Fairfield News

The Fairfield City Council tonight unanimously passed an ordinance which will allow electronic charity bingo operations to open in the city.

Not much hints at the slave life that existed during the 1860s at the area that is now Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park.

Fairfield, AL - 2 visitations are set for Trieu Cao Duong, the Fairfield jewelery store owner shot to death during a robbery last week.

A scheduled vote on a proposed bingo ordinance for the city of Fairfield did not take place Monday night because the City Council lacked a quorum to hold an official meeting.

Trieu Duong was killed Thursday afternoon during a robbery at his Fairfield jewelry store.

A community is still reeling from the murder of a well-known jewelry shop owner in Fairfield.

A police officer stands in the doorway to a jewelry store on Martin Luther King Jr.

Area police are on the lookout for two men who robbed a Fairfield, Alabama, jewelry store this afternoon, shooting a person at the store in the head.

John Katopodis, accused of using a local charity's coffers as his own "personal piggy bank," was led away in handcuffs by two deputy U.S. marshals after a federal jury in Birmingham found him guilty Wednesday of 97 counts of mail and wire fraud.

Voters in west Jefferson County will go to the polls Tuesday in a special Democratic runoff election to fill the state Senate District 19 seat vacated by the federal conviction of former Sen.

Consideration is being given to parking or disposing of some Jefferson County vehicles.

Eddie Marquis Taylor, 27, is at-large this afternoon after escaping Wednesday night en route to the Fairfield City Jail.

State Rep. Priscilla Dunn, D-Bessemer, picked up endorsements today from three former challengers in her bid for the Senate District 19 seat.

Tristar Demolition of Norcross, GA., is razing the former Lloyd Noland Hospital in Fairfield.

Authorities today announced the arrests of a Birmingham man and a Fairfield woman who they say smuggled more than a $100,000 worth of pills into Jefferson County.

On June 1, 2009 the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Narcotics Division, while conducting a narcotics investigation discovered information that Desmond Smith of Birmingham and April Henderson of Fairfield were arriving on a Greyhound Bus in Birmingham with illegal narcotics in their possession.

More than two years after Fairfield police launched a search for a man suspected of raping and robbing a woman outside a Grasselli Road nursing home, DNA evidence has linked a convicted sex offender to the crime, police announced today.

It's tough to find an Alabamian these days who hasn't been hit by the current recession.

The Jefferson County Coroner's Office has released the name of a man shot and killed Sunday night in Midfield after crashing his car into a car dealership.

Alabama's jobless rate ended an 18-month string of increases by holding steady in April, but that doesn't mean the state employment market is ready to rebound, labor experts said Friday.