapped to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

Jordan LaPorta - March 28, 2016

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Last week, the Birmingham law firm Maynard Cooper & Gale announced that one of their attorneys would be clerking for U.S....

EXCLUSIVE: The complete Bentley-Mason affair audio recordings and transcripts

Cliff Sims - March 27, 2016

Then-First Lady Dianne Bentley, suspicious that her husband, Governor Robert Bentley, was having an affair with his senior advisor, Rebekah Mason, on multiple occasions...

These four audio clips suggest Bentley is lying when he denies having a ‘physical affair’

Cliff Sims - March 27, 2016

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley insists he did not have a physical relationship with his senior advisor Rebekah Mason, but his own words -- captured...

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