Brighton News

So far, seven people have been slain in Jefferson County in 2009, down from 13 last year.

A 16-year-old from Bessemer has been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a 28-year-old woman.

There's a special runoff election today to fill the unexpired term of state Rep.

A 22-year-old man convicted in the 2007 murders of two people in Brighton was sentenced today to life in prison without parole.

Rescue workers carry William Thomas Camp for treatment. Authorities have located a 75-year-old Alzheimer's patient missing since Saturday night.

A 75 year old man from Brighton remains missing, despite aerial searches for him.

At midnight Friday Sheriff Mike Hale closed the Bessemer jail and gave those near four dozen deputies their walking papers.

They include closing the Bessemer Jail and placing 45 deputies and 27 civilians on unpaid leave.

Brighton police and Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies are investigating a Monday night shooting that left one man wounded, according to a sheriff's spokesman.

At the end of the block neighbors say the storm sewer is stopped up and water has no place to go.

People who live in low areas or near waterways got just what they didn't need today- more rain.

After a week-long search, Jefferson County sheriff's deputies and U.S. Marshals have captured a suspect sought in the murder of a Brighton man.

Three homicides in just over a month, all within a few blocks of each other, have turned Brighton and the outer lying area into a war zone.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's office is assisting the Brighton Police Dept. in the city's latest homicide.

A 24-year-old Birmingham man was convicted today of capital murder in the Nov. 2, 2007, shooting deaths of Carl Moneyham and Donna Green in Brighton, according to the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office.

A Capital Murder suspect has been arrested in connection with a Brighton homicide.

A Capital Murder suspect has been arrested in connection with a Brighton homicide.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is investigating an apparent drive-by shooting that killed a 38-year-old woman who was asleep in bed.

Instead of sheriff's deputies, what would Jefferson County look like with the National Guard on the streets? With 40 percent of his department wiped out this morning in court, Sheriff Mike Hale says he would have to cut 300 deputies, which would leave a major hole in his staff and compromise public safety.

Jeremy Dewayne Craig arrested this morning in death of Della Mae Banks. A 23-year-old man was taken into custody this morning in connection with the fatal shooting of a Brighton woman killed this week while asleep in her bed.