BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Utility regulators from three states used nearly identical language in letters urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to speed up its study on the effects of upcoming coal-fired power plant closures on the U.S. power grid.

DEMOPOLIS, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say two victims who drowned in the Tombigbee River have been identified as high school students.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a 10-year-old Alabama girl fought off a man trying to rape her by kicking him in the groin.

NANTAHALA, N.C. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of an FBI photographer whose husband said she drowned in a creek in North Carolina.

CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) — Police say they will charge an Alabama woman in the deaths of her 3- and 9-year-old sons.

LIVINGSTON, Ala. (AP) — A $2.5 million federal grant will help develop new workers with a goal of expanding economic development in rural west Alabama.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old girl has been kidnapped from a birthday party in Alabama.

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — Larry Pierce was married to his high school sweetheart for 46 years. After sharing nearly half a century of life with her, he was devastated when she died in 2015. Retired from the sheriff's office, where he'd worked in corrections, Larry didn't know what he would do with…

JASPER, Ala. (AP) — The question that Cassie Crowell gets asked the most when she is out in the community with youth participating in the Boys and Girls Club of Central Alabama's local summer program is "Are y'all new?"

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's State Democratic Executive Committee has voted 80 to 73 to adopt new bylaws supported by the party chairwoman at a contentious meeting in Montgomery.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A new research project getting under way around Tuscaloosa aims to document how people react to severe weather.

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — A new, $21 million aerospace facility has opened in north Alabama.