Posted: 12:09 PM Alabama education officials say they will ask the U.S. Department of Education to give the state a waiver on No Child Left Behind goals.

Updated: 4:02 PM The University of West Alabama has closed for the day due to weather knocking out power.

Updated: 7:04 PM Hundreds of people in this area will join thousands of people nationwide Wednesday in supporting a restaurant in the midst of a controversy.

Posted: 11:54 AM Alabama's tax-free weekend for back-to-school supplies is Friday through Sunday.

Updated: 11:27 PM Although the state of Alabama is reporting an overall increase in the number of people seeking food assistance, at least one west Alabama county is experiencing a decline.

Updated: 11:27 AM Alabama bans texting while driving August 1st.

Updated: 9:56 PM How could an earthquake hit Lauderdale county? Believe it or not, it isn't completely abnormal. Here's why...

Updated: 10:47 AM A man died in a two-vehicle crash in Boligee.

Posted: 4:10 PM State troopers are investigating a crash in Marengo County that claimed two lives.

Posted: 3:26 PM State-of-the-art equipment for containing deep-sea oil spills is being tested.

Updated: 11:41 AM A west Alabama woman has won an out-of-the-ordinary statewide pageant.

Updated: 10:14 PM New details are being released by law enforcement in the Anniston area after two shootings there Monday morning

Updated: 10:15 PM After three weeks without running water, an elderly couple in west Alabama now has it.

Updated: 10:18 PM A West Alabama police department is tickled pink these days!

Updated: 10:22 PM Corn crop hit hard as much of Alabama in drought.

Updated: 10:27 PM Navy veteran, 2 service members among those killed in shooting.

Updated: 10:32 PM Officials in Mississippi are taking a second look at certain security measures in light of the mass shooting in Colorado Friday

Updated: 10:33 PM The unemployment rate in Mississippi and Alabama rose in June, amid signs of a stalling economy.

Updated: 10:39 PM An elderly couple in west Alabama, who has been without water for three weeks, wants some answers.

Posted: 10:49 AM Seventeen people injured in a nightclub shooting in Tuscaloosa are reportedly improving.

Updated: 10:15 AM One of three men who pleaded guilty to arson in a series of 2006 rural Alabama church fires has been granted an early release from prison.

Updated: 11:13 PM Sumter County authorities are soliciting information to help solve a church burglary.

Posted: 10:38 AM Officials say a trial run for a sales tax holiday for the purchase of 'severe weather supplies' went pretty well.

Posted: 8:43 PM Prices at the pump are slowly rising in Mississippi and Alabama.

Posted: 7:12 PM Former judge: Prison time likely for casino boss.