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Country music fans from across the nation and even some foreign countries will gather in Montgomery on September 14 to pay tribute to the 101st birthday of singer and songwriter Hank Williams with a graveside memorial service and a gala concert at the Davis Theater. It is an annual pilgrimage that many fans make year after year, and it demonstrates the firm hold that Hank's legacy still has on so many country music aficionados today. Born in tiny Mount Olive, Alabama in 1923, Hank was taught to...
If your favorite college football team shows signs of needing more NIL money this Fall, tickets are now on sale for "Liberty Mountain", an historical drama centered around the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolution. With long-standing plays like "Horn In The West" in Boone and "The Lost Colony" in the Outer Banks; North Carolina is a state that likes to perpetuate its history through the theater. And with North Carolina being one of the original thirteen colonies that would...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AUG. 14, 2024) – A student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has won the 2024 Department of Energy (DOE) CyberForce competition®, a national contest designed to hone cybersecurity skills and visibility by challenging students to face off in simulated cyber-focused scenarios centered on securing operational energy technology from adversarial forces. Hunter Wittenborn, a computer science major heading into his sophomore year this fall at UAH, a part of the Univ...
The Alabama Federation of Republican Women will be holding a special screening of the new movie about President Ronald W. Reagan (R) in Huntsville on August 24 at 2:00 p.m. CDT in Huntsville at CINEMAX Bridge Street. Tickets are $5. President Sponsors Congressman Dale Strong Dutch Sponsors Monte Sano Research Wilmer Lee, Stan McDonald, Attorney Mac McCutcheon, Chairman, Madison County Commission Valerie Miles, Madison County Tax Collector Madison County Republican Exec Committee Tennessee...
(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today filed a 26-state amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision that the Constitution prohibits States from restricting girls' sports teams to biological females. The case arises from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held in June that Idaho's Fairness in Women's Sports Act likely violates the Equal Protection Clause by not allowing biological males-who identify as women-to compete on s...
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. – The Food Bank of North Alabama will be announcing its campaign Food is the Focus. People are the Why. at 4 p.m., Aug. 15 at 225 Finney Drive, SW, Huntsville, Ala., 35824. The announcement also will include speakers, a ribbon cutting ceremony and tours of its distribution center. Light refreshments will be provided. Food is the Focus. People are the Why. Campaign chairs are: Emily Propst Reiney, director of The Propst Foundation; Tracy Doughty, president and COO of H...
(Etowah, Ala.)-Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the capital murder conviction of Lonterry Orlando Harrison, 23, of Gadsden. Harrison was convicted in the Etowah County Circuit Court on October 24, 2022. The evidence at trial showed that the victim, A. J. Huff, was with a group of friends when he received a text message that someone wanted to buy marijuana from him. The victim drove to the Starnes Park Apartments to complete the sale....
Traveling abroad can be an expensive proposition. But with international travel rates up and economic factors favoring American travelers, many global destinations are more affordable than domestic travel for U.S. jet-setters—especially now. Four years after international travel ground to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 285 million tourists in the first quarter of 2024 traveled internationally, 97% of 2019 levels, according to the United Nations. That metric results from a strong...
The American sports betting boom is a freight train hurtling down the track. Despite increasing calls for regulation, there's no sign it will slow down as states in on the action continue raking in absurd sums. With climbing revenue, tax revenues climb too. According to the American Gaming Association, in the first quarter of 2024, gamblers wagered a record $36.86 billion on sports, creating $3.33 billion in revenue—and $804.5 million in tax revenue. Sports betting behemoth New York tops the l...
The Madison County Republican Party is thrilled to invite the public to our upcoming Candidate Campaign Kickoff event, scheduled for Saturday, August 17th, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The event will be held at Black Patch Distilling Co., located at 500 Lanier Road, Suite 3C, Madison, AL 35758. \ Congressman Dale Strong and Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl will be our special guests, delivering keynote speeches at 2:00 p.m. This event marks a significant moment as we gather to rally su...
Which U.S. counties are most likely to be impacted by hurricanes? With a hectic hurricane season forecasted for this summer, LawnStarter ranked 2024's most hurricane-vulnerable counties. The rankings considered hurricane risk assessments and anticipated financial loss from hurricanes according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). It also included the past 10 years of historical storm data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and access to national...
A new report from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found that more fish were farmed worldwide in 2022 than harvested from the wild, an apparent first. Last week, the FAO released its annual report on the state of aquaculture — which refers to the farming of both seafood and aquatic plants — and fisheries around the world. The organization found that global production from both aquaculture and fisheries reached a new high — 223.3 million metric tons of anima...
The 2025 Outdoor Alabama Photo Contest will begin accepting entries at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. The contest is a joint project between the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) and the Alabama Tourism Department. The deadline to enter is October 31, 2024. The 2025 photo contest will focus on traditional photography techniques and the use of handheld cameras. No cellphone, smartphone, game camera, or drone photography will be chosen as winning photos for...
A poorer than expected July jobs report sent stocks lower last week as investors fears of a spring recession increased. Alabama went opposite the national trend and total unemployment dropped from 2.9 percent in June to 2.8 percent in July. There was no noticeable improvement however in Alabama's labor force participation rate. It held steady in July. Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today that Alabama's labor force participation rate for July remains at 57.5...
MONTGOMERY, ALA – Rep. Rex Reynolds (R-Huntsville) has been named the 2024 Legislator of the Year by the Alabama 310 Association. Established by Alabama Act 310, 310 Boards are public, non-profit corporations that play a crucial role in providing free mental health and substance abuse services. The 19 faculties, spread across the state, operate at no cost to the 5,000 plus patients they serve. Rep. Reynolds, who serves as House General Fund Chairman, has prioritized funding mental health c...
August 16, 2024 Bessemer, AL – Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (D-AL07) toured the newly completed UAB Medical West Hospital. Rep. Sewell was joined by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Rural Development Dr. Basil Gooden, USDA State Director for Rural Development Nivory Gordon, and UAB Medical West CEO Keith Pennington. The newly completed UAB Medical West Hospital in Bessemer, Alabama was made possible in part by a $360 million USDA Community Facilities Direct Loan that R...
While the median sale price of U.S. homes is just shy of $421,000 in Q1 2024, homes in some areas more than doubled that average. These expensive places may prevent hopeful first-time homebuyers from investing in the area, making renting – or even moving to a less expensive area – a better alternative. In some cases, high wages and demand keeps the pressure up on a lackluster supply of homes. With this in mind, SmartAsset ranked the 100 largest metro areas based on the average home sale pri...
In a recent episode of her "Women & Money" podcast, personal finance expert Suze Orman provided key insights into the benefits of inheriting a Roth IRA compared to a traditional IRA, emphasizing how the former can simplify the lives of beneficiaries. One listener had a question about the best strategy for an inherited Roth IRA, asking for clarification on whether it was best to wait until the 10th year to withdraw funds to allow the money to grow tax-free for that entire period. Orman confirmed...
Although it took two tiebreakers, 12-year-old Bryson McGlynn of Opelika was once again crowned a champion for his age-defying culinary skills. Last December, McGlynn won the Gordon Ramsay Master Chef Junior competition, which aired on Fox in May. Last weekend, McGlynn was crowned champion of the Alabama Wildlife Federation's Wild Game Cook-Off State Finals at Millbrook. Cooking for the Loosen Your Black Belt Bunch team that advanced to the finals after winning the Tri-County regional competition...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AUG. 16, 2024) – Dr. Agnieszka Truszkowska, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has won the 2024 Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award. The national honor is a one-year $5,000 commitment aimed at enriching the research skills and professional growth of young faculty members at ORAU member institutions. Truszkowska's research f...
On Friday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) penned an op-ed in National Review in which he denounced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – the presumptive Democratic nominee for Vice President as having a radical vision for Alabama. Tuberville said that no amount of media spinning for the Democrats can cover up Walz's record as a dyed-in-the-wool leftist. Tuberville highlighted Governor Walz's inexplicable inaction when leftist rioters attacked the city of Minneapolis in the wake of the G...
“The National Congregations Study of Expressive Worship,” in cooperation with Duke University, published some interesting research findings about American worship. In summary, worship has become more expressive in recent years. Those who raise their hands in the worship of God (churches, synagogues and mosques) are numbered in more than 62 percent of our congregations, up from around 25 percent in 1998. I can’t remember people raising their hands in my boyhood church, or in most of the churc...
On Friday, Congressman Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) introduced Lulu's Law to the U.S. House of Representatives. Lulu's Law is named after Lulu Gribbin of Mountain Brook, Alabama, who is recovering after being attacked by a shark earlier in this summer. Only 90 minutes prior to Lulu Gribbin and McCray Faust being attacked, another woman was attacked by a shark just a few miles away. Lulu's Law would codify the ability for authorities to quickly deploy wireless emergency alerts (WEAs) to the public if s...
Last week, tired of the stalemate that has become the Russia-Ukraine War, President Volodymyr Zelensky did a strategic end around that that Russians were unprepared for and invaded the Kursk region of Russia itself. The ill prepared Russian troops they encountered there were largely new conscripts serving their mandatory year of military service and surrendered en masse. Ukraine has occupied 386 square miles of Russia – the first time a foreign power has invaded Russia itself since the German Ar...
August 18, 2024 - On Friday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) said that Vice President Kamala Harris's economics plans shows that she is telling American people that "she's a communist." Last week Vice President Kamala Harris (D) – the presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States unveiled her economic plan – imposing price controls on food, energy, and other consumer goods – while subsidizing down payments for first time home buyers. Senator Tuberville denou...
