A University of Alabama sorority recruitment video was slammed as being “racially homogenous” and objectifying to women because it features a number of attractive, thin white girls. The video shows a group of mostly white women partying and dancing to promote Alpha Phi, who are based at the Tuscaloosa campus. However, the clip set off a firestorm of criticism, with AL.com writer A.L. Bailey... 

Apple ‘Ultimate General: Gettysburg’ from its AppStore Apple has yanked all applications that contain the Confederate flag from its AppStore, following the lead of other major retailers. However, it removed historically accurate Civil War games alongside apps that promoted potentially offensive themes. The removal of the apps was in reaction to the Charleston, South Carolina shooting last... 

According to AP, Texas is leading a 17-state coalition in suing over the Obama administration’s recently announced executive actions on immigration. A year ago, following the whole Supreme Court farce, a bevy of states proved there are more than just “idiot voters” left in the US, when they decided to sue Obamacare outright over one or more of its provisions. They were promptly shut down... 

A record 2.5 million children were homeless across the US in 2013, a new report says. A new report says a record 2.5 million children, nearly one child in every 30, were homeless across the United States in 2013. The report issued by the National Center on Family Homelessness on Monday showed an 8 percent increase in homeless children compared to 2012. “When you look at the resources and where they’ve... 

The Republican congressman for Alabama, Mo Brooks, said in a radio interview last week that there is a war on White people, which is being waged by the Democratic party, reported Huffingtonpost.com. “This is a part of the war on whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else.” “It’s part... 

​An Alabama man says doctors mistakenly removed his penis during what was supposed to be a routine circumcision procedure, and now he has filed suit against the physicians and hospitals involved. According to the lawsuit filed on Tuesday this week in state court, Johnny Lee Banks Jr. emerged from what should have been a standard circumcision surgery at Princeton Baptist Medical Center last month... 

Several vehicles fell about 40 feet after a portion of the Scenic Highway collapsed on April 30 in Pensacola, Florida. The worst floods in decades in the US states of Florida and Alabama have left at least one person dead and brought destruction across the South. The victim is an elderly woman who drowned Tuesday after high waters submerged her car on a highway, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The... 

Much of northern Mississippi remained on tornado watch Monday afternoon after a twister made its way through Tupelo, according to a National Weather Service report. Major damage has been reported, although the number of casualties is still unknown. Parts of Alabama, Arkansas, and western Georgia were also placed under tornado watch until Monday night as the storm system slowly traveled north from... 

The surveillance aircraft the University of Alabama in Huntsville plans to use to monitor campus. Officials at the University of Alabama in Huntsville unveil a new plan to use remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles to provide an “eye in the sky” for police to monitor students on campus. The plan was divulged at a press conference at the university on May 8. Gary Maddux, the lead research... 

A series of seven large blasts on a fuel barge in Mobile, Alabama, rocked the area Wednesday night, critically injuring three. An evacuation zone was set up after firefighters were unable to put out the blaze, which they hope will burn out overnight. The first blast occurred on a natural gas barge on the east side of the Mobile River at around 8:30pm local time, and was followed shortly afterwards... 

The annual Quadrantid meteor shower of 2013 is to reach its peak at the night sky of the early morning on Thursday, January 3, only for few hours. According to NASA scientists, skywatchers can expect to see the display of 60 to 200 meteors an hour streak across the dark sky after the moon sets. “Those who brave the cold might see up to 40 meteors per hour, although moonlight will make faint... 

A resident in Greenfield, Massachusetts clears snow off his car, December 27, 2012. A powerful winter storm has pounded the US northeast, bringing heavy snow and strong winds across several states and killing several people. The storm, which has claimed some 16 lives so far, hit the northeast on Thursday after it wreaked havoc on a region stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes. The tempest... 

An explosion at a BP oil rig resulted in a devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. A US federal judge has approved a USD 7.8 billion settlement which sees the BP oil giant pay out USD 7.8 billion in compensation to people and businesses affected by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. US District Judge Carl Barbier gave his final verdict on Friday. The ruling covers nearly 100,000... 

Utah’s Mormon leaders, who in recent months have emerged as a force in immigration, say undocumented immigrants should be given a way to work legally in the United States. In a statement on immigration released by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the leaders assail mass deportation, and depict immigration as a moral and religious matter. “What to do with the estimated 12 million... 

Alabama's Governor Robert Bentley Alabama’s governor has signed the nation’s toughest new immigration law in a major crackdown on illegals. The new law affects education, housing and employment. It requires public schools to document students’ immigration status and even makes it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride. The bill also means police can arrest anyone...