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Alabama did better than some states and worse than others when it comes to identity theft. The financial website Wallethub looked at data from the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission on issues like identity fraud complaints and state policies on data dumping and stopping spyware. Alabama was ranked midway at number twenty six nationally. -
Today is April fifteenth. But, that doesn’t necessarily mean a panicked trip to your accountant. The Internal Revenue Service says Alabama is among a group of states who are getting an extension to file their taxes. The new deadline is May first. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina are getting a break because of damage from Hurricane Helene last September. -
Tyler Booker, Deontae Lawson, Jalen Milroe, and Malachi Moore gathered in front of Denny Chimes on the Tuscaloosa campus of the University of Alabama. Moore is returning for another year with the Crimson Tide football team. Milroe, Lawson, and Booker have all reportedly declared for the 2025 NFL Draft. -
Huntsville defense contractor Teledyne Brown is on a list of twelve U.S. companies under an export ban from China. The communist nation is cutting off customers who are considered “dual use.” In other words, China components that could be used for either civilian or military purposes. -
Crimson Tide forward Mouhamed Dioubate helped Alabama make it to the Elite Eight during March Madness this year. He won’t be there to see the team try again next season. Dioubate is heading to Kentucky by way of the transfer portal. -
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it is ending a settlement agreement regarding wastewater problems in a rural Alabama county where most residents are Black, closing an environmental justice probe launched by the Biden administration. -
Tax season is soon coming to an end. Alabamians have until April 15 to file, and there is still time to submit your state and federal income documents on time. Tax experts advise filing electronically. This reduces tax return errors since the tax software does the calculations. -
An Alabama state judge ruled that a lawsuit accusing Alabama prisons of illegally harvesting the organs of people who died while incarcerated will be allowed to proceed. The consolidated lawsuits filed by eight families say that the Alabama Department of Corrections illegally allowed the University of Alabama at Birmingham to study the organs of their deceased incarcerated relatives without the consent of the next of kin. -
An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis. Towana Looney's doctors removed the organ on April 4 after her body began rejecting it. -
China has announced countermeasures by raising tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125% starting Saturday. This may further worsen the situation for Alabama exports to the communist nation. The U.S China Business Council says Alabama sent $4 billion in consumer products to Beijing in 2024. That doesn’t count $4 million in exported Alabama services that may soon face tariffs as well. -
An Alabama teen who narrowly survived a fierce shark attack last year said she hopes a proposed alert system before state lawmakers can help keep others safe in the water. Lulu Gribbin, now 16, was one of three people bitten by a shark last year, during a string of attacks off the Florida Panhandle. -
Former University of Alabama student Nick Dunlap had seen some big numbers start creeping into his game before he arrived at the Masters. Nothing could have prepared the Huntsville native for the amount of strokes he'd take in eighteen holes
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Gov. Kay Ivey has signed Senate Bill 40, also known as the Houston Hunter Act, into law. The act, named after Army veteran Houston Tumlin and Marine veteran Hunter Whitley who both lost their lives to suicide, aims to prevent veteran suicides by placing holds on firearms between individuals and federal firearm licensees and creates the Storing Ammunition and Firearms to Enhance Resilience Together Program. -
NeighborFest is a free festival that will highlight community connections and homeownership in Birmingham. The event, hosted by the City of Birmingham and GROWTH Homes aims to equip attendees with home buying knowledge through workshops and offering information on the process. NeighborFest will also have live entertainment, food vendors and a marketplace. -
The Trump administration’s new Secretary of Education is settling into her new job. Linda McMahon says part of her agenda is winding down this cabinet level agency as Donald Trump vows to dismantle it. That has educators and the general public watching to see what happens next to program like Title IX that guarantees equal treatment for women in sports and education. One person who might be impacted is easy to spot, with her sombrero, handlebar moustache, and bib overalls… -
Alabama exports to China may almost double in price soon. The communist nation is vowing to impose an eighty four percent tax on U.S. imports in retaliation to Donald Trump’s fifty percent tariff. The U.S. China Business Council says Alabama exported four billion dollars in products to China last year. -
The dust is barely settled on the college mens basketball season and now Alabama football is back in the limelight. The Crimson Tide’s modified spring scrimmage known as A-Day is this Saturday. It’s a practice session now instead of a full-blown game. While Alabama fans line up to watch this weekend’s modified A-Day game, the gears are turning on what may be a changing landscape in college athletics. -
Alabama lawmakers voted to put new regulations on pharmacy benefit managers in an effort to curb the closure of small pharmacies across the state. The state House of Representatives voted 102-0 for the proposal that will require pharmacy benefit managers to reimburse independent pharmacists at least at the state Medicaid rate for prescription drugs. The bill now goes to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey. -
Alabama legislators unanimously passed a bill that would expedite access to Medicaid for pregnant women, as more states across the South attempt to stem high maternal and infant mortality rates. The "presumptive eligibility" legislation states that Medicaid will pay for a pregnant woman's outpatient medical care for up to 60 days while an application for the government-funded insurance program is being considered. -
Alabama lawmakers are working on a bill that could bring more doctors to rural parts of the state. The measure would extend tax credits for physicians who practice in rural Alabama. It would eliminate earlier wording that denied that tax break to doctors who live outside the community they serve. -
Days of unrelenting downpours flooded Mobile and prompted the Mayor of Spanish Fort to urge residents to stay home. Swollen rivers rose to near record levels across Kentucky on Monday, submerging neighborhoods and threatening a famed bourbon distillery in the state capital. -
Several hundred people in Tuscaloosa joined in over a thousand anti-Donald Trump and Elon Musk protests held nationally over the weekend. Marchers in front of the Richard Shelby Federal Courthouse carried signs with slogans calling hands off social security, freedom of the press, freedom of speech and so on. -
Alabama exports to China could become more expensive by Thursday. The communist nation says it will impose a thirty four percent tax on all U.S. imports this week. That could hit Alabama hard. The U.S. China Business Council says the state sent over four billion dollars worth of exports to China in 2024. A billion of that was in the form of automobiles and car parts. -
Alabama and Auburn now have something in common. Neither team will be going for the college men’s basketball championship. The Tigers lost to Florida during the Final Four seventy to seventy three and Houston stunned Duke seventy to sixty seven. Alabama lost to the Blue Devils during the Elite Eight round
