Tropical Storm Nestor forms, threatening US Gulf Coast

Tropical Storm Nestor formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, threatening the northern Gulf Coast with rising seawater, high winds and heavy rains.

Search for abducted 3-year-old Alabama girl enters day 5

Police in Birmingham spent day five of the search for abducted 3-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney searching the housing complex from where she was taken Saturday while attending a birthday party.

Alabama officer shot and killed in line of duty, suspect arrested

Authorities say a Tuscaloosa police officer has died and the wanted felon he was pursuing is in custody after a shootout.

6 teens shot at high school football game in Alabama

Authorities say at least six people were shot during a high school football game in Alabama.

Police: 3-year-old Alabama boy starved to death; brother survived

An Alabama couple who police said didn't believe in doctors could face life in prison if convicted of aggravated child abuse in the starvation death of their 3-year-old boy.

100 'Ladies in Red' cross historic bridge in Selma, Alabama on civil rights tour

More than 100 African-American Bay Area women stood on the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Monday, bracing the wind, rain and lightning in a literal and symbolic milestone highlighting their emotional civil rights tour that kicked off from Oakland.