Updated: 11:29 PM Before you head out on your boat, it's important to remember some tips to keep everyone on board safe.

Posted: 12:19 PM The pharmacy at NAS Meridian will be closing for several days in May.

Posted: 9:58 AM Officials say the state of Alabama is on track for an early shrimping season this year because of the unseasonably warm weather.

Updated: 1:54 AM An official grand opening ceremony was held on Sunday for a new West Alabama hospital.

Updated: 12:55 AM A year ago, the area experienced one of the largest ever tornado outbreaks.

Posted: 10:33 AM A bill to streamline the way businesses file state and local taxes in Alabama is on its way to the governor's desk.

Updated: 11:38 PM Willow Trace chooses Viola Thomas as its representative to the Alabama Nursing Home Association Pageant.

Updated: 10:56 AM Two Democratic runoffs were decided this week in Choctaw County, Ala.

Updated: 12:37 PM A west Alabama teenager has died from injuries suffered in a mishap in the Gulf of Mexico.

Posted: 10:26 AM An Alabama Senate committee has passed changes to the state's immigration law.

Posted: 7:20 PM The chairman of the Alabama House panel in charge of the state's general fund budget says a proposed $1 per pack cigarette tax would likely have to be reduced to make it out of committee.

Updated: 12:05 AM An investigation is being launched into alleged voting irregularities in Sumter County.

Updated: 10:26 AM The Alabama Senate has passed a bill to prohibit any insurance plan offered through a health insurance exchange in the state from offering coverage for elective abortions.

Posted: 2:26 PM The U.S. Department of Justice says the first criminal charges in the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been filed.

Updated: 1:22 AM Hundreds of local volunteers are needed for a national cancer study.

Updated: 10:50 AM A lawyer for Joran van der Sloot says Peru is evaluating a request by the United States to extradite the convicted killer, who is still the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba.

Updated: 12:20 AM Some York city officials say the biggest problem among leaders in the community is division.

Posted: 3:41 PM Tuition will be increasing for students at Auburn University this fall.

Posted: 3:29 PM Events are being planned across the state of Alabama to remember the tornadoes that devastated many parts of the state on April 27, 2011.

Updated: 3:01 PM Sumter County Sheriff Tyrone Clark is asking the public to be on the lookout for suspicious activity

Posted: 6:25 PM Mississippi's jobless rate dropped in March as the labor force shrank. Alabama's unemployment rate was down for the 8th month in a row.

Updated: 10:39 AM The Alabama House has passed a bill that makes changes to the state's immigration law.

Updated: 12:22 AM The city of York, Ala., has some brand new money problems that now involve the Internal Revenue Service.

Posted: 3:41 PM The University of West Alabama recently bestowed its highest honor on three alumni.

Posted: 11:02 AM An Alabama legislator has renewed his efforts to pass a constitutional amendment to allow copies of the Ten Commandment to be posted on walls in state buildings, including schools.