Bessemer News

As we enter this holiday season, we are called to recommit ourselves to people in need, including the individuals and families that struggle to survive without stable homes.

A jury in Bessemer has convicted 21-year-old Lakendall Sims of 2 counts of capital murder.

Two wrecks, including one with a fatality, shut down portions of Interstate 59/20 in Bessemer this morning.

Bessemer bingo halls had until midnight to shut down completely, but now they have until at least January.

Commander of the Bessemer Police Vice Narcotics Unit Lt. Mike Wood said by late afternoon 21 suspects had been arrested in operation Street Storm which targeted street level drug dealers.

Jefferson Couty lawmen are rounding up Bessemer drug dealers today, Bessemer police said.

More clinics are open this week to administer H1N1 vaccinations in Jefferson County.

Regina Wheeler, left, is domestic violence liason in the Jefferson County District Court Bessemer Division.

Some Alabama electronic bingo halls have until Thursday to shut down. The district attorney in the Bessemer Cutoff division has demanded electronic bingo halls in his area close by Nov.

It's been nearly two years since David Reeves was killed in a drive-by shooting in Birmingham.

The Elks Club Lodge 79 distributed dictionaries to students in third through fifth grades at St.

A Jefferson County jury today found Charlie Joe Wilson, Jr. guilty in the Jan. 11 execution-style shooting death of a man on a Birmingham interstate.

A former Bessemer DHR caseworker is the defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit this week involving a 14-month-old boy who died while the agency investigated claims that the child was being abused.

A Monday decision by Arthur Green, the district attorney for the Bessemer cutoff, to ban bingo in the cutoff has raised the ire of Fairfield city leaders who want the electronic games in their city.

The Jefferson County Department of Health will offer the swine flu vaccine at only two public clinics this week.

The district attorney in the Bessemer Cutoff division of Jefferson County has ordered bingo operators to remove their electronic bingo machines by Nov.

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Norfolk Southern says it moving forward with its plans for a $112 million railroad hub in McCalla after evaluating another location advanced by McCalla opponents of the project.

Jefferson County's district attorney declared about 30 Birmingham-area electronic bingo halls to be for-profit businesses Wednesday and ordered them to shut down and remove their machines within 10 days or face legal action.

Attorney General Troy King acted last week to dismiss five lawsuits that he said do not have merit and were improperly brought by private attorneys on behalf of five district attorneys, including 19th Judicial Circuit DA Randall Houston.