Tarrant News

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.

Authorities are searching for relatives of a man found dead this morning in Tarrant.

The Jefferson County Commission voted Tuesday to close all of its satellite courthouses by Aug.

One of four men who decided to rob Hispanics last year after a friend said they were easy targets pleaded guilty today to felony murder for shooting a man they robbed in Tarrant.

Why join? Listen Live Birmingham Police are on the scene of a triple shooting that has happened the 1100 block of East Park Drive, just off Gadsden Highway.

Obsessed. That's how neighbors describe 43-year old Darol Odell. He's the man Birmingham police say lead them on a chase through the streets of northeast Jefferson County after shooting another man to death, and before shooting himself in the head in front of his Tarrant home.

Police in Birmingham say a shooting outside a Roebuck methadone clinic left one man dead and two bystanders wounded.