Jefferson County News

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Lawmen swept through Jefferson County today, arresting eight men in a large-scale drug probe that brought about $5 million worth of heroin and cocaine into the Birmingham area in less than a year, authorities said.

Police Chief Corky Knight said a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy spotted the woman about 5 a.m. She was discovered on Fifth Avenue near Pleasant Grove cemetery.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Alabama - An inmate at William E. Donaldson Correction facility was stabbed to death Sunday night during a fight inside a cell block.

I truly feel that the commissioners and the county manager are committed to moving the county forward." Carol Sue Nelson.

BESSEMER, Alabama - Authorities this afternoon released the identity of a man whose decomposed body was discovered Thursday evening in Bessemer.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The Alabama Department of Transportation's project to modify traffic flow along U.S. 280 in Jefferson and Shelby counties begins Sunday night -- weather permitting.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, will appear at a series of four "Congress in Your Community" town hall meetings in the Birmingham area next Friday, including three in the Western communities.

When you look at her record, what she's done, the years of experience, what she brings .

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Alabama - A shots-fired call overnight landed a Jefferson County man in jail after lawmen found him in possession of a sawed-off shotgun.

The wreck was reported about 7:30 a.m. It happened in the 5500 block of Tyler Loop Road in the Center Point area.

A sign on the door to the New England Compounding Center requests no soliciting at the Framingham, Mass.

GARDENDALE, Alabama - "Remarkable" and "unprecedented" were two words consultant Ira Harvey used this week to describe Gardendale's financial ability to form its own school system.

Michele White, technology coordinator for the Mobile County Public School System, has been nominated for the 2013 Marbury Technology Innovation Award.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Birmingham officials are taking yet another look at leasing the former Social Security office tower downtown as a possible centralized public safety center.

BESSEMER, Alabama - A Hueytown woman convicted of manslaughter in the 2010 stabbing death of her boyfriend was sentenced this week to 18 months in prison.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A Birmingham law school dean has emerged as the latest candidate for Jefferson County attorney, setting off a round of behind the scenes discussions over who can earn enough votes to get the job.

Dr. Sandral Hullett, CEO and medical director of Cooper Green Mercy Hospital, was among those former hospital employees placed on administrative leave without pay Dec.

A second Jefferson County employee has been fired in an investigation of revenue department workers who took cash to move customers to the front of a cag tag line, County Manager Tony Petelos said today.

The Walker County Ultimate Fair will open today at 5 p.m. at the old airport in Jasper.

GARDENDALE , Alabama - The results of a study assessing the feasibility of creating a city school system in Gardendale will be released tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Gardendale Civic Center.