Sex offenders in Huntsville, Ala., expected at mandatory meeting on Halloween night

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Registered sex offenders in a northern Alabama city won’t have a hard time making Halloween plans.

Gunman who killed 3 in staged, drug-related Houston robbery is executed Tuesday night

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A convicted hit man was executed Tuesday evening for a triple slaying in Houston nearly 14 years ago.

Ex-cop who staged disappearance in Alabama, stole $60K, fled to Vegas gets 16 months in jail

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A former Alabama police officer has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing from his department, faking his abduction and fleeing to Las Vegas.

Convicted murderer executed in Texas for fatally shooting, robbing Houston drug dealer

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Condemned Texas killer Stephen Moody has been executed for the shooting death of a Houston man during a robbery 18 years ago.

Alabama boy, 11, fakes kidnapping to avoid bringing home a bad report card

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — An 11-year-old boy gets high marks in storytelling after staging a hoax to cover up his bad grades. Police said the boy faked his kidnapping Friday to avoid bringing home a bad report card, saying that a man with a pistol snatched him after he left Ed White Middle School. The boy said the man forced him into a “beat-up car” and threatened to kill him.

Homeless Ala. man who survived being hit by train 2 years ago dies after being struck again

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A homeless man who survived being struck by a train two years ago has died after being hit by another train as he sat on the tracks.

Former US Rep. Bill Hefner from NC dead at age 79; also a gospel singer, owned radio station

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Bill Hefner, a former 12-term Democratic congressman from North Carolina, Southern Baptist gospel singer and radio station owner, died of a brain aneurysm Wednesday. He was 79.

Lockheed Martin sets up new missile defense systems operating unit

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., a division of defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp., said Tuesday that it has established a new missile defense systems operating unit based in Huntsville, Ala.

PPG says Boeing requests windshield liner to keep glass from flight deck in bird-strike event

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — PPG Industries, a maker of paints, coatings and other specialty products, said Thursday one of its subsidiaries received a contract to redesign laminated glass windshields for Boeing’s next-generation 737 airplanes.

NASA engineers deny that human space flight program, Constellation, is too risky, expensive

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Engineers designing NASA’s next moon rocket denied Wednesday that the human space flight program dubbed “Constellation” is too expensive, too risky and would unnecessarily delay man’s return to space.

NASA engineers, managers defend rocket design to Obama space flight panel meeting in Ala.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Engineers designing NASA’s next moon rocket are defending their work to a committee appointed by President Obama to review the nation’s human space flight plans.

Panel reviewing NASA plans for human spaceflight holds public hearing at Ala. rocket center

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The panel reviewing NASA’s future plans for human space flight is convening for a session in Alabama.

AP Interview: Former NASA head casts critical eye on Obama team’s slowdown on new space plan

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Michael Griffin has moved from the administrator’s suite atop NASA headquarters in Washington to the small, bare office of a new engineering professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Texas executes man who killed his 2 stepchildren, 3 other relatives

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A self-described “non-caring monster” who took responsibility for killing five relatives was executed Tuesday in Texas for killing his two stepchildren.

Dallas man executed for abduction, rape, slaying of woman during 1999 crime spree

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man has been executed for the rape and slaying of a woman abducted while she was trying to make a call at a pay phone 10 years ago.

Newly designed ‘Lone Star Texas’ license plates being stockpiled at a prison plant

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The rhythmic thump-thump-thump reverberates throughout the cavernous building like a heartbeat, or the dance floor of a rockin’ good club.