By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News Gov. Kay Ivey was sworn into office Monday morning on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol. Ivey’s swearing in marked her official start to her first full term as governor as first Republican woman to be elected to the office in Alabama. Ivey remarked on this historic accomplishment at...
Here’s your Daily News for Sunday, January 13, 2019. 1. Ivey Inauguration: What to Expect The Inauguration for Gov. Kay Ivey will take place tomorrow and will official mark the beginning of Ivey’s full term as Governor for Alabama. Part of the festivities started last night at the new hotel and resort at Gulf Shores...
By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News Circuit Court Judge Sonny Reagan has issued an emergency order to restore Maori Davenport’s eligibility to play on her high school’s basketball team, the Charles Henderson Lady Trojans at tonights game. This will be the first time Davenport has been able to play in an AHSAA sanctioned game since the...
By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News President Donald Trump this week signed a bill into law after a months-long bipartisan effort between Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to provide public access to unsolved civil rights crime documents. The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act requires the review, declassification, and release of government...
By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News The federal government has awarded the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education more than $10 million to develop the state’s early child care services. Governor Kay Ivey announced on Tuesday that $10,620,000 was awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Child Care (OCC) through...
I hope everyone had a restful and fun holiday season. There is plenty of news today so let’s dive in. Here’s your Daily News for Sunday, January 6, 2019. 1. The Shutdown and Alabama With little progress being made toward agreement on border wall funding and no clear sign to when the partial government shutdown...
A new Navy warship will be named for Alabama's Jeremiah Denton, the former U.S. Senator and well-known Vietnam veteran who survived torture as a prisoner of war.
By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News New research shows Alabama’s First Class Pre-K program benefits students over the long term with no signs of “fade out” over time. In a recently-completed study, students who attended First Class Pre-K were significantly more proficient in Math and Reading in the 3rd-7th grades than students who did not. The...
TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — A small airplane made an emergency landing on an Alabama highway in front of shocked drivers. According to WXIA-TV , Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Rick Breitenfeldt says the flight originated from Talladega Municipal Airport and made the emergency landing nearby on Interstate 20 on Saturday afternoon. The FAA says the single-engine...
By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Dialy News At a press conference on Thursday, State Superintendent Eric Mackey and Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange announced that Montgomery will soon open the area’s first charter schools and the state’s first conversion charter school system. Charter schools are public schools that use specially-approved rules outside of federal and state regulations...