The result of the City Council's vote was unanimous — 5-0 to buy new band uniforms for Anniston High School — because who would be so heartless to veto band uniforms for Anniston High? Yet still, there was a problem in River City.
Anniston officials are already rethinking their plan for a Dec. 8 Christmas parade as COVID-19 surges, City Manager Steven Folks said Monday, as the virus remains one of the city’s top concerns.
U.S. Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville spoke this week about what Senate committees he’d like to serve on, and the importance of working across the aisle.
At her first official Jacksonville City Council meeting Monday night, Sherry Laster said she was proud to see Harris’ victory.
Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday pardoned a couple of turkeys in a Thanksgiving tradition that goes back more than 70 years. But after an election that has been anything but traditional, talk quickly turned to politics.
The chair of the Calhoun County Democratic Party said the number of local Democrats has recently grown “in leaps and bounds,” and Biden’s victory will likely increase that growth.
"It’s time for America to unite. And to heal," President-elect Biden said in a statement. President Trump has not conceded the race and plans to continue legal challenges to the results.
Here’s the quixotic trivia question I can’t answer: Has there been a vice-mayor in Anniston’s past who was younger than Smith?
Trump has already claimed that he won, claimed that counting his opponent's votes involves fraudulent activity, but neither claim is true.
Voter participation reached historic highs in Alabama for Tuesday’s presidential election, according to state officials.
Results in battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, will determine the president for the next four years.
Hodges got 37,448 votes in his run for the office, which oversees property tax assessment and collection.
Calhoun County voters approved a local constitutional amendment Tuesday that will allow the Elks Lodge bingo game in Anniston to go on — legally.
A television image projected onto a large inflated outdoor screen continually updated the various races across the country.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, has won another term representing Alabama’s Third Congressional District, according to the Associated Press.
Former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville has won the race for one of Alabama’s seats in the U.S. Senate, unseating incumbent Sen. Doug Jones, D-Birmingham, according to the Associated Press.
The fate of the election rests on a couple of million uncounted ballots in a handful of states, including Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia.
Local emergency officials are again urging people to wear masks and observe social distancing rules as people across the country flock to the polls today.
Lines were long at several Calhoun County polling places on a historic Election Day when officials were expecting record turnout for federal and state elections, with potentially as many as 75 percent of registered voters casting a ballot.
Power has already been restored to most polling places, and plans are in place to supply supplemental power if needed, an EMA official said.
Jones has been traveling across the state in recent days as time ticks down toward his matchup with Tuberville, the former Auburn football coach who holds the lead in the polls.
With 89.4 percent of its votes going to Trump, the box at Oak Grove was the Trumpiest polling place in Calhoun County in 2016, followed closely by nearby Webster’s Chapel Fire Department, with 88.7 percent.
On Nov. 3, voters in Alabama’s Third Congressional District will decide whether to send Mike Rogers back to Washington or to choose his Democratic opponent, Talladega psychologist Adia McClellan Winfrey.
On Nov. 3, voters in Alabama’s Third Congressional District will decide whether to send Mike Rogers back to Washington or to choose his Democratic opponent, Talladega psychologist Adia McClellan Winfrey.
Absentee voting opened in late September, with a deadline of Oct. 29 to apply for an absentee ballot. Demand has increased over the last week.
