Fairfield News

A police officer stands in the doorway to a jewelry store on Martin Luther King Jr.

Area police are on the lookout for two men who robbed a Fairfield, Alabama, jewelry store this afternoon, shooting a person at the store in the head.

John Katopodis, accused of using a local charity's coffers as his own "personal piggy bank," was led away in handcuffs by two deputy U.S. marshals after a federal jury in Birmingham found him guilty Wednesday of 97 counts of mail and wire fraud.

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.

Consideration is being given to parking or disposing of some Jefferson County vehicles.

Eddie Marquis Taylor, 27, is at-large this afternoon after escaping Wednesday night en route to the Fairfield City Jail.

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

Tristar Demolition of Norcross, GA., is razing the former Lloyd Noland Hospital in Fairfield.

Authorities today announced the arrests of a Birmingham man and a Fairfield woman who they say smuggled more than a $100,000 worth of pills into Jefferson County.

On June 1, 2009 the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Narcotics Division, while conducting a narcotics investigation discovered information that Desmond Smith of Birmingham and April Henderson of Fairfield were arriving on a Greyhound Bus in Birmingham with illegal narcotics in their possession.

More than two years after Fairfield police launched a search for a man suspected of raping and robbing a woman outside a Grasselli Road nursing home, DNA evidence has linked a convicted sex offender to the crime, police announced today.

It's tough to find an Alabamian these days who hasn't been hit by the current recession.

The Jefferson County Coroner's Office has released the name of a man shot and killed Sunday night in Midfield after crashing his car into a car dealership.

Alabama's jobless rate ended an 18-month string of increases by holding steady in April, but that doesn't mean the state employment market is ready to rebound, labor experts said Friday.

Facebook, Twitter and blogs are abuzz today with news of a showdown between Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford and local tavern owner Jerry Hartley.

Fairfield police say they caught Markey Jerail Evans last week after he attempted to enter a house with two teen girls inside.

U.S. Steel plans to idle its Fairfield, Ala. steel operations, which will impact 1,711 union workers, a company spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.

Authorities are investigating a double homicide in Bessemer, Alabama, on Friday night.

Fairfield, AL- A natural gas line is burning right now, after a power line fell on top of it.

Residents line up after the new Jefferson County courthouse annex opened in June 2006 in Gardendale.