Updated: 06/19/2013 - A group of volunteers is biking across the country to draw attention to the issue of poverty and housing needs in America.

Posted: 06/18/2013 - Republican leaders from 10 Southern states are meeting to plan strategies for making new GOP inroads across the region.

Posted: 06/18/2013 - Many Alabama state employees are going to get their first raises in five years.

Updated: 06/18/2013 - An investigation is underway into an accident that caused the deaths of three people in southwest Alabama.

Posted: 06/17/2013 - Environmental advocates and others are questioning the decision to quit using crews to look for tar balls left by the BP oil spill.

Updated: 06/17/2013 - Two people from Naval Air Station Meridian died in a 2-vehicle crash Sunday morning. Three others were injured.

Updated: 06/14/2013 - Tuition is going up for the sixth straight year for the three-campus University of Alabama system.

Posted: 06/13/2013 - The Southern Baptist Convention tackled topics at its annual meeting this week including a broad array of social issues.

Posted: 06/12/2013 - The Southern Baptist Convention has passed a resolution calling on all Southern Baptists to report allegations of child abuse to authorities.

Updated: 06/12/2013 - The Southern Baptist Convention has approved a resolution opposing the Boy Scouts of America's new policy allowing gay Scouts.

Posted: 06/12/2013 - The head of the Retirement Systems of Alabama blasted Alabama's governor for declining to expand Medicaid.

Posted: 06/11/2013 - BP says cleanup work is ending in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

Posted: 06/11/2013 - The University of Alabama is commemorating integration that took place there 50 years ago.

Posted: 06/08/2013 - State laws varied on gun, abortion laws.

Updated: 06/05/2013 - A fifth arrest has been made in a counterfeit check ring in Demopolis, Alabama.