Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, the Christmas shopping season is officially underway. For many, Christmas shopping already has been underway in earnest for weeks.

As most of us settle down to celebrate Thanksgiving, we recall the stories we’ve heard since early childhood about the first Thanksgiving taking place in 1621, when the Plymouth colonists celebrated their first harvest of crops and a year of survival.

The governing board of the nation’s first educational television network has decided it will not be the first network to disaffiliate from the Public Broadcasting System.

Excerpts from a speech by President John F. Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day, 1961:

The state of Alabama is heading to court, and it’s all the president’s fault.

This is the time for space aliens and witches, ghosts and movie characters, and princesses alongside padded cloth pumpkins with two feet.

Flu season is upon us, which means it’s time to get this year’s flu vaccine.

Just weeks away from what would have been Decatur’s fourth annual Dia de Los Muertos — a local celebration of Mexico’s Day of the Dead — the event organizers have called it off, citing safety concerns.

In the age of Donald Trump, a lot of Republicans seem to have changed their tune when it comes to the government owning what Karl Marx termed “the means of production.”

A breast cancer diagnosis doesn’t affect just the patient. It causes sorrow and fear for all the people who know the mother, grandmother, sister or wife confronting the disease.

U.S. Rep. Dale Strong came out of hiding Thursday, but he still wasn’t ready to give his constituents straight answers.

Hunter Allen, the newly installed director of Decatur Parks and Recreation, wasted no time in changing his department’s course.

After hanging in limbo for more than four years, U.S. Space Command is finally coming to Alabama.

Let us not forget.