Brighton News

BRIGHTON,Ala Police are on the scene of an armed robbery that occured around 6:30 tonight.

As the city of Brighton faces an IRS debt that's close to $1 million for failing to pay employee withholding taxes for at least seven years, the city's mayor and a former city clerk each say the other is responsible for the situation.

About $400,000 of that amount is from penalties and interest accrued between 2004 and several months ago, when the city learned withholding taxes had been deducted from employee paychecks during that period but not turned over to the IRS, the mayor said.

Longtime Jefferson County deputy treasurer Doris Britton and political newcomer Sherry McClain are vying for the Democratic nomination and a chance to beat the Republican candidate in the Nov.