An Alabama gas station clerk defends himself with a machete when two alleged robbers pull out knives and demand he hand over the cash in the register, shocking surveillance video shows.

Congress would have to vote to accept any money raised by the organization.

Extreme weather has led to death and destruction in US, Australia and Indian Ocean
The deadliest tornado outbreak in six years hit the south-eastern US on 3 March. In an unusually early start to the tornado season, 36 tornadoes were reported across Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. The most notable, an EF-4 tornado with a half-mile width, struck through Lee County, Alabama, and leaving a 68-mile (109km) path of destruction.
have burned across the Australian state of Victoria in the past two weeks. The fires were ignited naturally from the lightning strikes of thunderstorms and spread rapidly due to strong winds. One of the most damaging fires, in , 40 miles east of Melbourne, destroyed more than 10,000 hectares (24,700 acres) of land and several homes and buildings. Wildfires have been a common occurrence across Australia over the past few months, with the country experiencing its on record.

Rescue crews searched for victims Monday amid the splintered lumber and twisted metal where homes once stood, after the deadliest U.S. tornado in nearly six years ripped through a rural Alabama community. At least 23 people were killed, some of them children.

The wife of an Alabama man charged with capital murder in the slaying of two teenagers nearly 20 years ago says he's innocent.

A truck-driving preacher accused in the killing of two teenage girls from Alabama decades ago was found with the same genealogy database techniques that were used to identify a suspect last year in the notorious "Golden State" serial killings.

AN EXPLOSIVE device has been found inside the Dale County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama.

A truck-driving preacher accused in the killing of two teenage girls from Alabama decades ago was found with the same genealogy database techniques that were used to identify a suspect last year in the notorious "Golden State" serial killings.