The Commerce Department says retail sales rose .1 percent in April.

A new company is being launched in Birmingham to combat computer-based attacks.

Lawyers for the Colorado theater shooting suspect say he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, but a judge won't rule on whether to allow that yet.

A Dothan woman is charged with domestic violence after she allegedly chased a victim into a grocery store after crashing into their car.

Ian Andrew Hooper faces a grand theft charge after he allegedly stole scrap metal.

More than 250 road and bridges improvement projects will move forward in rural counties, said Governor Robert Bentley.

Investigators are still looking into the sequence of events that led to the shooting death of a Louisiana man.

The Hollywood image of Tonto once had the Lone Ranger's sidekick wearing a thin headband and lots of dangling fringes. The latest Disney version has a shirtless Johnny Depp adorned with feathers, a painted face and a stuffed crow on his head.

A roundup of early morning news from across Alabama for May 13, 2013.

The Republican chairman of the House oversight panel is asking a veteran diplomat and a former chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff for sworn testimony about their investigation into the deaths of four Americans at a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.

Tyric Brown was stabbed to death in April. His mother sits down with WTVY to talk about her painful loss.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans police say 17 people have been wounded in a shooting during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The state of Alabama is refusing to repay $94,000 to the U.S. Forest Service.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- The U.S. Coast Guard says recent fake distress calls to its station in Mobile are wasting time, resources and taxpayer money.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- The University of Alabama is demolishing one of the oldest buildings on campus to make way for a new outdoor plaza.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The Legislature's last day May 20 looks to be long and hectic even though both state budgets have already passed.

Authorities say a north Georgia man who fled police has been found dead in flood waters in Floyd County.

Students at a north Alabama high school are campaigning to change traffic laws after a teenager died in a wreck at what they say is a dangerous intersection.

Florists putting in extra hours for Mother's Day bouquets... Spacewalking astronauts hope new pump stops leak... Brother arrested in fatal Calif. stabbing of girl... Standoff with armed gunman in NJ enters a 3rd day... IRS knew tea party targeted in 2011... GOP's Rand Paul raises profile with eye on 2016... SWAT teams, police continue search for man in killing of his wife, 2 daughters... Kansas crews search for young girl presumed dead after bodies of her mom, 2 men found... One by one, homes in Calif. subdivision sinking... NY man finishes writing out entire Bible by hand... OJ Simpson back in court...

Iran's Rafsanjani registers for presidential race... Death toll in Bangladesh collapse soars past 1,100... Myanmar issues cyclone (hurricane) warning... G-7 commits to shoring up global growth... Syria-linked group blamed in Turkey blasts; 43 die... Syrian rebels cut major desert road... Suicide tanker truck kills 3 people in Iraq... Thousands in Israel protest proposed budget... Geza Vermes, renowned Jesus scholar, dies at 88... Egypt Christian teacher's detention extended... Egypt arrests 3 suspected al-Qaida militants... Jihadist group claims Mali suicide attacks... Former Prime Minister declares victory in historic election based on partial vote count... 27 miners killed in China coal mine blast...

Police: 2 dead in home after Huntsville standoff... Newton hires former military officer as police chief... Mother, daughter graduate together... Former homeless mothers celebrate Mother's Day... Juvenile sea turtle expected to make full recovery... Little Richard's boyhood home to be moved... Ga. officials educating boaters on new alcohol law... Valdosta bank closed by federal regulators...

On May 12, 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered... In 1922, a 20-ton meteor crashed near Blackstone, Va... In 1932, the body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was found in a wooded area near Hopewell, N.J... In 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift... On May 12, 1959, Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher were married in Las Vegas. They divorced after four years...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is praising the nation's police officers for courage and for signing up, in his words, "to do some tough stuff."

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) -- A high school student in northwest Florida has been expelled for starting a rumor that someone was going to shoot people at the school.

The Wiregrass Food Bank collected non-perishable items for Saturday's nationwide Stamp Out Hunger food drive.