Bessemer News

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.

The U.S. Marshal Service and Fairfield Police are looking for two men who shot and killed a jewelry store owner.

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Tami Shelton McCarver and her family learned to thrive after a tragedy changed their lives.

A Fort Polk, La. funeral detail carries the body of Sgt. Ricky D. Jones, 26. The body of Sgt.

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

The $38 million in budget cuts the Jefferson County Commission approved this week show why the Legislature can't sit back and do nothing to revive the county's occupational tax.

Tuesday the Jefferson County Commission unanimously approved a resolution to cut county spending by at least thirty two million dollars.

A 38-year-old Bessemer woman is being held in the Jefferson County Jail tonight on bonds totaling $240,000 after being charged with two counts of sodomy and two counts of rape of a child under the age of 12.

Bessemer police are investigating an early-morning shooting that killed one man.

A man was found dead in Bessemer early this morning. Pat Curry of the Jefferson County Coroner's Office tells NBC13HD News James David Porter, 43, of Bessemer, was discovered at 128 7th Street South in Bessemer just after 2:00am CT today, June 18, 2009.

Crime Stoppers will take your call anytime, 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 254-7777. Callers are given private code numbers so they never have to give their names.

Center Point satellit courthouse is among the offices in Jefferson County that will close this summer as part of a budget cut.

A couple charged in both Birmingham and Bessemer with stealing from and neglecting residents at boarding homes they ran pleaded guilty today to a felony theft charge in Birmingham.

Lawyers for Bessemer City Councilwoman Louise Alexander will argue before a judge today that the criminal charges against her should be dropped.

Jefferson County Commission President Bettye Fine Collins has warned for months that major cuts are coming for the county, now those cuts are clear.

A Bessemer man is in jail facing three charges following a Thursday morning robbery in Bessemer, police said.

At 12:01pm on Friday June 12, 2009, ABC 33/40 will stop transmitting our analog signal on channels 33 and 40.

With the strength to hold a train's track in place, a rough, rusty railroad spike was shaped by fire, tools and a craftsman's hands into a knife with the beauty to forge out a first place.

Some Jefferson County seniors are getting some help buying health foods. The county Office of Senior Citizen Services is facing major funding cuts, but today it gave $30 worth of coupons to seniors over the age of 60.