Officials at the wiregrass area united way food bank say they think this year’s food drive collections surpass previous years.

Residents in 4 Wiregrass counties will soon have smoother rides. It's part of the rural assistance match program also known as RAMP. Alabama Governor Robert Bentley announced funding for more than 250 road and bridge improvement projects. He hopes this money will help rural counties move forward.

Morris Slingluff Elementary School is going beyond the basics by giving students the opportunity to work with technology.

Foster Fest will run from May until October.

Thursday, May 16, 2013, the two (2) west bound lanes of East Main Street will be closed between Museum Avenue and N. Oates Street.

Governor Robert Bentley on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 231, which will lead to improvements at Gulf State Park, including a lodge and meeting facility that will help attract more visitors.

Florida is getting ready to start selling tickets to the popular Mega Millions game.

Department of Children and Families Secretary David Wilkins announced Tuesday that Florida would become the first state in the country to use new technology to crack down on food stamp and other welfare fraud.

O.J. Simpson is back in a Las Vegas courtroom for day two of a hearing dissecting his former lawyer's work in his 2008 robbery-kidnapping conviction.

U.S. airlines collected more than $6 billion in baggage and reservation change fees from passengers last year -- the highest amount since the fees became common five years ago.

Audio experts differ on whether screams for help captured on 911 calls are those of murder defendant George Zimmerman or of shooting victim 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

The Pentagon is announcing plans today to furlough about 680,000 of its civilian employees for 11 days through the end of this fiscal year.

Prosecutors in the Colorado theater shootings have listed in court documents about 3,500 potential witnesses they could call during the trial of defendant James Holmes.

Transportation safety officials are exploring ways to eliminate drunken driving deaths, which account for about a third of the nation's more than 30,000 annual traffic fatalities -- a share that has remained stubbornly unchanged since the late-1990s.

Residents living on or near McCauley Road in Baker and interested citizens are invited to attend a meeting to discuss the use of a Municipal Service Taxing Unit (MSTU), for private roadway improvements.

New York City prosecutors say a woman has been charged with fraud for posing as the aunt of a Connecticut school shooting victim and soliciting donations.

Senators weighing a landmark immigration bill have defeated an effort by Republicans to require biometric identification -- such as fingerprinting -- to track who is entering and leaving the country.

The Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium is bringing a free Department of Homeland Security-certified course on Emergency Operations Plans for Rural Jurisdictions to Enterprise, Alabama.

Charges at the Dothan City Jail for May 14 include possession of drug paraphernalia, domestic violence, and marijuana possession.

James R. Bramlett's fish weighed in at a whopping 69 pounds.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers say 47-year-old Tracy Jay Tate turned into the path of a Nissan Xterra.

Demolition of the Kilgore House on the University of Alabama campus is scheduled for Tuesday.

The Senate Agriculture Committee is considering its version of the farm bill Tuesday.

Tom Hanks is the most trusted person in America.

Three man have been arrested and charged with stealing 4-wheelers and tools from a home in the Marley Mill Community.