Updated: 11:24 AM Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant Thursday signed a bill requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, but it's unclear whether it will become law.

Updated: 10:49 AM Gov. Robert Bentley says he will sign both state budgets passed by the legislature late Wednesday night and will sign a bill to raise court fees.

Updated: 10:23 AM Kemper County's administrator is calling it quits.

Posted: 4:39 PM Seven demonstrators protesting against Alabama's immigration law were arrested after they tried to block entry to each chamber of the Alabama Legislature Wednesday.

Posted: 4:24 PM The Alabama House and Senate have agreed to let a conference committee work out differences in the General Fund budget.

Posted: 11:33 AM The Alabama Senate is expected to take up a measure to tweak the state's immigration law.

Posted: 10:35 AM Attorney General Jim Hood's office is asking the state Supreme Court to set execution dates for three men next month.

Updated: 7:05 PM A Democratic lawmaker from Meridian commented on Mississippi's new redistricting plan.

Posted: 4:13 PM Some Alabama farmers are cutting back crops, citing crackdown on illegal immigration.

Posted: 3:59 PM Alabama Lt. Governor Ivey to chair state GOP delegates.

Posted: 1:00 PM The Alabama legislature is looking at the possibility of raising court fees.

Updated: 5:51 PM State officials criticize North Carolina's governor and her statements about a public vote there on gay marriage.

Updated: 10:39 AM The Mississippi NAACP is asking federal officials to block the state's new voter ID law.

Posted: 3:20 PM An Alabama House panel has approved a version of the state's education budget that would save teacher jobs.

Posted: 10:47 AM The Alabama House has given final passage to a bill that will allow the state to opt out from providing insurance coverage for abortions under the new federal health care program.

Posted: 5:28 PM Both sides involved in former Alabama governor Don Siegelman's 2006 bribery convictions are trying to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to either hear his appeal or allow a lower court's verdict to stand.

Updated: 8:21 PM Mississippi Action for Progress held a community forum Tuesday to discuss improving services to youth in Lauderdale County.

Posted: 11:58 AM Mississippi utility regulators have fined a California man and associated companies $945,000 for breaking the state's no-call law.

Updated: 10:27 AM The sheriff of Attala County, William Lee, has died at age 59.

Updated: 12:18 AM Some Lauderdale County residents brought their objection about a road project to the board of supervisors Monday.

Updated: 12:17 AM A formal request is being made for the Kemper County Sheriff's Department to be investigated.

Updated: 11:36 PM House Representative and Speaker Pro Tem Greg Snowden takes a look back on the four-month legislative session in Jackson.

Posted: 1:00 PM This year's session shows GOP power is great, but not unlimited.

Updated: 12:21 PM The Alabama Senate has given final approval to a bill that will prohibit protesters from getting within 1,000 feet of funerals for fallen soldiers or other victims.

Updated: 11:06 AM The Mississippi Senate Wednesday adopted its own redistricting plan that includes more majority-black districts and fewer split precincts statewide.