Crime

By William Thornton A Huntsville man has been arrested in east Texas on charges of human smuggling. According to the Kilgore (Texas) News Herald, Adan Torres-Ramirez, 30, has been charged by Kilgore police with six counts of […]

By William Thornton Huntsville police have charged a man with capital murder in the shooting death of his wife. Sgt. Rosalind White said David Telton Tolbert, 48, is being held in the Madison County Jail without […]

By Ivana Hrynkiw An Alabama prison captain and former lieutenant were arrested Monday night on charges of bribery. Deaundra Leshawn Johnson, a captain with the Alabama Department of Corrections, is charged with four counts of bribery […]

By The Associated Press A man has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for faking his own death in Alabama to avoid criminal charges of impregnating a teenage girl in his home state of Mississippi. Jacob Blair […]

By Carol Robinson Tears flowed on both sides of a Jefferson County courtroom Monday as a 24-year-old Birmingham woman learned her fate for a street racing crash that killed an innocent Jefferson County grandmother. Carmesia Flannigan, […]

By Carol Robinson  A Birmingham man pleaded guilty Monday in the 2020 killing of a 62-year-old woman who was caught in crossfire on the city’s east side. Lovelle Travis, 29, was set to go on trial […]

A Birmingham woman has been convicted in the 2020 shooting death of her 21-year-old son. A Jefferson County jury on Thursday found 48-year-old Micia Sharika Gamble guilty of murder in shooting death of Tim’Darius Gamble. […]

by DAVID HOOKSTEAD Alleged UVA murderer Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. has been arrested. During a late Monday morning press conference, the University of Virginia police announced that Jones has been taken into custody. It’s not known at this […]

By Howard Koplowitz “State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith,” a Netflix documentary recounting the case of a woman who claimed she shot and killed the man who raped her in self-defense, was released on the streaming service […]