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Alabama Ebola scare ends up being false alarm after patient quarantined
An individual who recently traveled to Africa was quarantined at St. Vincent's St. Clair Hospital in Pell City, Ala., with symptoms of Ebola, but...
Alabama speech reveals what a Jeb Bush presidential candidacy would sound like
A who's who of Alabama business and political power players converged at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Birmingham Tuesday night for the annual Business...
ALGOP Chairman: Griffith a ‘one trick pony’ beholden to ‘AEA union bosses’
Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead slammed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Parker Griffith on Wednesday for being "a one trick pony" who would "would only...
Everything you need to know about Alabama’s Ebola response preparedness
There are no confirmed cases of Ebola in Alabama but we must be prepared should a case be identified. pic.twitter.com/BwcTl3omdB— Gov. Robert Bentley (@GovernorBentley)...
(Chart) For the first time in decades, Alabama’s government is actually shrinking
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley was elected in the great Tea Party wave of 2010, an election cycle when the calls for reductions to the...
Alabama native Condi Rice honored for living West Point motto of ‘Duty, Honor, Country’
Birmingham, Ala., native and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was honored at West Point on Monday with the U.S. Military Academy's Thayer...
Study: New EPA regulations could raise Alabama electricity rates 20 percent
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Gov. Robert Bentley on Tuesday stood alongside leaders from the 60 Plus Association (60+) -- commonly referred to as the conservative...
Americans want Alabama in the U.S., but aren’t so sure about California and others
According to a new survey, 2 percent of Americans who said they'd be willing to vote a state out of the Union would vote...
Scandal-ridden Central Alabama VA director out, acting director named
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Monday, Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Sloan Gibson proposed that James Talton, the embattled Director of the Central Alabama...
AEA doubles down, donates another $300k in teachers’ dues to Griffith
A couple of weeks after donating $300,000 to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Parker Griffith, the Alabama Education Association (AEA) is doubling down with another $300,000...
Byrne: Alabama-built LCS, strong Navy integral to maintaining peace through strength
President Theodore Roosevelt once said, "a good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace." I firmly agree...
Ingraham: Sessions will show the country ‘what real conservatism is’
(Above: Video of Laura Ingraham, Sen. Jeff Sessions and Dave Brat speaking in Virginia)
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and nationally syndicated conservative talk radio...
Ala. Congressional candidate promotes debate he didn’t even tell his opponent was taking place
Mark Lester, Democratic candidate for Congress in Alabama's 6th Congressional District, sent out a press release Friday promoting a debate between him and his...
Alabama pays down $70 million in debt
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From the office of Gov. Robert Bentley:
MONTGOMERY – Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday announced the state’s ability to repay $70 million to the Education...
Everything you need to know about voting in Alabama
On November 4, just a little over a month from now, Alabamians will file into polling places and cast their vote for the midterm...
Parker Griffith: ‘America’s greatest enemy is America… nothing to fear from radical Islam’
A brutally effective campaign ad by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) that aired in 2008 has resurfaced this morning and could have an...
AEA spending more to oust ALGOP than national teachers’ union spent to elect Obama
The Alabama Education Association (AEA) has become the de facto Alabama Democratic Party in recent years as the traditional party apparatus has all but...
(Video) We asked Alabamians about politics & sports… You probably know how it went
Yellowhammer News correspondent Cort Gatliff went to Railroad Park in Birmingham to test Alabamians' knowledge on politics and sports in a brand new feature...
Alabamian in the middle of one of DC’s hottest behind-the-scenes power struggles
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is one of the most recognizable faces in American politics. But even before being tapped to be Mitt Romney's vice...
Sessions: Senators should block any AG nominee who doesn’t oppose Obama’s amnesty plan
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) told Breitbart News late last week that the United States senate should oppose any nominee to replace outgoing U.S. Attorney...
Sims slams media for calling Oklahoma beheading by radical Islamist ‘workplace violence’
Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims took to social media on Friday to express frustration with the mainstream media's coverage of the beheading of an...
Sessions: Obama displacing US servicemembers by recruiting illegal immigrants for military
With an unprecedented illegal immigration crisis raging, the President announces not enforcement actions to reduce illegality, but yet one more in an endless series...
Byrne: Obama must lay out ISIL strategy, ask Congress to authorize military force
Last Wednesday night, students from throughout the First Congressional District gathered in a Mobile auditorium to learn details about attending one of the five...
Shelby: Obama’s executive amnesty plan unconstitutional, ‘must not be tolerated’
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on Thursday added his considerable inside-the-beltway influence to the anti-amnesty movement by publicly declaring President Obama's executive amnesty plan "both...