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A Mobile County clerk helps a Mobile man at the Mobile County License Commission office in this February 2010 photo.

"Dianne and I are offering prayers of support for everyone in Oklahoma. The people of Alabama can identify first-hand with those who have suffered such a devastating loss.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - AL.com reporter Chuck Dean talks about the happenings in the Alabama Legislature on the last day of the regular session Monday, May 20, 2013, at the Alabama State House.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Governor Robert Bentley this afternoon said that members of the House of Representatives "made a mistake" by rejecting his suggestion to delay private school tax credits by two years.

When the session began in February, Democratic legislators said their No. 1 goal was expanding Alabama's Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act.

Alabama will have an Accountability Act in place Tuesday morning, it's just a matter of which version.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Legislators return Monday for a jam-packed final day of the legislative session with key votes looming on campaign finance, state borrowing, guns in workplace parking lots and the drug testing of welfare recipients.

Senator to Bentley: "I will not sit by and passively allow... children being subjected to a less than stellar education" BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Gov.

April's rate represents 150,503 unemployed persons, compared to 155,011 last month and 158,749 in April 2012.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The Alabama Department of Transportation's project to modify traffic flow along U.S. 280 in Jefferson and Shelby counties begins Sunday night -- weather permitting.

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley recently declared May as Lyme Disease Awareness Month, but a diagnosis can be hard to come by in the state.

MOBILE, Alabama - The Mobile County Judicial Commission this afternoon announced two more applicants for a soon-to-be vacant judgeship, bring the total number to 25.

We've got a plate full already. I just don't want it to disrupt our game plan." -- Sen.

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signs legislation that establishes a framework for posthumous pardons in the case of the Scottsboro Boys at the Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center in Scottsboro, Ala.

Governor Robert Bentley said Wednesday he wants a two-year delay on the private school tax credits established by the Alabama Accountability Act.

Unlike Alabama, which is dragging its feet at every step, Oregon has been proactive in efforts to set up the online health insurance exchange contemplated by the Affordable Care Act.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama --- Sen. Dick Brewbaker of Pike Road said he and his Republicans colleagues will probably be divided on whether to accept Gov.

Former Tucker Precinct Commander Brian Harris is set to lead a division of the Alabama Army National Guard after receiving a promotion to the rank of Brigadier General.

"The people of the state do believe that public money should go to public education, and I believe that," Bentley said.

Gov. Robert Bentley will deliver the 2013 Alabama update at noon May 22 at Von Braun Center North Hall in Huntsville, according to the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County.