Crime

By Carol Robinson  Nearly 50 pounds of marijuana worth more than a quarter of a million dollars was seized at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. Investigators with the Birmingham Police Department Special Enforcement Division’s Vice and Narcotics […]

By Carol Robinson and Howard Koplowitz Tarrant City Council member Tommy Bryant was arrested Monday after he reportedly attacked Mayor Wayman Newton, according to the mayor. The incident happened following Monday’s City Council meeting. Newton said […]

By The Associated Press A man facing a potential death penalty in the killing of three people who were shot at an Alabama church dinner in June is fighting a court-ordered mental evaluation requested by prosecutors. Robert Findlay […]

By Amy Yurkanin An Alabama mom won a $21 million verdict against two doctors and a nurse practitioner at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery after her 14-day-old son died in 2015 from an undiagnosed bowel disease. Lakeisha […]

By Carol Robinson The suspect in the brutal stabbing and dismembering of his girlfriend told investigators he was frustrated because she wouldn’t have sex with him, officials said Thursday. Justin Fields, 38, is charged with murder […]

By Carol Robinson A Sylacauga High School teacher and coach at Sylacauga High School is under arrest on allegations he had sex with a student. Brannon Woodrow Cocherham, 40, is charged with one count of school […]

By Carol Robinson A 21-year-old suspect has been charged with capital murder in the slaying of a Montgomery woman. Police on Wednesday said Keondre Haynes is charged in shooting death of 18-year-old Erykah Manora. Haynes was […]

By William Thornton A Marshall County prosecutor Thursday said a man on trial for capital murder killed a 74-year-old Guntersville woman and her seven-year-old great-grandson in a robbery that garnered $13. Testimony will continue this morning […]

By Carol Robinson A Birmingham food truck worker shot to death when gunfire erupted during a weekend argument is being remembered for his smile and positive outlook. Cornelius Quinterryo Kennedy, 26, was one of two men […]

By Carol Robinson A boy found unresponsive in the indoor pool at a Birmingham hotel has died. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the boy as Jamir Ali-Shabazz-Hawkins. He was 5 and lived in Birmingham. Birmingham Fire and […]