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March 19, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) signed bipartisan legislation that would ban devices that make handguns fire out all of their rounds in a burst on the pull of the trigger. Handguns come from the factory where there has to be a separate trigger pull for each bullet. So-called "Glock switches" are already illegal under federal law. This legislation makes it a state crime to be in possession of, manufacture, or distribute illegal Glock switches allowing district...
March 18, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL. – The Alabama Senate narrowly passed a bill that would allow as many as 200 inmates of the Alabama Department of Corrections to petition the court for a new sentencing hearing. Senate Bill 156 (SB156) is sponsored by state Senator Will Barfoot (R-Pike Road). Barfoot explained that under existing law there are persons in the Alabama Department of Corrections who were sentenced under the 1980s-era Habitual Offender Sentencing Act. This bill would apply to "150 to...
March 18, 2025 – The Alabama Senate Government Affairs Committee gave a favorable report that would allow a new sheriff to retain all of the accrued cost of living increases of the former sheriff. House Bill 157 (HB157) is sponsored by state Representative Paul Lee (R-Dothan). "If you have a sheriff who has been there for years he has received cost of living raises over the years," explained Representative Lee. "If they retire or gets beat the new sheriff will not get the cost of living i...
On March 15, 44 B. C. the Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar was stabbed to death on the floor of the Senate by Brutus, Cassius, and several other Senators. Julius Caesar was one of the most consequential people who ever lived, and his assassination led to momentous changes for the Roman world that literally changed the course of human history. Rome had been a republic for centuries but the civil war between 83 and 82 B.C. changed Rome (already a slave state where violence and assassinati...
The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that 14 tornadoes touched down across Central Alabama during the severe weather event on March 15. The tornadoes varied in intensity, The most powerful was rated as an EF3. Six were rated as EF2s, four were rated as EF1s, and three were rated as EF0s. 3 people were killed. Hundreds of thousands of people were able to get in their safe places ahead of the storms due to the efforts of the National Weather Service and TV meteorologists. We have far...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, announced recently that it has launched a new satellite office in the state of Alabama. Veteran attorney Britton O'Shields has been hired to serve as the office's lead attorney. O'Shields is the first hire for CAIR's revamped presence in the state of Alabama. O'Shields is a graduate of the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham. She previously worked for CAI...
The University of Alabama men's basketball team is in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament for the third year in a row. If they want to advance further then they will have to beat Brigham Young on Thursday. The number two seeded Tide defeated St. Mary's on Sunday 80 to 66. Bama led by 13 at the half. Alabama is coached by Nate Oats "We got up on them (St. Mary's) 13 at the half. We knew they weren't going to go away," said Coach Oats after the game. "They came out in the second half and were...
March 27, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) and Congressman Barry Moore (R-AL01) are working to boost Alabama's agriculture community while making healthy foods more accessible for Alabama's more than 54,000 seniors by reintroducing the Farmers' Market Expansion Act. This bipartisan legislation would make pecans and other tree nuts eligible for the USDA's Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP). The legislation would make tree nuts, including pec...
March 27, 2025 - The UAB Blazers men's basketball team's 2024-25 season came to a close on Wednesday night, losing 81-77 in overtime to UC Irvine in the quarterfinal round of the NIT. They end the season with a 24-13 record overall. Senior Forward Christian Coleman had 21 points, 14 rebounds, and two assists for the Blazers in the loss. Senior Forward Yaxel Lendeborg had 13 points, 17 rebounds, and four assists. Senior Guard Alejandro Vasquez had 14 points, three rebounds, and two assists....
March 27, 2025 – NEWARK, N.J – The number two seeded University of Alabama men's basketball team thoroughly dominated BYU 113 to 88. The 25 point rout keeps Alabama's hopes of a Final Four appearance alive. Big games are where bigtime talents rise to the top and Alabama Senior Guard Mark Sears had one of the best performances of his career on Thursday. Sears had 17 points in the first half alone on his way to a 34-point individual performance that included an incredible ten 3-point shots mad...
March 28, 2025 – ATLANTA, GA - The number one seeded Auburn Tigers men's basketball team will be playing for a berth in the Final Four on Sunday after defeating Michigan 78 to 65 Friday night. Auburn had a 30 to 29 lead at halftime; but Michigan was totally unprepared for the defensive intensity of Auburn in the second half. It was a down shooting night for the Tigers who shot just 39.4 percent from the field and 28.6 percent from the three-point line. Auburn was 3 of 16 from 3 in the first half...
March 29, 2025 – Newark, NJ. – The University of Alabama men's basketball team had their season come to an end on Saturday night when they faced the number one seeded Duke Blue Devils, Duke cruised to an 85 to 65 win over the Tide, Duke's Freshman phenom Cooper Flagg was a mismatch for Alabama. He did not have a as great a game as he had in Thursday's matchup with Arizona earlier; but his early 3 – point shots made set a tone that Alabama did not have a player who could match up with the six f...
On this day in 1965, in Selma, all white Alabama State Troopers, acting on the orders of Gov. George Wallace (D), aided by local law enforcement and citizen volunteers, used tear gas, clubs and brute force to prevent peaceful voting rights marchers from crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The march had been organized by Rev. Joseph Lowery, future Congressman John Lewis and local leaders who had planned a Selma to Montgomery march to protest the state of Alabama's systemic disenfranchisement of...
On March 10, 1945, an estimated 100,000 Japanese died in Tokyo after 334 US B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs. In the 1930s, Army Air Corps planners studying at the Air Corps Tactical School at Montgomery's Maxwell Field developed the principle of high-altitude daytime precision bombing. While the British abandoned precision daylight bombing for nighttime fire-bombing in 1942, the U.S. Army Air Corps targeted individual factories, railyards, refineries, ports,...
March 9, 2025 – Body camera video of the last minutes of Otis French Jr. by Bay Minette police officer was released to Twitter. On August 22, 2023 – French, a 32-year-old Black man, was killed after the White Bay Minette police officer, Brandon Thompson, pulled him over near his home because a blinker light was out on his vehicle. Officer Thompson was giving French a warning ticket for the mechanical violation; when he asked French to get out of the car. Then things just went completely out of c...
As anybody who has managed a workforce of substantial size already knows, Alabama has a drug and mental health problem; but the state and the University of Alabama are teaming up to help employers deal with this challenging element of the state's workforce. The state is offering businesses free training to help supervisors identify and respond to mental health and substance abuse issues within the workforce. The University of Alabama's VitAL partnership uses education and training to help...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) told reporters recently that proposed budget cuts to Medicaid and healthcare will be targeted toward waste, fraud, and abuse rather than service cuts. The Alabama Gazette asked Senator Tuberville about the House budget bill that had passed that decreased the amount of money for Medicaid and healthcare spending. We asked Tuberville if he was concerned that if they go too far with the Medicaid and healthcare cuts causing more of our r...
March 6, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Shomari C. Figures (D-AL02) and Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL07) sent a joint letter on Thursday calling for the immediate removal of the Freedom Rides Museum from the U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA) list of properties slated for sale. "The museum serves as an essential historical landmark that not only honors the legacy of the Freedom Riders but also educates the public about our nation's struggle for equality and justice," Figures and Sewell wrote...
March 8, 2025 - AUBURN, AL. – The University of Alabama men's basketball team narrowly edged out Auburn in overtime to split the season series. All-American Johni Broome (Senior forward/center) played lights out in a nip and tuck game where he set a career-high of 34, 8 rebounds, and 3 assists. Broome hit a three-point shot to give Auburn a one-point lead with a little over a minute to play; but the Tide fought back down the stretch. Broome hit another three-point shot with 14 seconds left in O...
February 21, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The state of Alabama suffered a devastating loss in a cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. The court found that people denied unemployment claims by the state during the COVID pandemic can sue the state. During the COVID-19 pandemic the state shut down in a failed attempt to stop the spread of the virus – which at that time was new to the country. The result was that hundreds of thousands of workers were suddenly jobless. Unemployment claims soared and t...
March 7, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL. – The Alabama House of Representatives Ways and Means Education Committee carried over a controversial bill, opposed by immigrant rights groups, that would have put a fee on international wire transfers. The move was touted as an anti-illegal immigration bill. House Bill 297 (HB297) is sponsored by State Representative Jennifer Fidler (R-Fairhope). Fidler said that the wire transfer fee would affect individuals who are using a service such as Western Union, MoneyG...
March 6, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL. – The Alabama House of Representatives passed Governor Kay Ivey's (R) hostile takeover of the Alabama department of Veterans Affairs legislation with little discussion. Senate Bill 67 (SB67) was sponsored by State Representative Andrew Jones (R-Centre) and carried in the House by State Representative Ed Oliver (R-Dadeville). The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs was created by veterans following World War II and for seventy years has been a nonpartisan age...
March 5, 2025 – The Alabama House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation that would make it easier for prosectors to punish persons who make terroristic threats against schools. House Bill 233 (HB233) is sponsored by State Representative Alan Baker (R-Brewton). Baker said that HB233 deals making it easier to prosecute persons who are making terrorist threats against schools. "This would allow a district attorney to bring charges for making a terrorist threat against a school without p...
March 5, 2025 – MOBILE, AL – The Mobile community was rocked by the news that VT Aerospace was closing its operations at Mobile's Brookley Aeroplex costing the city of Mobile 290 jobs. Mobile Mayor Stephen Nodine blamed the lack of leadership for the company moving those jobs elsewhere. Nodine was formerly the Chairman of the Mobile County Commission. At that time Airbus was attempting to obtain a tanker contract from the Air Force – a contract they ultimately lost despite problems with the B...
MARCH 5, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL – The Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee voted to reject legislation that would have charged $5 a year on every car license plate in the state to fund public transportation. Senate Bill 11 (SB11) is sponsored by state Senator Linda Coleman Madison (D-Birmingham). "Alabama has let billions of dollars go back to the federal government because we do not have a dedicated funding source for public transportation," said Sen. Coleman Madison. Sen. Col...
