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By Patrick Darrington  Authorities on Wednesday found the boat 7-year-old Hunter Slezak was in when he, his father and another man disappeared during a shrimping trip off Dauphin Island, said Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch. As […]

By Carol Robinson An Alabama man accused in the July 18 shooting deaths of his wife and four children – including two of his own – admitted the slayings to investigators shortly after the massacre. “He said the […]

By Carol Robinson  A 20-year-old Jefferson County mother has been charged in the death of her young son. Kayla Mariah Nash is charged with felony murder and aggravated child abuse, according to court records made public […]

By Carol Robinson The shooting of a 3-year-old boy Sunday in a Birmingham apartment appears to be self-inflicted, police said Monday. Birmingham police initially reported that it appeared shots fired from outside the residence at Forest Hills Village […]

By Carol Robinson A Dothan man is under arrest after police say he hit a juvenile girl in the head with a pistol when he found her in a bedroom with a juvenile boy. Allen Terell […]

By Carol Robinson  Family and friends are mourning the death of a young Jefferson County man killed in a weekend shooting. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim Monday as Jaden Rashad Jones. He was 20 […]

By Carol Robinson Chervon Tanner feels like her heart has been torn into pieces. The Birmingham mother spent the weekend worrying about her missing son, and then ended the weekend by learning that he had been […]

By Carol Robinson A north Alabama teen has been charged in a traffic crash that killed two other teens, ages 13 and 15, and injured a fourth. Yeismin Ramirez, 18, of Albertville, is charged with vehicular […]

By Patrick Darrington The Jim Crow era of America is riddled with stories — some told and many unspoken — of violations against the civil rights and basic humanity of Black people. One such story […]

By Carol Robinson  A suspect has been charged in the shooting death of a 45-year-old man killed while driving with his young grandson on Birmingham’s busy Parkway East. The deadly shooting, police said, appears to have […]