MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama police officer has been fired after being arrested on a murder charge in what authorities describe as an off-duty shooting.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A south Alabama police officer was charged with murder in a shooting that occurred while he was off duty, authorities said Tuesday.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The second of three men charged in the fatal shooting of an Indianapolis pastor's pregnant wife has reached a plea deal.

Marion County prosecutors announced Wednesday that 26-year-old Diano Gordon has agreed to plead guilty to robbery resulting in serious bodily injury and burglary.

Prosecutors will in exchange drop murder, theft and other charges Gordon faced in the November 2015 slaying of 28-year-old Amanda Blackburn.

HOUSTON (AP) — A new study suggests if the Houston area continues to boom for 60 years and sea levels rise, a direct hit to Galveston from a massive hurricane could destroy $31.8 billion worth of homes, the Houston Chronicle reports .

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Senate has approved a bill prohibiting coverage of abortion by some health insurance plans in Texas — despite similar efforts stalling previously.

Monday's 21-10 vote sends Friendswood Republican Sen. Larry Taylor's bill to the state House. It came as activists in the Senate gallery shouted "abortion is healthy care" and briefly unrolled a protest banner before being escorted out.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A voucher plan offering families public money to send their children to private and religious schools is headed to the full Texas Senate.

Sen. Larry Taylor's bill would create state-subsidized education saving accounts for parents while offering tax credits to businesses that sponsor private schooling via donations.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Senate has preliminarily approved a bill prohibiting coverage of abortion by some health insurance plans in Texas — despite similar efforts stalling previously.

Wednesday's 19-10 vote leaves Sen. Larry Taylor's bill a final, largely ceremonial vote away from heading to the House.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers have begun grappling with a hot-button voucher plan offering families public money to send their children to private and religious schools.

Friendswood Republican Sen. Larry Taylor's bill would create state-subsidized education saving accounts for parents and offer tax credits to businesses that sponsor children's private schooling via donations.

WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a southeastern Kentucky woman accused of fatally shooting her husband and two teenage daughters.

WYMT-TV (http://bit.ly/2nGtx65) reports Courtney L. Taylor of Williamsburg was indicted Monday on three counts of murder and one count of wanton endangerment. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges in District Court. The indictments move the case to Circuit Court.

RAYMOND, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say they found drugs inside the patrol car of a Hinds County Sheriff's Department interdiction officer.

The sheriff's office said in a news release that undisclosed amount of drugs were found in Larry Taylor's patrol vehicle on Tuesday. The 31-year-old is charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (AP) — A southeastern Kentucky woman accused of killing her husband and two teenage daughters has been transferred from a hospital to jail.

Police told the Lexington Herald-Leader (http://bit.ly/2k8AsTq ) that 41-year-old Courtney L. Taylor of Williamsburg was released from University of Kentucky Hospital. She is being held at the Whitley County jail.

WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (AP) — Police in southeastern Kentucky say officers shot a woman brandishing a handgun after she allegedly killed her husband and two teenage daughters at their home.

Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell says officers were called to the home of Larry and Courtney Taylor on Friday night after a relative went there to check on the family.

WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (AP) — Police in southeastern Kentucky say officers shot a woman brandishing a handgun after she allegedly killed her husband and two teenage daughters at their home.

Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell says officers were called to the home of Larry and Courtney Taylor Friday night after a relative went there to check on the family.