A truck driver who threatened to "shoot up" a church in Memphis and said he was haunted by "spiritual snakes and spiders" people put in his bed was arrested in Indiana, less than a week before the day of the planned attacks, authorities said in newly filed court records.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will require new forms— and a new process — for getting married beginning next week.

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — In a story about a toddler who died in a hot car, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the boy was from Georgia. He was from Alabama.

HURLEY, Miss. (AP) — Authorities in Mississippi say a woman shot the boyfriend of her 20-year-old daughter.

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — Strong storms that knocked down trees and limbs left thousands without power in north Alabama.

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man charged with manslaughter in the death of his 2-year-old son has had his bond revoked following a different arrest.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has named 45 Mississippi counties primary natural disaster areas because of freezing, flooding, flash flooding and excessive rain.

CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) — Teams are resuming the search for a woman who's been missing on an Alabama lake since a boating crash on July 4.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A former Alabama governor who resigned amid a sex scandal has opened a new dermatology office.

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama veterinarian is dead following an apparent drowning on Lake Michigan.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Students of an Alabama high school that was gutted by a fire are still stuffing themselves into a repurposed elementary school months later.

SPRINGVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama high school graduate doesn't appear in her yearbook after wearing a tuxedo top for her senior portrait, instead of the black drape female students usually wear.

LINCOLN, Ala. (AP) — A pilot has escaped a plane crash in Alabama with only minor injuries.

GRAYSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A Birmingham suburb is bringing back its police department after an 11-year hiatus.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Officials say the reconstruction of Interstate 59/20 through downtown Birmingham remains on schedule.

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama city is trying to figure out how to ban guns from a water park were two people were shot.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — "American Idol" producers say auditions will be taking place in Mobile at the GulfQuest maritime museum.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A deadline has passed for the Alabama Democratic Party to elect new leaders.

ST. GEORGE, Ga. (AP) — The president of an Alabama company says he's confident that his firm can mine land just east of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge without polluting the water or soil, despite concerns expressed by a federal agency.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — The slenderclaw crayfish is barely surviving in northern Alabama.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — There's a new recreational program for young people in coastal Alabama who live in a community formed by freed slaves after the Civil War.

OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — Humane societies in Alabama and Georgia are among many participating in this weekend's "Clear the Shelters" events.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Federal highway officials have granted environmental approval for construction of a $2 billion Mobile Bay bridge that critics oppose because of plans to charge tolls, the state said Friday.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama attorney general's office says it will not release to the news media a copy of a contract related to death penalty litigation.

NEW BROCKTON, Ala. (AP) — Eight students from a south Alabama high school are suffering elevated levels of carbon monoxide, and officials are trying to determine why.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers said Friday that he believes Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes has been truthful about whether he graduated from college.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A shooting on the edge of an Alabama college campus killed a student and another man and wounded three others.

FOLKSON, Ga. (AP) — County officials in Georgia are supporting a mining proposal near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge that a U.S. agency has said could cause environmental damage.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The human remains discovered in a shallow grave in Alabama have been identified as a missing man from Georgia.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama say a 7-year-old child was shot and killed after startling a man who had been sleeping on the couch in his home.

CARROLLTON, Ala. (AP) — Mississippi and Alabama authorities say a man led them on a high-speed chase and almost ran over a deputy.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Corrections officials say a search of a state prison in central Alabama turned up weapons, illegal drugs and cellphones.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say two men have been killed and three others injured in a shooting near the campus of Alabama State University.

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say an Alabama man accused of abusing his girlfriend's 1-year-old daughter blamed the girl's injuries on her 4-year-old sibling.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Law enforcement officers swept the Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County as part of an operation to find and remove contraband.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Birmingham psychologist has admitted to trying to defraud Medicaid by billing for counseling services that were never provided, state and federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in his 83-year-old mother's strangling death has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Dozens of people marched and carried signs following a fatal shooting by an off-duty police officer in east Alabama.

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A Mexican national who was convicted of reckless murder and possession of alcohol as a minor has been sentenced to 99 years and three months in an Alabama prison.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced an Opelika woman to prison for embezzling more than $600,000 from volunteer fire departments in Alabama.