Bessemer News

Sgt. Hank Edwards has been a police officer in Bessemer since 1996 and currently serves as warden at the city jail.

ADOC officials report that Anthony Jones, 54, was stabbed during a fight with another inmate at the Donaldson Correctional Facility.

BESSEMER, Alabama -- A dialysis center here has been shut down after two patients died and others were hospitalized due to infection-related illnesses, according to a spokesman for the international company that owns and operates it.

BESSEMER, Alabama - Authorities this afternoon released the identity of a man whose decomposed body was discovered Thursday evening in Bessemer.

HOOVER, Alabama - Saxophonist Vann Burchfield , who has performed at the White House on four occasions, is scheduled to play a free concert at the Hoover Library Plaza this Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Burchfield, a Bessemer native, in February 2000 set a Guinness world record for circular breathing, holding one continuous note for 47 minutes, 6 seconds, ... (more)

It's been called one of the last juke joints in Alabama if not the country. Last week a crowd packed Bessemer City Hall to show support for Gip's Place.

BESSEMER, Alabama - A Hueytown woman convicted of manslaughter in the 2010 stabbing death of her boyfriend was sentenced this week to 18 months in prison.

Splash Adventure Water Park has added a new sea lions show that is included with the price of admission.

Henry "Gip" Gipson performs at Gip's Place, his renowned blues juke joint in Bessemer, Ala., Saturday, May 11, 2013.

Improved transit can be the catalyst for tapping unrealized economic potential along the Bessemer Super Highway corridor, a study recommends.

BESSEMER, Alabama - Despite being ordered to close by Bessemer officials and police, the show will go on tonight - as it has for decades - at Gip's Place, the renowned blues juke joint on Avenue C. A post on the Gip's Place Facebook page says this about the show: "I am pretty sure that Bessemer PD will be watching Ave C and the neighborhood very ... (more)

Longtime blues joint Gip's Place, in Bessemer, Ala., has been forced to close its doors.

Birmingham musician Buddy Causey will appear at the ARCA record and CD show in Bessemer.

Splash Adventure Water Park has added a new sea lions show that is included with the price of admission.

The Bessemer Farmers Market will be held Friday afternoons behind Boateng's Cajun Creations Restaurant and near Alex Bradford Park .

A 60-year-old Hueytown man died early today after he was struck by a vehicle while walking on an interstate exit ramp.

Transit advocates, experts and municipal officials Saturday will gather to discuss a regional study to improve conditions in southwestern Jefferson County.

Birmingham commercial real estate firm Graham & Co. has announced its latest transactions, which include a new industrial space for a commercial coffee and espresso machine sales and service company.

Members of Bessemer Industrial Development Board at meeting Tuesday. Simmie Roberson, Herbert Kidd Jr., Chairman Jim Ed Mulkin .

Shaneida Hendon, 18, was charged with capital murder in the Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011 shooting of Moeshia Townsend, also 18, in Bessemer, Ala.