Birmingham News

All visitors will receive half-price admission -- $6 for adults, $3.50 for senior citizens 65 years and older and children ages 2 to 12 years old -- for those bringing a non-perishable food item, per individual, to support the canned food drive.

Birmingham News analysis of the 2008-09 Alabama High School Graduation Exam shows that 130 public high schools either failed reading or were classified as "borderline" failing, based on 11th-graders' performance on the Alabama High School Graduation Exam.

Need something to go with your lunchtime reading? To celebrate Patron Appreciation Day, all Birmingham Public Library locations will give visitors free cake and coffee from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday.

A concert by acclaimed new music specialists eighth blackbird nearly fills Samford University's Brock Recital Hall.

Birmingham mayoral candidate Jody Trautwein visited NBC13HD on Thursday, Nov. 19. Check out his interview with Andrea Lindenberg on our Midday newscast.

Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper spoke Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, to a crime victims group in Birmingham, telling them he understands their pain.

An Irondale man was shot to death Friday night in eastern Birmingham, police report.

Police are investigating after a woman lost control of her car and struck 11 people in Fairfield.

Police have charged a Birmingham man with manslaughter in the shooting death of his brother.

Artur Davis, U.S. Representative of Alabamaa TMs 7th congressional district in 2009, at a news conference announcing his bid for the 2010 Democratic nomination for governor.

A lawsuit contended the council discussed issues June 25 at a closed meeting not allowed under the open meetings law and that it failed to give proper notice for a July 6 meeting.

The Shelby County Drug Enforcement Task Force has arrested eight people in connection with methamphetamine drug activity.

Authorities have charged two men with capital murder in the shooting death of a man in east Birmingham earlier this week.

Richard "Richie Rich" Johnston boasted to a fellow inmate about a 2005 double-homicide, not realizing the other inmate was a long-time friend of the victim, a Birmingham police detective testified today.

Former federal prosecutor Michel Nicrosi says she plans to run for Alabama attorney general as a Democrat.

James Armstrong, a long-time Birmingham barber and civil rights foot soldier, died today.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.: An undercover officer posing as a prostitute in Alabama tried more than once to run off a 13-year-old boy who asked her for sex, but police say the teen insisted and had to be arrested.

It's a nationwide phenomenon and now it's in bookstores. Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue" has finally hit the shelves and it's getting quite the response.

The person shot and killed while in a car in Birmingham has been identified. According to the Birmingham Police Department, the victim was found in the 7700 block of 4th Avenue South about 5:30pm CT Monday, November 16, 2009.

Today's shooting victim appears to have suffered life-threatening injuries, officers said.