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Spokesman Officer Christopher Levy said Anthony Alan Windham was pronounced dead on the scene after the accident was reported about 12:55 a.m. Full story »

BATON ROUGE, La. -- A student fell from the roof of the Life Sciences Building at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge about 11 a.m. today and has died from his injuries. Full story »

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. -- A 23-year-old Indianapolis woman fell asleep in the back of her Jeep in front of a tattoo shop and remained asleep as a Discount Towing truck towed her to its lot, according to officials with the Bay County Sheriff's Office. Full story »

In Alabama, the age of consent is 16, Tyson said, and the investigation revealed that the girl consented to having sex with former police officer Marshall Freeman. Full story »

Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey, a 45-year-old claims to be a direct descendant of Vlad II the Impaler, better known as Dracula.  Full story »

Tuesday: Partly cloudy becoming mostly cloudy. Highs in the low to upper 60s. Lows in the low to upper 40s. Rain chance: Less than 5 percent Tuesday and 20 percent Tuesday night. Full story »

An Orange Beach resident who moved into a new home last year and was cleaning the vacant building came across several garbage bags stuffed with mail -- thousands of pieces. Full story »

Stories of interest from around the state. Full story »

Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb said across-the-board cuts appear likely for the state General Fund budget, and that will mean a drastic reduction for the state court system. She said the layoffs could grow to several hundred court employees unless the governor uses money from the state's rainy day fund to help state agencies. Full story »

That could set up a competition with Gulf Shores, Ala., where the rebuilt Gulf State Park fishing pier had claimed to be the longest on the Gulf at 1,540 feet -- a mere 5 feet shorter than the projected Navarre Beach Pier length.  Full story »

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama Supreme Court has refused to release supervisors with the Alabama Department of Public Safety as defendants in a civil lawsuit brought by a woman who alleges she was sexually abused by a former state trooper along a Perry County highway. Full story »

MOBILE, Ala. -- Police on Sunday arrested 2 men in connection an armed robbery that happened three days earlier in northwest Mobile. Full story »

RALEIGH, N.C. -- John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter said in an interview released today that they are still in love, even if their relationship turned into something "different" around the time he acknowledged the affair in 2008. Full story »

PERDIDO, Ala. -- Carolyn Presley was among the first to suspect a catastrophe was unfolding in her Alabama community in the early 1980s, according to reports and others who still live in rural northeast Baldwin County.  Full story »

PERDIDO -- Some 45 years after a train derailment spilled benzene in this north Baldwin community, the government is preparing for another review of the Superfund cleanup and hoping to see further decline in the toxic plume.  Full story »