Crenshaw County students will get new opportunities next school year. The board of education is working with auto suppliers to create a Career Technical Center.

In other news, Alabama's Pre-K program is again named one of the top in the nation. And on the heels of that, Governor Bentley released details of 100 new grants to expand Pre-K programs across the state.

Two north Alabama men are free on bond after being arrested on charges of cheating at a bass fishing tournament.

Alabama News Network is on the scene of a shooting that took place around 11:45am.

Authorities say Chastity Ballinger is charged with Abuse-of-a-Corpse -- and more serious allegations could be on the way pending the result of an autopsy.

An Alabama Department of Corrections officer is arrested on drug trafficking charges.

The investigation into possible government corruption continues...a special Lee County grand jury is scheduled to meet again today.

Former Stanhope Elmore high school coach Jeffrey Stanton has entered a plea.

From the West Alabama Newsroom -- Nearly four years after a Selma man is murdered only a few feet from his own front door -- there's been arrest and the case still remains unsolved.

Prosecutors want a man sentenced to death after his conviction of killing a woman at a community college.

Dozens of gay couples are getting marriage licenses in Arkansas after a judge said the state's gay marriage ban was unconstitutional. Alabama has similar laws when it comes gay marriage, so could a judge force Alabama be the next state to follow?