Updated: 8:26 PM A compromise has been struck as the US is set to raise the debt ceiling

Posted: 2:33 PM The deadline to raise the country's debt ceiling is nearing as members of Congress continue to fight to work out a plan

Posted: 9:09 PM Legislators in Washington are still working on a deal to avoid a government default

Updated: 5:41 PM Al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden is dead. Click to see exclusive ABC video of the room where bin Laden was taken.

Updated: 6:46 PM Five candidates are being interviewed this week for the Philadelphia school superintendent post.

Posted: 6:35 PM Gov. Haley Barbour makes appearances in the early primary state of New Hampshire.

Updated: 10:42 PM It was a beautiful spring like day to be outside in East Mississippi.

Posted: 3:20 PM The Mississippi Supreme Court has given the Forrest County Youth Court until Jan. 25 to respond to a Hattiesburg television station's contention that it should be allowed to broadcast video it acquired of alleged abuse at the local juvenile detention center.

Posted: 8:07 PM BP Vice President Steve Robinson says workers on the oil rig that exploded were distracted and did not shut down the well until it was too late.

Updated: 4:27 PM Sixty-nine years after Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, survivors of the attack gather at the base to remember those killed.

Updated: 12:39 PM An oil worker from Mississippi was missing Monday night, after being kidnapped from an oil rig off the African coast.

Posted: 8:57 PM The last of the Chilean miners has been raised from deep beneath the earth. All 33 men have now been delivered from the longest underground entrapment in history.

Updated: 2:37 PM By midday Wednesday, more than half of the miners trapped underground in Chile had been brought rescued.

Updated: 10:16 AM The rescue of miners who were trapped for over two months underground in Chile began Tuesday night.

Updated: 7:29 PM A group at Meridian's Dumont Plaza was among those participating Thursday in National Day of Prayer.

Updated: 11:10 AM The Pentagon says Alabama, Florida and Mississippi have requested the federal mobilization of National Guard troops to aid clean-up efforts along the Gulf Coast.

Updated: 3:12 PM MEMA says damage is reported in several counties in Mississippi. Here is their press release with the information.

Updated: 2:47 PM The National Weather Service reports that some damage resulted from Sunday's storms.

Posted: 2:32 PM At least five people died and hundreds were being evacuated Saturday as heavy rains pounded Tennessee, causing widespread flooding across the state.

Posted: 2:26 PM Six people were killed in Tennessee and three in northern Mississippi by a line of storms that brought heavy flooding and tornados to the region over the weekend.

Posted: 5:45 PM A sheriff says a tornado that ripped through the central Arkansas community of Scotland killed a woman whose home was destroyed.

Posted: 5:42 PM The National Weather Service says a strong storm system spawned three likely tornadoes that touched down Saturday in northeastern Mississippi.

Updated: 11:26 PM The investigation of the death of 7-year-old Somer Thompson in Florida led to Meridian and the arrest of 24-year-old Jarred Harrell Thursday.

Updated: 12:00 PM Toyota Motor Corp. says it will begin telling millions of customers how it will repair their sticky gas pedal systems next week.

Updated: 5:51 PM A Marengo County soldier was among the 29 injured in the Fort Hood, Tex., shooting last week.