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By Carol Robinson  A 24-year-old woman has been convicted in a deadly drive-by shooting in Birmingham. Kaylin Sparks was initially charged with capital murder in the Nov. 28, 2021, slaying of 30-year-old Donnika Sills. Sills […]

By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A 17-year-old has been charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of Aldorthia Burrell, an 82-year-old great-great-grandmother killed earlier this month when she was caught in crossfire […]

By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A Jefferson County jury has sentenced Daniel “Parker” Watson, 31, of Pell City, to death for the 2023 murders of Tiffany Michele Hernandez and Jason Joseph Brown in […]

A 31-year-old man has been convicted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man who intervened in an argument at an Alabama Waffle House. A Montgomery County jury convicted Juqwarn Hartwell in the 2023 killing […]

PRESS RELEASE Huntsville Police are encouraging residents to take simple precautions after noticing an uptick in car break-ins and stolen items. From January through June 2025, there were 435 reported car break-ins, compared to 385 […]

By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS AUBURN, Ala. — The Auburn Police Department has arrested Harold Rashad Dabney III, of Montgomery, in connection to the death of Dr. Julie Gard Schnuelle, 59, a retired Auburn University veterinary professor who […]

BlackNews.com Nationwide — Four African American girls were sadly killed in a house fire in Columbus County, North Carolina, after flames tore through their home in the early hours of the morning. Six children were inside […]

SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS A Birmingham activist has been arrested and charged in connection with a fire set inside the Homewood Walmart on Lakeshore Parkway during protests over the police shooting of 18-year-old Jabari Peoples. Mercutio Southall, […]

By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS Staff PIEDMONT, Ala. — A Georgia couple, Marcus Ragland and Ashley Hawkins, were killed Saturday in a devastating crash at Indian Mountain ATV Park in Cherokee County that also injured seven of their 11 children, according to officials. […]

BlackNews.com Nationwide — Chappel Lee, an African American male nurse from Atlanta, Georgia, has been arrested nearly a year after allegedly raping 73-year-old patient Eva Lay while she was hospitalized in her final weeks. He now […]