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Birmingham - The Birmingham Police Department reports that a male suspect has been identified in connection with a robbery that occurred on Monday, December 1, 2008, at Compass Bank, located at 1694 Montclair ...

Cleveland quarterback Brady Quinn says surgery on his right index figure was successful and he hopes to be throwing again in about six weeks.

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A woman has pleaded guilty to intentionally killing her stepfather in his Birmingham home, halting her Jefferson County capital murder trial.

Tommy Tuberville is out as Auburn's football coach, The Birmingham News has learned.

A 44-year-old man shot Sunday during a struggle with a Birmingham church security guard remains in UAB Hospital and may face an attempted murder charge, according to Birmingham police.

Birmingham City Council members say he has their moral support as well. City Councilors Carole Smitherman and Valerie Abbott tell NBC 13 theya re really not surprised by the charges.

Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Larry Langford is out on bond after being charged with bribery, fraud and other federal charges in a Jefferson County financial scandal.

A 25 year old suspected robber was shot to death by the man he was trying to rob.

Police are investigating a robbery that left one man dead and two others injured.

The mayor of Alabama's largest city was arrested Monday on charges of steering millions of dollars of bond work to a friend in exchange for more than $230,000 in bribes to pay for an expensive wardrobe and flashy jewelry.

The bond deals _ which funded years of work on a substandard county sewer system _ went sour and have helped push surrounding Jefferson County to the brink of filing the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

The charges stem from Mayor Larry Langford's time on the Jefferson County Commission, where he served four years as president. He is accused of telling Wall Street giants JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and the now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers that they had to include his friend's investment banking firm on the deal if they wanted to handle the county's bond work, which was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Autopsies are being conducted on two Ashville women whose vehicle was found in a stream beneath Interstate 59, as state troopers continue to investigate the friends' accident.

Fire officials said a blaze reported at an east Birmingham complex turned out to be a heating unit gone bad.

Hoover officials have team with Birmingham, the Alabama Department of Transportation and the Birmingham Metropolitan Planning Organization to find a way to improve emergency response time to crashes.

A lot of questions surround the death of 21-year-old Brandon Cobb last November.

There were new numbers released by the Congressional Quarterly publications showed New Orleans at the top of the crime rankings.

Birmingham area postal inspectors are cracking down on mail theft while urging customers to avoid sending cash-filled cards this holiday season.

A Birmingham man faces charges that he violated securities laws, authorities said.

Australian prosecutors charged an American man on Friday with murder in the drowning of his wife during their honeymoon at the Great Barrier Reef.