Jefferson County News

A woman found on a Pleasant Grove roadside Tuesday with a Walmart bag over her head has been criminally charged after authorities found she made up the ordeal.

ADOC officials report that Anthony Jones, 54, was stabbed during a fight with another inmate at the Donaldson Correctional Facility.

Rescue teams from Jefferson County are gearing up for the next disaster. They're bringing out all the tools, all the teams and every ounce of effort to make this search-and-rescue simulation as authentic asa More A CBS 42's Melissa Crabtree talks to concerned parents in Chilton County about a pre-K program that may be changing.

A 71-year-old convicted sex offender is back in jail today after authorities say he's up to his old tricks.

The Alabama Incident Management Team holds a joint exercise with Jefferson County EMA, Fire Departments in Jefferson County and Homeland Security.

CLAY , Alabama -- The doctors told Joseph Walter's parents he likely would not live to see his second birthday, but on Thursday night they will watch as the 18-year-old graduates from Clay-Chalkville High School, 20th out a class of 296 students.

The Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority building on Morris Avenue will be leveled to make way for a new intermodal center.

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.