Montgomery

Alabama law enforcement officers Sunday were imploring people to come forward with information about a shooting that killed four people and injured 28 others during a teenager's birthday party.

The statues of chained men, women and children stick hauntingly out of sand as simulated waves crash overhead, a symbol to the estimated two million people for whom the slave trade ended in a watery grave in the Atlantic Ocean.

The exhibit is part on an expanded museum created by the Equal Justice Initiative that focuses on the legacy of slavery in America.

Alabama state and business leaders are visiting two eastern European nations this week on a five-day mission to open new markets.

Alabama Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield and representatives of seven companies are visiting Romania and Bulgaria this week, with meetings scheduled in Bucharest and Sofia.