Jefferson County News

Gov. Bob Riley said he will appoint a new chief prosecutor for Alabama's most populous county.

For more than two decades, David Barber has been Jefferson County's district attorney.

A 14-year-old girl is intensive care at Children's Hospital in Birmingham tonight with a gunshot wound to the head, but authorities are not sure how the girl was shot.

After serving eight months behind bars for a conviction of receiving stolen property, Annette McWashington Pruitt was excited about the prospect of being able to vote again.

Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 4:40 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 4:40 a.m. The American Civil Liberties Union sued Alabama elections officials Monday over what it says is an overly ...

The Highway Patrol said a Knox County woman died in a motorcycle crash caused by a blown tire.

A hot stagnant air mass has prompted Birmingham regional authorities to issue a Code Orange Air Quality Alert.

According the Jefferson County Sheriff's office they responded to a call Saturday afternoon of a body in the Warrior River called in from a home near the river in the 500 block of Yellow Creek Rd near the ...

BIRMINGHAM -- The Jefferson County coroner's office has ruled that a man who died last month after being zapped by police with a stun gun died of heart complications.

A new team of financial advisors is working to help Jefferson County, as its continues to struggle with the sewer debt crisis.

A robbery suspect who led deputies on a high speed chase was critically injured when the vehicle he was driving overturned, ejecting him.

The Securities and Exchange Commission claims that even if a federal court in Alabama finds the swaps Jefferson County sold earlier this decade are not "securities-based" and therefore outside the SEC's ...

The chief deputy coroner of Jefferson County says a Pinson man was killed when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a truck.

Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputies have charged a Graysville man in the death of his half-brother. In a news release, deputies charged Jonathan Melcher, 22, Graysville, with murder.

Jefferson County, Alabama, has to declare bankruptcy. Here's why. The county needs protection.

A court-appointed attorney for 16 year old Pierre Smith who is accused in a double murder at a Birmingham nightclub said his client told him he didn't pull the trigger.

BIRMINGHAM: Attorney Mitch Damsky met with his new client for about an hour this morning at the Jefferson County jail.

The commissioners are now looking to get a new set of financial consultants to help come up with ways of avoiding bankruptcy because of the county's $3.2 billion sewer debt.

A 41-year-old Birmingham man has been arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in the fatal shootings of two men last weekend in Birmingham's Inglenook neighborhood.

Federal and state authorities are looking into accusations of voting fraud in three largely black counties of Alabama, including Perry and Lowndes Counties, which played a historic role in the struggle for ...