Birmingham News

Repossessing a car can be dangerous work. Birmingham police say a 28-year-old Pinson man was gunned down early Thursday after he attempted to tow a repossessed car on 19th Court North.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - This time, somebody listened to prisoners' complaints over lousy jail food.

Bobby Rush: Refusal to seat Burris just like 'dogs being sicced on children in Birmingham.' >> After disgraced Illinois Gov.

Former 500cc Grand Prix World Champion Kevin Schwantz announced on an Internet radio show that the Kevin Schwantz Suzuki School is moving from Road Atlanta to Barber Motorsports Park and that he will also run ...

A 23-year-old man who was charged in connection with the shooting of an off-duty Birmingham police officer has turned himself in to authorities, one of his lawyers said today.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 6. /PRNewswire/ -- Davidson Hotel Company, one of the nation's largest independent hotel management companies, today announced that it has signed an agreement to operate the 329-room ...

Birmingham is expected to get an "F" for traffic safety and for transportation funding in a report being released today by The Road Information Program, a Washington-based, nonprofit transportation group.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An Alabama police organized crime specialist who vanished last week amid signs of a struggle, triggering a search of a nearby river, was arrested in Las Vegas and accused of staging his ...

The city's first homicide of the new year came midday Monday when a man opened fire in broad daylight on two brothers in southwest Birmingham.

However, for those who live in troubled areas and others who lost loved ones, there is still plenty of work to be done.

The National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Watch for Birmingham and most of north-central Alabama from 9pm tonight and until Tuesday evening.

Jefferson County Sheriff's officials today identified a man shot Tuesday night as Kelton C. Barkley of Birmingham.

The number of homicides in Birmingham and in all of Jefferson County dropped in 2008 for the second year in a row.

From Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper: "This case started with a fight between two men.

A 65-year-old Birmingham man was shot in the left leg Saturday night as he pleaded with his attacker not to steal his wallet, according to a Birmingham police report.

A downturn in the housing market is allowing Trussville to preserve 1,472 acres along the Cahaba River.

There used to be a time when people who called Linda Jahraus' home in Laguna Beach, Ca., were actually wanting to speak to her or her husband.

The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a civil rights leader during the 1950s and 1960s, continues to improve from the pneumonia and dehydration that led to his hospitalization in Alabama a week ago.

Former Alabama Gov. Guy Hunt has improved enough to be moved to a private nursing facility in Birmingham.

Authorities in Birmingham are working to learn the identity of a person who died when a house went up in flames on New Year's Eve night.