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November 26, 2024 – HAWAII – the Auburn Tigers basketball team defeated Iowa State in in an invitational tournament played in the island state. The Tigers at one point trailed by 18 points to the number four team in the country; but Auburn is the number four team in the country for a reason. Auburn came storming back to win 83 to 81 when Johni Broome tipped the ball in for the game winning shot. Broome, a 6-10 senior, had 21 points and ten rebounds to lead the Tigers in the victory. "We are ver...
This Thanksgiving, let us pause and give thanks to Almighty God for His abundant blessings, His mercy, and His enduring faithfulness. As we gather with family and friends around our tables, it's easy to be discouraged by the challenges our nation faces. Many voices in our world today would have us believe that America's best days are behind us-that division, moral decay, and uncertainty define our future. But I say to you: America's best days are not behind us. They are ahead of us-because of...
Our nation's veterans deserve to be celebrated every day. They have bravely put their lives on the line so that Americans can walk freely. In November we celebrate numerous veteran-related holidays: The Marine Corps' Birthday, National Veteran Small Business Week, and Veterans Day, to name a few. It is on days like these that I am somberly reminded of those who have lost their lives so that I might freely live mine. I often think of the many soldiers, including my dad, who have gone before us...
The holiday season feels a little less jolly considering the amount of waste generated by gift-giving. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates the amount of household garbage in the U.S. increases by 25% between Thanksgiving and New Year's. After the decorations come down, all that waste heads to landfills, producing a significant contributor to climate change: methane gas. "Greening" the holidays is essential, and one simple tip is to think more about how sustainable the materials are in...
If there is one thing that fans of any sport love, it's a scandal. A fallen hero, a desperate plot, or an outrageous scam always offer a major talking point when the latest misdemeanor has been broken to the public. Be it drug cheats in track and field events, scandals in the casino or anything in between, the shock factor is always going to make the headlines; and when it comes to headlines, they do not get much bigger than a gambling scandal. These scandals can entail the desire to bend the...
November 27, 2024 – HAWAIII - the Auburn University men's basketball team defeated number 12 ranked North Carolina to advance to the championship round of the Maui Invitational. The number 4 Tigers had previously beaten number 5 Iowa State. They will play Memphis who has beaten Michigan State and the University of Connecticut. Auburn is 6 and 0 with three wins against teams in the top 12. While Auburn had to come from behind to narrowly outlast Iowa State, Tuesday's (in Hawaii time) game a...
The holiday season is the perfect time of year to enjoy a cup of coffee, whether you're settling into a coffee shop armchair and catching up with friends, or pulling into a drive-thru for a quick reprieve while running errands. Fast food restaurants have pulled out the stops when it comes to winter-inspired flavors this year. Hers looked at the largest U.S. fast-food chains with exclusive holiday drink menus and ranked them from "healthiest" to least healthy. There's quite a range when it comes...
There's nothing quite like hitting the open road in a lifted truck, but not if you're worried about getting stopped by the cops. Every state has its own lifted truck laws, and no two states are exactly alike. Even if you plan on spending most of your time off-road, you need to comply with your state's rules and guidelines for lifted trucks. You may scoff at the idea of anyone telling you what you can and can't do with your truck, but these laws put an emphasis on safety. They're designed to...
In recent Alabama elections observers could predict how Alabamians vote simply by eyeballing them with better than 80% accuracy. 82 to 84% of White voters voted for the Republican candidate and 90 to 94% of Black voters voted for the Democratic candidate. That trend may be changing according to the Alabama Republican Party's post-election analysis. ALGOP reports that they have made significant gains with Black voters – particularly in rural areas. The Alabama GOP picked up three seats in d...
The 2024 General Election results have been certified by the Alabama State Canvassing Board. The canvassing board consists of Governor Kay Ivey, Secretary of State Wes Allen, and Attorney General Steve Marshall. "On November 5, Alabamians cast 2,265,090 ballots for president in a fair, secure, and transparent election," Secretary Allen said. "This election was administered with election integrity as the top priority, and I am proud to officially certify the results today." The certified...
When pilot Kenneth Arnold took off from Chehalis, Washington, in his single-engine airplane one afternoon in June 1947, he was looking for a lost military aircraft that had crashed. But what he found was something completely different—something that would set off a cultural obsession in the U.S. that persists today. While flying around Mount Rainier, Arnold reportedly encountered nine curious, wingless objects speeding through the sky at 1,200 mph, faster than any plane at the time could. Arnold...
It seems there isn't a day that goes by without a headline about contaminated food resulting in a recall or outbreak. In mid-November 2024, the Food and Drug Administration began investigating an E. coli outbreak from organic carrots sold at popular grocery stores like Kroger, Wegmans, Sprouts, and Trader Joe's, affecting people in more than a third of U.S. states. Earlier in 2024, a listeria outbreak from Boar's Head deli meats resulted in the recall of 7 million pounds of meat, 61 reported...
November 27, 2024 - Four years ago the military determined that the best place to locate Space Command was at Huntsville, Alabama's Redstone Arsenal. This decision was based on a nonpartisan analysis by a Pentagon team that evaluated a dozen contenders for the site. Huntsville won going away. Then Joseph R. Biden became President of the United States and national security concerns became subordinate to political concerns. Alabama was a red state that had voted for President Donald J. Trump (R);...
Today is the official observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The original Thanksgiving holiday occurred 403 years ago. Most of the attendees were member of a Christian radical religious separatist group we now call Pilgrim and their Wampanoag Indian neighbors. The Pilgrims were supposed to have gone to the already established English colony in Jamestown, Virginia; but being religious dissenters enroute to America they announced their intention to form their own separate colony on the Hudson....
The holiday shopping season can be the most wonderful time of year for consumers—but it's the most important time of year for small business owners. Yet many small business owners find themselves in a tight spot, as the growth of online shopping transforms major retailers into the go-to for shoppers seeking both convenience and good deals. While e-commerce platforms take precedence, many small businesses don't even have a website—and those that do may lack digital accessibility. This puts the...
Pivot counties are the 206 counties nationwide Ballotpedia identified as having voted for Barack Obama (D) in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections and Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Media and political observers sometimes refer to these counties as swing counties. Trump won 179 pivot counties in all three of his presidential runs and won 175 of them by a larger margin in 2024 than in 2020. Harris won by a smaller margin than Biden in seven of the nine pivot counties they each won. Overall, pivot...
In the morning before class starts, one by one the students at the Würenloser Gesamtschule near Zürich in Switzerland turn off their smartphones and drop them into a simple wooden box at the front of their classroom. The devices will remain there until the gong rings at the end of their school day. "I don't even take it to school anymore," one 12th-grader says. "It only distracts me." His peers agree. "We talk more with each other instead of everybody staring at their screens," his friend s...
What is one of the busiest days of the year in many Veterinary Hospitals? If you guessed the Friday after Thanksgiving, then give yourself a high five. While Thanksgiving is a wonderful time for families to get together and enjoy bountiful food, that same food can be harmful to some of our pets if they eat to much or the wrong foods. Fatty foods are hard for many animals to digest, turkey (and other) bones can damage your pet's digestive tract, and holiday sweets can contain ingredients that are...
November 27, 2024 (Montgomery, Ala.) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a multistate coalition suing BlackRock, State Street Corporation, and Vanguard Group, three of the largest institutional investors in the world, for conspiring to artificially depress output and increase the cost of coal through anticompetitive trade practices. Over several years, the three asset managers acquired substantial stockholdings in every significant publicly held coal producer in the United S...
Taking photographs used to be a careful, conscious act. Photos were selective, frozen moments in time carefully archived in albums and frames. Now, taking a photograph is almost as effortless and common as breathing—it's something that people do all the time in the age of smartphone cameras with seemingly endless digital film. But the downside to capturing every moment is that it creates a mountain of those moments to save for the future. Those photos can be easily lost if they're not a...
The glitz and glam of Hollywood captures the attention of Americans starting from an early age. Beyond celebrities' Instagram Stories and red carpet poses, there are actors out there paying their dues and honing their craft in pursuit of a sustainable career or a fulfilling sideline. Submitting to casting calls is a big part of that journey. Whether you're a working actor or an aspiring one, you might be curious to know which movies and TV shows are casting roles near you. Backstage compiled a...
In a continuing effort to minimize the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the state, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' (ADCNR) Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division held this season's first mandatory CWD check last weekend in Lauderdale County. WFF staff sampled 356 deer for CWD, a neurodegenerative disease that affects cervids, including white-tailed deer, at the sampling stations in Lauderdale County. In addition to samples from Lauderdale and...
November 29, 2024 - It is hard to believe that the SEC season is coming to an end; but this is the last week; before we go to the SEC Championship game, the playoffs, and the bowl games. The SEC games of the last week are: Texas versus Texas A&M Vanderbilt hosts Tennessee Auburn at Alabama Georgia Tech is at Georgia Mississippi State is at Ole Miss Louisville is at Kentucky Florida State is at Florida South Carolina is at Clemson Missouri hosts Arkansas Oklahoma is at LSU The Alabama Gazette pan...
November 29, 2024 - TUSCALOOSA, AL - For football fans who seek the opportunity to smile and wave at their friends and relatives from the television screen, the SEC network's signature traveling show, SEC Nation, is filming live from Tuscaloosa, Alabama ahead of the November 30th, 2024 Alabama v. Auburn game. A sports talk show featuring the anchors Laura Rutledge, Tim Tebow, Jordan Rodgers, Paul Finebaum, and Roman Harper, SEC Nation starts airing live at nine AM central time on Saturday...
The impact of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's friendship with a Birmingham, Alabama native, Franklin Fisher, is brought to light in the biopic, "Bonhoeffer", now showing in movie theaters across the country. A German Lutheran theologian, Bonhoeffer, moved to America in 1930 where he studied at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. Coming from a highly educated German family, Bonhoeffer was not very impressed by the classes being taught at the seminary. But, his friendship with Franklin Fisher, an...
