The Sunrise News Sampler

Eighteen-year-old Sidney Haynie and 18-year-old Michael Olmstead were arrested for the theft of a doll at Walmart last month. Haynie was released after posting a $500.00 bond. Olmstead was taken to the Tuscaloosa County Jail pending a $300.00 bond.

Next Thursday, January 30 from 9:00am until 12 noon, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation will host a hiring fair for veterans and military spouses at the Multiplex, Cramton Bowl in Montgomery . For more information, visit hiringourheroes.org.

A new AP-GfK poll finds that less than a third of Americans consider President Obama to be an above-average president, but nearly twice as many find him likable.

The University of Utah is investigating how a convicted felon working at a now-defunct university fertility clinic two decades ago switched his sperm and fathered a woman who is now 21. Now, more families are considering paternity tests.

Six Tuscaloosa residents and one from Birmingham have been given suspended jail sentences after pleading or being found guilty of fraudulently claiming unemployment compensation. All were also ordered to pay court costs and full restitution.

George Cooper, the executive director of the White House initiative on historically black colleges and universities will speak at Stillman College's convocation in Birthright Hall at 11:00 this morning.

Today, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will release a report that urges President Obama to stop the NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone data.

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index says the nation's uninsured rate dropped modestly this month as the major coverage expansion under President Obama's health care law got underway.

Florida State backup quarterback Jacob Coker has been released from his scholarship and met with UA head coach Nick Saban on Tuesday.