Pinson News

T he FEMA Disaster Recovery Center serves as a one stop shop for tornado victims.

The tornado did great damage to property and claimed human life, but it also displaced dozens of animals.

Authorities have arrested a 23-year-old Birmingham man in connection with the holdup at a Pinson tanning salon this week.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is searching for the person who robbed a Pinson tanning salon.

These are the events that I remember from being in the January 23, 2012, tornado that destroyed part of the Gerogebrooke community in Pinson where I live.

Mallory and Donnie met in middle school but didn't reconnect unitl after college graduation.

Construction workers replace metal roofing at the Jet-Pep gas station on U.S. 79 in Pinson, one of several businesses in the Pinson and Center Point area damaged by early Monday morning tornadoes.

A Pinson man who fatally stabbed his estranged wife in 2010 with enough force to break off the blade in her body was sentenced to a life term today in what a veteran Jefferson County judge called a senseless murder.

The Birmingham restaurant family famous for its signature steer-butt steak and slow-cooked barbecue now hopes to become beloved for its hot dogs.

The Jefferson County Department of Health is working to protect tornado survivors and workers in the aftermath of Monday's devastation.

Dog may be man's best friend, but that loyalty was the downfall of a purse-snatching suspect on Tuesday when the pooch unwittingly gave up his owner who was hiding in the brush in northeast Jefferson County.

Churches of the Birmingham Baptist Association are reaching out to communities after Monday's devastating tornado outbreak.

At the intersection of Winewood Rd and Highway 79 in Birmingham, a possible tornado moved through the area around 4:00 a.m. There are no initial reports of injuries, but Birmingham police were observed in the area inspecting damage and looking for possible victims around 5:00 a.m. A credit union and barbershop in the area received severe damage ... (more)

Jefferson County sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the Food Giant parking lot in the 6600 block of Alabama 75 just after 8 p.m. The 43-year-old man told deputies he had gone to the store when a young man he didn't know approached him and asked for directions to Pinson Valley High School.