The nation is marking the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

A Montgomery family is grieving the unexpected death of 15-year-old Kaleb Hill, an incoming high school freshman who collapsed from a fatal heart attack just days after receiving a routine sports physical.

Alabama has scheduled a September execution with nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a gas station attendant during a 1997 robbery.

Houston returns to a more summer-like pattern with isolated pop-up showers and storms each day. These showers and storms will not wash out any of your outdoor plans.

Hail, flooding and damaging winds possible Tuesday

Tornado watch in effect until 4pm Tuesday

The Storm Prediction Center upgraded our severe threat for Friday afternoon into Saturday morning as storms are likely to fire up as we kick off the weekend.

Authorities in Montgomery, Texas, are searching for siblings Brynnlee Marie Carpenter, 16, and Brody Ray Carpenter, 14, who were last seen at their father's home on April 7, 2025.

Alabama legislators unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would expedite access to Medicaid for pregnant women.

Numerous severe thunderstorms possible Saturday

Wind Advisory as southerly winds gust over 30 MPH Wednesday

Residents of Montgomery and San Jacinto Counties, as wildfires continue to burn, it's crucial to be aware of the potential health impacts of wildfire smoke.

As fire crews are using all necessary resources to battle a wildfire in Montgomery and San Jacinto counties, the Houston Fire Department is combating a wildfire in north Houston on Friday.

The information was provided in an Thursday update as crews continue to battle the fire, which currently has burned 2,360 acres and is 20 percent contained.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved the state’s request for a Fire Management Assistance Grant for the Pauline Road Fire in San Jacinto and Montgomery counties.

The evacuations come as firefighters continue to battle the Pauline Road Fire. The fire which broke out Wednesday afternoon has currently burned 1,300 acres and is 10 percent contained.

Texas’ population growth has slowed, but the state’s major urban areas are still adding hundreds of thousands of residents.

Essays and early short stories by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee will be published this fall.

Fans are remembering R&B singer Angie Stone after her death at 63 in a weekend crash on a highway in Alabama while returning from a performance.

Attorneys for an Alabama inmate facing execution by nitrogen gas are asking a federal judge to block the upcoming execution.

Have you ever had an Amazon package go missing, never to show up at your front door? Well, there might be an answer as to what happened to that box.

The Boston Bruins have fired coach Jim Montgomery after losing 12 of their first 20 games.

A federal appeals court says it will let the nation's third execution with nitrogen gas go forward this week.

A shooting during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama has left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire.

A person familiar with the decisions tells The Associated Press.

A federal judge is halting an Alabama program that made thousands of legal voters inactive ahead of the November elections.

Montgomery ISD announced changes to the district’s cell phone policy following a board workshop.

A small museum in Nashville is returning 255 pre-Columbian artifacts to Mexico.

The Equal Justice Initiative nonprofit invoked the Juneteenth holiday as it dedicated a monument that honors the people who endured and survived slavery.

An Associated Press analysis of licensing data from 44 states, data from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs and the American Community Survey shows residents of neighborhoods that are majority Black and Latino have fewer pharmacies per capita than people who live in mostly white neighborhoods.

A New Hampshire man convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter and moving her corpse around for months before disposing of it has been sentenced to a minimum of 56 years in prison on murder and other charges.

While most of us are locked into solar eclipse and whether we can see it through the clouds on Monday, as the day progresses we will see an increasing chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some of these storms may become strong to severe.

How to watch the 2024 U.S. Canoe Slalom Olympic Team Trials take place this weekend in Montgomery, Alabama.

Left-hander Jordan Montgomery and the Arizona Diamondbacks have finalized their $25 million, one-year deal.

The history of slavery in America is the focus of a new sculpture park in Montgomery, Alabama.

A Montgomery woman shot and killed a man who allegedly kidnapped her.

At least one fertility clinic in Alabama has resumed in vitro fertilization treatments.

A large Alabama hospital has paused in vitro fertilization treatments as health care providers weigh the impact of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of children.

A jury has begun deliberations in the case of a New Hampshire man charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old daughter.

Alabama lawmakers are advancing legislation that would define who is considered female and male under state law.

Montgomery Grandmother, Nikki Cherry, suffered through chronic upper back pain for nearly 40 years before finding relief with help from the team at AK Pain & Spine Center.

A New Hampshire man accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter told a judge that his attorneys plan to acknowledge his guilt on two lesser charges — falsifying physical evidence and abusing a corpse.

The National Weather Service Office - Houston/Galveston issued a Flood Warning for Peach Creek at Splendora, affecting Montgomery and Harris Counties.

Houston unites in commemoration: A vibrant array of events to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s enduring legacy

The bus Rosa Parks made history on is at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn Michigan

A man has been arrested and charged with stealing packages from several residences in Montgomery, Montgomery Sheriff’s Office West Precinct District 5 deputies announced Monday.

No injuries were reported after a building caught on fire and was engulfed in flames in Montgomery, Texas on Tuesday.

David Montgomery rushed for 121 yards and three touchdowns, and the Detroit Lions asserted themselves as the team to beat in the NFC North, beating the Green Bay Packers 34-20.

For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside a brain-dead man.

Alabama has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional lines in place as the state continues to fight a directive to create a second district where Black voters constitute a majority or close to it.

The Detroit Lions rallied for a 21-20 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs to ruin the Super Bowl champions' celebration on the NFL's opening night.

A sister’s choice to donate her brother’s body for research is helping doctors learn how to one day use pig organs to save human lives.

A panel of federal judges on Monday began a review Alabama’s redrawn congressional map which opponents argue blatantly defies the court’s mandate to create a second district where Black voters have an opportunity to influence the outcome of an election.

Bystanders who trained their smartphone cameras on an Alabama riverfront dock, as several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity.

An Alabama boat co-captain says he was hanging on “for dear life” when he was attacked by men on the capital city’s riverfront.

So this is what the riverfront in Montgomery, Alabama when there isn’t a massive fight going down!

In his written deposition to Montgomery police, filed hours after he was attacked at the city’s riverfront last weekend, dock worker Damien Pickett said he “hung on for dear life” as he was pummeled by a group of white boaters who disregarded his requests to move their boat so a dinner cruise vessel could dock.

Police in Alabama arrested two boaters on misdemeanor assault charges in connection with a riverside brawl that drew national attention.

Two suspects facing misdemeanor assault charges after a group of white men attacked a Black dockworker in a brawl on the Montgomery riverfront surrendered to police Wednesday, authorities said.

One man has surrendered and arrest warrants were issued for two others after a massive brawl that stemmed from a worker being attacked at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama Saturday.

Several people were put in handcuffs after a massive brawl that stemmed from a worker being attacked at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama Saturday.

Multiple video clips of a brawl on the riverfront in Montgomery, Alabama, went viral on social media Sunday night, and the mayor reacted with a vow that justice would prevail.

Health care providers in Alabama have filed lawsuits against state Attorney General Steve Marshall over threats to prosecute people who help women arrange abortions outside the state.

Civil rights groups urged three federal judges to reject Alabama’s newly drawn congressional districts, saying state Republicans prioritized partisan concerns over compliance with a court order to draw lines that are fair to Black voters.

More than one dozen counties in our area are affected.

Alabama families could soon pay less at the grocery store after lawmakers gave final passage to a landmark bill to gradually remove half of the 4% state sales tax on food by September 2024.

A horse was rescued from rising flood waters in Montgomery Sunday.

The Black College World Series played this week in Alabama hopes to spur pro careers amid declining numbers of U.S.-born Black players in the major leagues.

Severe weather & street flooding is possible

A former star of a St. Louis-based reality show has been sentenced to life in prison for arranging the killing of his nephew to collect a life insurance policy.

Strong winds with rain this afternoon

Officials in Harris County have closed several roads in the Greater Houston area after reports of high water.

Alabama has changed death penalty procedures to give the prison system longer to carry out executions — a move that comes after a string of troubled lethal injections in the state — and also eliminated an automatic review for trial errors.

Parades and celebrations will be held over the weekend and on Monday to honor the 93rd birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who was just 39 when he was assassinated in 1968 while helping sanitation workers strike for better pay and workplace safety in Memphis, Tennessee.

A member of an airline ground crew working at an Alabama airport died Saturday afternoon in an accident at the facility.

A search is underway for a 79-year-old man who was last seen in Montgomery on Thanksgiving Day, deputies with Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said.

A surveillance photo was released of a woman suspected in multiple car burglaries at the Stampede Sportsplex in Montgomery County on Nov. 5, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The prize-winning documentary, “Descendant,” tells the story of the last known slave ship to America and the descendants of the 110 people aboard.

David Pastrnak had a goal and three assists to help the Boston Bruins beat the Washington Capitals 5-2 in each team's season opener.

HOUSTON - There is a new No. 1 in this week’s VYPE Houston Class 5A football Top 10.

Congressional districts that a federal court panel said were unconstitutional because they dilute representation for Black voters in Alabama are nevertheless being used for the November election after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed them.

Tazon Conley threw for a touchdown and ran for two scores and Prairie View A&M never never trailed as it beat Alabama St. 25-15.

This is a mesh of a few different districts coming together from the past few years. Montgomery is coming off a great season, while Huntsville, Lake Creek and Brenham are trying to have bounce-back seasons in 2022.

Police are trying to determine a motive in three seemingly random shootings along an interstate highway in Alabama and Georgia that left a motorist critically wounded.

An investigation is underway after a body was found partially buried in sand pits in Montgomery Tuesday, deputies said.

Welcome to the 2022 Texas high school volleyball season!

The Boston Bruins have hired Jim Montgomery as their new coach.

Extreme heat is expected for Harris County on the Juneteenth holiday.

One teen’s hard work and dedication is now turning into a booming business.

Alabama’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate is going to a June runoff between Katie Britt and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks.

A new section of the Grand Parkway will open on Thursday morning.

Gleyber Torres homered early, then hit a go-ahead single in the ninth inning as the New York Yankees won their 10th straight game, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2.

An all clear was given at Lone Star College in Montgomery after a report of a man armed with a gun on campus.

Alabama lawmakers have approved sweeping legislation that would outlaw transgender youth's access to gender-affirming medications.

During a commemoration of the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Elliott Smith's great-aunt pushed him across the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in a stroller.

Welcome to the 2022 baseball season.

The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down in Montgomery late Saturday night.

Authorities searched the last known residence of Harmony Montgomery to investigate the disappearance of the New Hampshire girl.

Darren Grainger passed for 203 yards and three touchdowns and ran for 122 yards and a fourth score to lead Georgia State to a 51-20 victory over Ball State in the Camellia Bowl on Saturday.

Alabama's governor is honoring the state's first Black poet laureate, a creative writing teacher from Birmingham who delves into the pain and difficulty of being Black in America.