Updated: 11:23 AM A group of volunteers is biking across the country to draw attention to the issue of poverty and housing needs in America.

Updated: 11:43 PM Republican leaders from 10 Southern states are meeting to plan strategies for making new GOP inroads across the region.

Posted: 10:16 AM Many Alabama state employees are going to get their first raises in five years.

Updated: 10:10 AM An investigation is underway into an accident that caused the deaths of three people in southwest Alabama.

Posted: 10:24 AM Environmental advocates and others are questioning the decision to quit using crews to look for tar balls left by the BP oil spill.

Updated: 11:51 PM Two people from Naval Air Station Meridian died in a 2-vehicle crash Sunday morning. Three others were injured.

Updated: 11:21 AM Tuition is going up for the sixth straight year for the three-campus University of Alabama system.

Updated: 11:14 PM The Southern Baptist Convention tackled topics at its annual meeting this week including a broad array of social issues.

Updated: 11:15 PM The Southern Baptist Convention has passed a resolution calling on all Southern Baptists to report allegations of child abuse to authorities.

Updated: 11:14 PM The Southern Baptist Convention has approved a resolution opposing the Boy Scouts of America's new policy allowing gay Scouts.

Posted: 10:26 AM The head of the Retirement Systems of Alabama blasted Alabama's governor for declining to expand Medicaid.

Updated: 10:31 AM BP says cleanup work is ending in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

Posted: 10:26 AM The University of Alabama is commemorating integration that took place there 50 years ago.

Posted: 2:37 PM State laws varied on gun, abortion laws.

Updated: 5:27 PM A fifth arrest has been made in a counterfeit check ring in Demopolis, Alabama.

Updated: 5:27 PM A West Alabama man is being charged with stabbing another man in the back.

Updated: 6:16 PM Three more people have been charged in connection with the kidnapping of Jashayla Hopson in Kemper County, including Univ. of Alabama basketball player Devonta Pollard.

Posted: 11:05 AM Four arrests have been made in a counterfeit check ring in Demopolis.

Posted: 4:06 PM Former Birmingham mayor from prison: `I'm dying.'

Posted: 3:59 PM Alabama Democratic Party delays election of new chair.

Updated: 7:21 PM Feds crack down on foreclosure auction scams.

Posted: 3:10 PM Alabama hurricane planners up against fading memories.

Posted: 11:41 AM Two BP rig supervisors charged in the deaths of 11 workers in the Deepwater Horizon disaster claim the manslaughter counts in their indictment must be dismissed.

Updated: 10:45 AM U.S. Attorney's Office officials say four people, including one from Alabama, have pleaded guilty to their involvement in an identity theft and tax fraud ring.

Posted: 4:41 PM Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions visited Franklin Primary Health Center in Gilbertown to talk about health care.