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Opinion | Wins for West Alabama: 2025 session highlights from HD 16

Opinion | Wins for West Alabama: 2025 session highlights from HD 16

The 2025 Legislative Session was my second representing House District 16, which includes all of Fayette, northern Tuscaloosa and western Jefferson Counties. After winning this seat in a contested special election in 2024, I have worked every day...

Good Ol’ Boy Racism Chokes Out History and Health

Good Ol’ Boy Racism Chokes Out History and Health

Today we celebrate the birth of a nation built by slaves on stolen land. Two and a half centuries later, the United States of America still treats people inhumanely because of their skin color, sexual orientation, gender, or religion. It’s 2025,...

What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: July 6, 2025

What’s happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: July 6, 2025

• Arm-of-the-Sea Theater will perform its new show, “Rags to Riches: Stories from a Saugerties Paper Mill” on Wednesdays, July 9, 16, 23 and 30 at the Arm-of-the-Sea Tidewater Center, 57 E. Bridge St, Saugerties. Doors open at 6 p.m., followed by...

Alabama Hospital Enhances Security with Advanced Cameras, AI Technology

Alabama Hospital Enhances Security with Advanced Cameras, AI Technology

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Huntsville Hospital has unveiled a series of upgraded security measures designed to provide a safer environment for patients, staff, and visitors. Over the past three years, hospital leaders have made significant investments in...

Chamber, Alabama ONE host Lunch, Learn

Chamber, Alabama ONE host Lunch, Learn

Coosa Chamber members and elected officials attend a Lunch and Learn event hosted by Alabama ONE, learning more about the credit union’s services while enjoying lunch and networking with fellow Chamber members. Photo by Christa Jennings By Christa...

AG Marshall opens applications for 2025 Alabama Safe Schools Initiative

AG Marshall opens applications for 2025 Alabama Safe Schools Initiative

Deadline for applications is August 15 Special to the News On Monday Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the application process for the 2025 Alabama Safe Schools Initiative Awards. These awards provide the opportunity to identify...

300,000 Pennsylvania residents could lose Medicaid under ‘big, beautiful bill’

300,000 Pennsylvania residents could lose Medicaid under ‘big, beautiful bill’

Some 3 million Pennsylvania residents are covered by Medicaid, the publicly funded health program marked for $900 billion in cuts over the next decade with congressional Republicans approving on Thursday President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful...

Alabama lawmakers react to Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' with it up for another vote in the House

Alabama lawmakers react to Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' with it up for another vote in the House

WAAY is Coverage You Can Count On for news, weather, sports and more from North Alabama and the rest of the world. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/WAAYTV President Donald Trump's self-proclaimed "Big, Beautiful Bill" is still...

Lil Wayne Checks Up on Deion Sanders’ Health & Demands Putting Gators in His Lake

Lil Wayne Checks Up on Deion Sanders’ Health & Demands Putting Gators in His Lake

Look, the spotlight might fade, but Deion Sanders never truly stay away from it. After a stunning 9-4 season ignited Colorado fans’ hopes, Coach Prime seemed poised for even greater success. However, an undisclosed health issue abruptly sidelined...

Alabama's Ryan Williams sends message to Cederian Morgan as 5-star WR commits to Kalen DeBoer's team for 2026

Alabama's Ryan Williams sends message to Cederian Morgan as 5-star WR commits to Kalen DeBoer's team for 2026

Cederian Morgan committed to play for Kalen DeBoer's Alabama Crimson Tide on Wednesday. The five-star wide receiver, ranked No. 2 in the 2026 class, chose Alabama over Florida, Georgia and Colorado. Later on Wednesday, Alabama star wide receiver...

Panama City Native Ruby Tilghman builds legacy of service through music, medicine, and community

Panama City Native Ruby Tilghman builds legacy of service through music, medicine, and community

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Summers in Panama City hold a special place in Ruby Tilghman’s heart. “I’m actually at Captain Anderson’s Marina, which is where I work in the summers,” Tilghman said. “I like to meet my parents here to watch the...

Wellness Wednesday | What you need to know about snake safety

Wellness Wednesday | What you need to know about snake safety

Summer is snake season. Here's what you need to know about snakes you might encounter. DECATUR, Ala. — With warmer temperatures across the Tennessee Valley everyone wants to spend more time outside in the summertime sunshine. But humans aren’t the...

Alabama-Coushatta Tribe Recognized by DETCOG

Alabama-Coushatta Tribe Recognized by DETCOG

Special to the News-Times The citizens of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas were named the 2025 East Texans of the Year on Thursday, in recognition of almost two centuries of service, friendship, and support to East Texas and the entire State...

Highlands Medical Center offering free CNA certification courses starting this month

Highlands Medical Center offering free CNA certification courses starting this month

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (WAFF) - Highlands Medical Center in Scottsboro is offering a pathway into a medical career completely free of charge. The Huntsville Hospital Affiliate is offering free Certified Nursing Assistant courses as well as...

First psychiatric resident graduates from program at North Alabama Shoals Hospital

First psychiatric resident graduates from program at North Alabama Shoals Hospital

MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. (WAFF) - Employees at North Alabama Shoals Hospital are celebrating their very first graduate from the psychiatric residency program. The program was created four years ago. Sumita Chakrapani is the first person to graduate...

Lana Del Rey delights crowds by bringing out Addison Rae for her sold-out Wembley show as fans brand their duet of Diet Pepsi 'iconic'

Lana Del Rey delights crowds by bringing out Addison Rae for her sold-out Wembley show as fans brand their duet of Diet Pepsi 'iconic'

Lana Del Rey delighted crowds when she brought out Addison Rae for her sold-out Wembley show on Thursday night. Thousands of fans headed to the north London music venue to hear her many catchy hits amid her current UK and Ireland tour. And they...

Sharon Green

Sharon Green

Sharon Denise Hill Green of Greensboro, Alabama, passed away on June 20, 2025, at DCH Regional Medical Center. She was 56 years old. Sharon was born on October 20, 1968, in Greensboro, to the late Henderson and Sarah Mae Hill. She received Christ...

Removal case against Sheriff Alfred Montgomery gets a judge, hearing date

Removal case against Sheriff Alfred Montgomery gets a judge, hearing date

ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Supreme Court has appointed a retired St. Louis Circuit Judge to preside over the removal case against Sheriff Alfred Montgomery. Judge Steven R. Ohmer, who served on the bench in St. Louis courts for 30 years before...

Two shootings happened within 24 hours, Montgomery police say

Two shootings happened within 24 hours, Montgomery police say

The Montgomery Police Department responded to two separate shootings across the city within a 24-hour span from July 2-3, authorities said. Officers responded to a shooting at 2:15 p.m. July 2 in the 2100 block of East South Boulevard, MPD Sgt....

Food assistance use in Jefferson County: Down 33.3% since 2015

Food assistance use in Jefferson County: Down 33.3% since 2015

Kelly Garcia Director of the Iowa Department of Health Human Services (HHS) | Official Website Kelly Garcia Director of the Iowa Department of Health Human Services (HHS) | Official Website Jefferson County saw a 33.3% decrease in the number of...

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