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The city's credit rating is under review for the next 60 days. The ratings review comes at the same time as other cities, like Cedar Rapids, Iowa, have faced similar rating drops because of changes in how Moody's analyzes cities.

Expect showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2 a.m. tonight.

The Mobile County school board voted Monday to name Chastang Middle School after longtime board member and system employee Hazel Fournier.

A 2-year-old girl was transported to the hospital after a woman threw a brick at her ex-boyfriend and instead struck the car where the child was sitting, according to the Mobile Police Department.

Before sunrise on Saturday, a woman staying at a local motel answered a knock at her door to find a stranger dressed from head-to-toe in black. He forced his way into her room and robbed her at knifepoint, according to the Mobile Police Department.

Four people were standing in the yard of a home on Jones Avenue when they were approached by a man in the early morning hours on Saturday. Minutes later, the man had fatally shot one person and injured two others.

The House Armed Services and Appropriations committees likely will take up the fiscal year 2015 defense spending bill this summer, with a vote in the full House coming at some point after that.

South Alabama officials on Monday were tracking the movements of a handful of storms expected to bring heavy rain into the region in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday.

Schools officials in Mobile and Baldwin counties said on Monday afternoon that they had not planned on any changes in bus or school schedules on Tuesday because of the forecast.

The Lillian Volunteer Fire Department is hoping to build a new fire station.