There is something both sad and joyous about seeing wreaths leaning against the marble headstones of service members buried at the Alabama National Cemetery in Montevallo. Dec. 15 marked the 10th year that Wreaths Across America was held at the cemetery, which was one of more than 1,400 locations in the U.S., at sea and around […]

Alabama authorities say a plane crash has killed a pilot from Los Angeles. WVTM-TV reports that he was identified late Friday as 52-year-old Brett James Leistyna. The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office identified him after the wreckage of his plane was found Friday evening near Ashville.

WASHINGTON — Speaker of the House John Boehner last week led a ceremony to award Auburn University graduate Bobelle Sconiers Harrell the Congressional Gold Medal, considered alongside the Presidential Medal of Freedom as the United States’ highest civilian honor. Harrel received the medal posthumously for her service in World War II with the Civil Air […]