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Verenice Castillo's efforts to strengthen spouses at Maxwell Air Force Base shined last week as she, the Air Force Military Spouse of the Year and wife of Maj.

Groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday June 25, 2010 on Redstone Arsenal for the FBI's Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center, which will move here from Quantico, Va.

The water dispute between Alabama, Florida and Georgia is provoking hardball politics in Congress, where Georgia lawmakers derailed a proposal that could restrict metro Atlanta's water supply.

Portraits of Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins, two of the four girls who were killed in the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., are seen.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski is one of NASA's most powerful supporters as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, but a new report says she is worried that budget sequestration could cripple the Space Launch System being developed in Huntsville, AL., and possibly NASA's entire mission.

A shopper leaves Bath & Body Works Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 at Bel Air Mall in Mobile, Ala.

CHATTING WITH CONSTITUENTS. U.S. Senator Richard Shelby meets with Cherokee County constituents at Tony's Restaurant in Centre durign a recent visit to the area.

Buying something online would no longer be a way to dodge sales taxes under a bill the Senate is expected to approve Monday night with the support of Alabama's two Republican senators.

Reasons to be Cautious About Sustained Recovery Jay Brinkmann, chief economist and senior vice president of research and education at the Mortgage Bankers Association, explains what will impact the national housing recovery in 2013.

WE'RE HEARING that the deck is stacked against Rep. Mel Watt , D-N.C., and his chances of being confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as the new GSE regulator are 100-to-1 at best.

After FAA furloughs were spared by Congress, advocates for other agencies and programs are looking for fixes to their own across-the-board budget cut woes.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday will nominate Rep. Mel Watt for a key housing position, but his chances of confirmation face long odds as Republicans and the administration continue to sharply disagree over what to do with bailed out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

On Tuesday, NASA announced it had extended a deal with the Russian space agency Roscosmos to provide crew transportation services to and from the International Space Station .

In early April, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., joined a handful of other senators in drafting a letter in part about new rules of the road governing bank capital requirements.

U.S. Sen. Chris Coons is urging fellow lawmakers to appropriate $20 million for centers that coordinate investigations and intervention services in child abuse cases.

This April marks the three year anniversary of an oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.

A day after the Obama Administration sent its FY 2014 budget to Congress, the Senate Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee held a hearing on the Commerce Department request.

WASHINGTON -- NASA's administrator tried to reassure wary lawmakers Thursday his agency isn't foot-dragging on developing a rocket to take astronauts into deep space by the next decade.

US Sen. Richard Shelby speaks and answers questions at Senator Richard Shelby's 2012 Washington Update Breakfast at the VBC North Hall in Huntsville, Ala.

On April 18, Sen. Joe Manchin and Sen. Dean Heller introduced American Bankers Association-supported legislation addressing the issuance of final rules based on the third banking supervision accords issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision .