Updated: 11:19 AM A new survey of Alabama teachers finds that a majority of them support having armed security officers in their schools.

Updated: 7:40 PM The Lauderdale County Board of Supervisors have approved a $14 million bond issue.

Updated: 12:33 AM Local political party officials are calling all voters to make their voices heard in the municipal elections.

Updated: 3:33 PM U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel spent Easter in Meridian with his wife's family.

Posted: 11:07 PM The Alabama Legislature begins the second half of its 2013 session Tuesday.

Updated: 10:51 PM Mississippi lawmakers were working Sunday to send bills for the $5.5 billion budget to Gov. Phil Bryant.

Posted: 6:55 PM With the primaries only a little more than a month away, candidates for office are trying to reach voters.

Updated: 11:39 PM Lauderdale County officials are looking at ways to save money when it comes to making phone calls.

Posted: 11:02 PM Coalitions are urging lawmakers not to pass a bill to put more armed officers in and around schools.

Updated: 7:05 PM Mississippi flags to be lowered honoring Rep. Upshaw.

Updated: 11:39 AM BancorpSouth is setting aside a $500 million loan fund aimed at Mississippi businesses, saying it will work with state officials to find qualified borrowers.

Posted: 7:12 PM More than 200 health advocates, doctors and others rallied at the Mississippi Capitol Wednesday, asking legislators to expand Medicaid to the working poor.

Posted: 7:08 PM Some Mississippi House members shifted their positions on a bill that would provide for charter school expansion in the state, allowing it to move forward Wednesday.

Updated: 7:12 PM Mississippi lawmakers say they're getting closer to agreeing on details of a budget for fiscal year 2014.

Updated: 11:03 PM Mayoral candidate Randle Jennings has been disqualified by the Lauderdale County Democratic Party.

Updated: 7:28 PM A group of pastors Tuesday declared their support for the re-election of Meridian's mayor.

Updated: 12:33 PM Mississippi House members don't want to proceed with a bill including a charter schools expansion favored by the Senate.

Updated: 7:00 PM Mississippi Rep. Bennett Malone was in surgery Monday for a pelvic aneurysm.

Posted: 6:55 PM The former lawmaker who was with state Rep. Jessica Upshaw before she died in an apparent suicide says she had struggled for years with depression.

Updated: 7:05 PM Alabama's Seventh District congresswoman says she's taking inventory of what's on the mind of her constituents.

Posted: 12:26 PM A leading proponent of charter schools may be joining the Mississippi Board of Education.

Updated: 2:09 PM Governor Phil Bryant says Jessica Upshaw's death is a loss for the entire state.

Updated: 2:09 PM Police investigate death of Mississippi state legislator.

Posted: 4:08 PM Alabama Legislature to take on revamp of Medicaid.

Updated: 11:24 PM Rod Amos says he will target youth in the city's fight against crime, if he is elected mayor.