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Shooting at Alabama teen’s birthday party leaves 4 dead, ‘multitude of injuries’

By Jeff Amy, Kim Chandler, Associated Press

A high school senior who planned to play college football was celebrating at his sister's 16th birthday party Saturday night in Alabama when gunfire killed him and three other people and wounded several others.

At least 26 dead after tornadoes tear across Midwest and South

By Adrian Sainz, Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press

The White House announced Sunday that it would provide federal resources, including financial assistance, to support recovery efforts after President Joe Biden issued a major disaster declaration.

In small towns of Mississippi, tornado death toll feels like losing family

By Robert Bumsted, Associated Press, Michael Goldberg, Associated Press/Report for America

Friends and neighbors say retirees Lonnie and Melissa Pierce lived a quiet life in the Mississippi Delta before a powerful tornado dropped a semi-truck onto their home like a bomb.

How to help residents in need after the deadly Mississippi tornado

By Hannah Grabenstein

From the Red Cross to a Mississippi animal shelter, here's how to help the survivors of this weekend's deadly southern storms.

Alabama basketball freshman star Miller in alleged role for fatal shooting

By Pete Iacobelli, Associated Press

Alabama standout freshman Brandon Miller was in the starting lineup and scored a career-high 41 points in a win over South Carolina.

Tornadoes rattle historic civil rights community of Selma, Alabama

By Aaron Morrison, Associated Press

Thursday’s storm inflicted heavy damage on Selma, cutting a wide path through the downtown area, where brick buildings collapsed, oak trees were uprooted, cars were tossed onto their sides and power lines were left dangling.

Multiple people killed in Alabama as giant storm system slams through South

By Kim Chandler, Jeff Martin, Associated Press

A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South spurred a tornado on Thursday that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma, Alabama, a city etched in the history of the civil rights movement.

Alabama pausing executions after 3rd failed lethal injection

By Jay Reeves, Associated Press

The move came just days after the uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state's second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months.

Katie Britt becomes 1st Republican woman to claim Alabama Senate seat

By Kim Chandler, Associated Press

Britt, 40, cast herself as part of a new generation of conservative leaders and will become one of the Senate’s youngest members. She will be the first Republican woman to hold one of the state’s Senate seats.

Man charged in Alabama church shooting fighting court-ordered mental evaluation

By Associated Press

A man facing a potential death penalty in the killing of three people who were shot at an Alabama church dinner is fighting a court-ordered mental evaluation.