Nine children and a young father were killed when a van and other vehicles slammed together on a rain-drenched Alabama highway during Tropical Storm Claudette, authorities said on Sunday.

Fredrick Kennedy Jr., 25, from Coy, was driving a 2020 Hyundai Kona around 1 a.m. Sunday when the car left the road and struck a utility pole and then a tree, Sgt. Reginal King, a spokesperson for the ...