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September 17, 2024 – Montgomery – retired longtime state legislator Priscilla Dunn (D-Bessemer) passed away she was age 80. On Thursday, Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL07) spoke on the House Floor to honor the life and legacy of former State Senator Dunn. "A lifelong educator and trailblazing public servant, Senator Dunn dedicated her life to the betterment of her community and the State of Alabama," said Rep. Sewell in her House floor speech. "In 1961, she graduated from Abrams High School in...
Overall the Alabama Gazette panel had a good week picking Southeastern Conference football games. More teams will be starting conference play this week so expect some real wars like the LSU v. South Carolina and Georgia v. Kentucky games this week. A number of teams are still playing out of conference opponents. SEC games of the week Florida is at Mississippi State Ohio is at Kentucky Arkansas is at Auburn UCLA is at LSU Vanderbilt is at Missouri Akron is at Sout Carolina Bowling Green is at...
The UAB Blazers football team traveled to Arkansas on September 14 and picked up their second loss of the season. UAB was stepping up in class to play a Southeastern Conference powerhouse – the Arkansas Razorbacks. UAB looked much improved over its week 2 performance against ULM; but still picked up the L – 27 to 37. UAB has started the season 1 and 2. The game was tied at halftime at 20 points; but Arkansas dominated the second half 7 to 17. UAB moved the ball at will racking up 354 yards of to...
Auburn has played four opponents. They crushed SWAC Alabama State (2-1), lost to the University of California, beat (0-3) New Mexico, and now have been defeated by their first SEC opponent in Arkansas (3-1) 24 to 14. It was Auburn's second five turnover performance and Auburn's second disappointing home loss. Auburn though they had their quarterback situation settled moving forward after the win over New Mexico. Nothing could be further from the truth in the wake of Saturday's performance at...
September 20, 2024 – Winfield – State Representative Tracy Estes (R-Winfield) presentative had a protection order filed against him accusing him of making violent threats. Estes was booked for a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence. The charges were made by his wife – Christina Estes. Christina Estes, said in a legal filing that Rep. Estes cursed her during an argument at their home on Friday. She then locked herself in her room. He then spent two hours beating on the dorr and threa...
September 22, 2024 – Birmingham - 21 people were shot – four of them fatally – in a mass shooting at a night club at Birmingham's Five Points South. Congresswoman Terri A Sewell (D-AL07) released a statement following Saturday night's shooting. "I am heartbroken by last night's horrific mass shooting in Five Points South," said Rep. Sewell. "I join in extending my sincere condolences to the families whose loved ones were lost, and I pray for a full and speedy recovery for those injured." "We a...
September 19, 2024 – Washinton, D.C. - Congressman Barry Moore (R-AL02) released a statement after voting in support of a continuing resolution that would have kept the government funded for six months and includes the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office. Rep. Moore is a co-sponsor of this legislation. Since the beginning of the Biden-Harris A...
September 23, 2024 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), Katie Britt (R-Alabama), Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), Tim Kaine (D-Virginia.), Ted Budd (R-North Carolina), and John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) introduced the Defending American Property Abroad Act in retaliation to efforts on the part of the Mexican government to seize a port owned by Alabama based Vulcan Materials. The Defending American Property Abroad Act would impose retaliatory prohibitions against the Government...
September 24, 2024 – Moody, Alabama – The Moody Police Department (MPD) announced that they have made an arrest of an individual for making threats to Moody Schools. "We are aware of the screenshots being shared about a threat to Moody Middle School and the schools in general," the MPD announced in a statement released to Facebook on Monday. "We want the public to know that we are already investigating these threats currently. We will also have an increased presence at all schools this wee...
September 24, 2024 – Moody, Alabama – the Moody Police Department (MPD) has released a statement announcing the arrest of a juvenile for making terrorist threats targeting the Moody Middle School. The MPD received numerous reports of terroristic threats on Snapchat suggesting that gun violence would be perpetrated against Moody schools as early as today. Moody police and detectives worked throughout Monday night to identify the individual responsible for the threats and alert school off...
September 24, 2024 – Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) and Katie Britt (R-Alabama) released a rare joint press release to announced that they have joined U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 41 Republican colleagues from both Houses of Congress in signing a letter urging President Joseph R. Biden (D) and Vice President Kamala D. Harris (D) to work with Congress to root out abuses in the unaccompanied alien children (UAC) program and stop what they called the D...
Auburn stepped up in competition to open SEC play versus Arkansas and the wheels came off. This shocked most of the Alabama Gazette panel – who outside of the Tigers' lackluster performance had a good week picking Southeastern Conference football games in week four. The SEC games of the week were: Florida won at Mississippi State 45 to 28 Ohio lost at Kentucky 6 to 41 Arkansas won at Auburn 24 to 14 UCLA lost at LSU 17 to 34 Vanderbilt lost at Missouri 27 to 30 Akron lost at Sout Carolina 7 t...
UPDATED September 27,2024 at 4:42 a.m. Hurricane Helene tracked further to the east than predicted in this article. It hit Florida at around 10:00 p.m. on Thursday night at a powerful Category 4 storm. The eye of the storm made landfall in Taylor County (to the east of where it was anticipated to hit. The Hurricane is tracking now towards Macon, Georgia. This more easterly track means that Alabama will not be heavily impacted by Helene. September 25,2025 Hurricane Helene developed rapidly in...
September 23, 2024 - Montgomery. – The Alabama House Democratic Caucus issues a statement following a mass shooting incident in Birmingham on Saturday night that left 21 people shot – four of them dead. The lawmakers used this incident to target Alabama's permitless carry bill (passed in 2022 and to promote legislation that would make it a felony to possess a "Glock cap" – a device that converts a semiautomatic handgun to one that functions as an automatic weapon. "Words cannot describe the g...
September 27, 2024 – Florida - Hurricane Helene hit the Florida Gulf Coast in the Big Bend region overnight as a Category 4 storm that was 400 miles wide at its apex. The storm which developed quickly impacted a larger area of the Gulf Coast than anticipated just 48 – and even 24 – hours earlier. It is still dark but there are fears of massive destruction and deaths from the storm. The storm tracked further east than earlier anticipated so has not and will not impact Alabama as severely as ea...
September 26,2024 – Atmore – the State of Alabama executed triple-murderer Alan Miller by Nitrogen Hypoxia. This is only the second time that someone has been executed using nitrogen hypoxia. Alan Eugene Miller spent decades behind bars awaiting his execution for the senseless murders of Lee Holdbrooks, Christopher Yancy, and Terry Jarvis. The execution was performed at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama after Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) told Corrections Com...
September 26, 2024 – Washington – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) recently said that Vice President and Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States Kamala Harris (California) got in this position because she is someone that Democratic Party elites "Can Control." Tuberville made these comments in an interview on Fox Business Channel's Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo told Tuberville, "Vice President Kamala Harris sat for her first solo interview since launching her Pre...
The SEC conference season is heating up this week with both Alabama and Auburn hosting major SEC opponents. Most people have Alabama and Georgia as two of the best three teams in the conference. The two play in Tuscaloosa this week for supremacy and that coveted first track spot towards going to Atlanta for the SEC Championship game. Auburn (2-2) faces its toughest opponent yet when Oklahoma comes to the Plains on Saturday. The SEC games of the week are: Kentucky at Ole Miss Arkansas at Texas...
September 27, 2024 – Montgomery – the Director of the Alabama Cannabis Industry Association (ACIA), Chey Garrigan, says that allegations made against her and the association are baseless and false. The lawsuit against the ACIA was first published in the Alabama Political Reporter (APR). "I have been made aware of the story in the APR about an alleged lawsuit filed against the Alabama Cannabis Industry Association claiming fraud," Garrigan said in a statement. "I can publicly say these all...
On Saturday, Oklahoma came to Jordain-Haire and came away with their first Southeastern Conference victory 27 to 21. Oklahoma scored a touchdown on their first possession with a 48 yard quarterback run by Michael Hawkins. Auburn dominated the first half, but only came away with 14 points, due to a failed attempt on a 4th and goal from the 1 yard line and a missed field goal. Those 10 lost points from the first half loomed large over the Tigers in the second half. Senior Quarterback Peyton...
Hurricane Helene largely missed Alabama; but left $20 billion in direct damages in six states and left at least 90 people dead over the last three days. The economic disruption caused by the storm is projected at $80 billion. That death toll is expected to rise as the flood waters recede. Over 2 million customers were without power on Sunday – over 790,000 of them in South Carolina and another 430,000 of them in North Carolina. Helene his the Big Bend area of Florida as a Category 4 h...
October 1, 2024 – the death toll for Hurricane Helene continues to climb. The massive hurricane that plowed into the Big Bend region of Florida on Friday left an 800 mile path of destruction across six states. Authorities acknowledge that at least 128 people are dead. Thousands of people who survived the storm (some of them suddenly homeless) are struggling to get food. The flood waters are receding, but thus far that has only revealed more of the destruction. Power crews are struggling to resto...
October 1, 2024 – Mobile – the International Longshoreman's Association (ILA) has gone on strike across the country effective at midnight on Monday impacting the nation's ports including the Port of Mobile. On Monday the Port Authority announced that it would stay open and hoped to minimize any disruptions caused by the strike. "The Port of Mobile is both a landlord and operating port with diverse cargo handling capabilities, from steel and coal to general cargo and containers," the Port Aut...
October 1, 2024 - WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) and Katie Britt (R-Alabama) joined U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) in cosponsoring a resolution designating October 6-12, 2024 as "Religious Education Week" to emphasize the importance of religious education and celebrate the schools and organizations engaged in religious education. "Education is the key that unlocks opportunity," said Senator Tuberville. "Every child in America ought to have the option o...
October 1, 2024 – Washington – the government of the nation of Israel announced that it is under missile attack from the nation of Iran. U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) were both quick to release short statements to their X accounts reiterating their support for Israel in its ongoing war with Iran and their terrorist proxies. Senator Katie Boyd Britt said, "Israel, America stands with you and your people. We are praying with you as you weather attacks fro...
