Tarrant News

Detectives are looking for a group of thieves who stole three Jefferson County trucks and vandalized nine other vehicles at the county's General Services facility in Tarrant.

The story of the recession in Alabama is being told at mealtime. State statistics show there was a 24.8 percent increase in families receiving food assist ance in the last year.

Thieves broke into nine Jefferson County vehicles and stole three others over the long holiday weekend, authorities said today.

Shayron Dunham makes a batch of creamed potatoes for lunch at Fultondale Elementary School.

Allen Folse thinks Tarrant, the industrial neighborhood north of Birmingham, is a hidden jewel for businesses like his.

The Tarrant City School system will receive a $239,772 grant that was part of the federal stimulus package passed earlier this year, Gov.

Authorities are searching an area of near Tarrant-Huffman Road at this hour for suspects involved in a pawn shop robbery.

Patric Suggs pleaded guilty earlier to slaying Michael Self by beating him to death.

Four Birmingham-area schools are among 63 nationwide where the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is monitoring the air for excessive pollution.

Factories, cars, and fire all produce pollutants but for some schools in our area those toxins are being dumped over the heads of our children.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 4 announced preliminary results of air toxics testing at 4 schools in Jefferson County, Ala., that were selected as part of EPA's Schools Air Toxics Monitoring Initiative.

Petitions are being circulated to remove her from office. Challengers are lining up in her district to take her County Commission seat.

A woman died Wednesday night after being struck by a tractor trailer rig as she walked from a convenience store toward a bingo hall in Tarrant.

A man was shot and killed in Tarrant this past weekend. The Jefferson County Coroners Office reports that Deangelo Hudson, 20, died from a gunshot wound.

Tarrant police are continuing today to look for three men involved in the shooting death of another man Saturday night.

Antwon Womack is running for the District Six seat on the Birmingham School Board.

As of this week, every public high school in Alabama has at least one Access Distance Learning Lab.

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and State School Superintendent Joseph Morton will be at the new Tarrant High School in Tarrant, Ala., today to celebrate a milestone for education in the state.All public high schools in the state are now linked through ACCESS distance learning.

A fourth defendant admitted his role today in a 2008 shooting death by a group of men who were targeting Hispanic workers in Tarrant for robbery, lawyers said.

Some McCalla residents are steamed about the possibility of Norfolk Southern Railroad building a $90 million cargo-loading terminal in their area.