Southeast

Birmingham voters go to the polls next Tuesday to decide among six candidates who will be the next mayor of Alabama’s biggest city. Mayor William Bell, who won the office in January 2010, is seeking reelection.

Brighton notified the bond market Tuesday that it failed to comply with continuing disclosure requirements regarding the filing of financial reports.

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service has closed an audit of the Highlands County Health Facilities Authority's 2005 refunding bonds with no change to their tax-exempt status.

BRADENTON, Fla.— Standard & Poor's has lowered to AA-plus from AAA the issuer credit rating of the South Florida Water Management District, citing recent legislative changes that "significantly reduced the district's financial flexibility."

BRADENTON, Fla. - The small city of Brighton, Ala., has defaulted on general obligation warrants it issued in 2003.

DALLAS - A proposed $748 million capital improvement plan for East Baton Rouge Parish, La., was officially killed Wednesday night by the Metropolitan Council.

BRADENTON, Fla. - Jefferson County, Ala., commissioners may decide Friday whether to file for bankruptcy if creditors holding $3.14 billion of troubled sewer debt do not agree to accept the county's final offer to restructure the debt.

Mississippi Lieut. Gov. Phil Bryant last week bested four candidates vying for the Republican nomination for governor this fall.

Officials of the Parishwide School District of Orleans Parish and the state-operated New Orleans Recovery School District said Monday they would revise current plans to ensure that New Orleans’ hurricane-damaged schools will be rebuilt or replaced with the $2 billion in federal aid already received for the effort.

Florida plans to advance $3 billion of transportation projects, according to Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad.