On the morning of April 25, a seven-year old girl discovered the bodies of her mother and her mother’s boyfriend in her home near Avenue N and 57th Place, in Ensley. The mother was 27, and the boyfriend was 36. According to a statement from the neighbor who first called police, he encountered the young […]
An Alabama teen was detained after allegedly assaulting a fellow student at a high school, resulting in the second student’s hospitalization on May 1. Local authorities reported that a 15-year-old student supposedly attacked a 14-year-old student on campus in the afternoon. The following day, the alleged attacker provided authorities with a statement of the incident […]
A 19-year-old who was accused of planning to set off homemade explosives at his high school is seeking to avoid jail time and get probation instead. The teenager was originally arrested in January of 2013 when he was 17. A high school history teacher reported that the student had written thoughts about plans to bomb […]
A man who was charged with murder for the death of another man in has been found not guilty by a jury. The defense contended throughout the case that the man had acted in self-defense. The incident occurred in 2012 at the home of the man who was fatally wounded. According to defense attorneys, their […]
The Alabama Senate passed a bill this year that permits crimes to be expunged in some cases in whcih a person was charged but not convicted. A senator backing the bill explained that he has heard from a number of people whose lives are still affected by prior incidents for which they were never convicted. […]
Tuscaloosa police officers detained a 51-year-old woman after an alleged shooting on the evening of April 14. Following the incident, a 36-year-old man was taken to a medical facility for a gunshot wound and ultimately succumbed to his injuries, according to a representative of the Tuscaloosa Metro Homicide Unit. Police took the woman into custody […]
A 27-year-old Alabama man faces charges in the death of a man, also 27, in an April 1 shooting in Birmingham. He was detained on the murder charge at the Jefferson County Jail, and his bond was placed at $200,000. Gunshots sounded right before 2 p.m., and authorities responded to the site to see the […]
A 56-year-old Shelby County resident was taken into custody on March 25 on suspicion of supplying prisoners with the prescription pharmaceutical Suboxone. He is being charged with second-degree conspiracy to promote prison contraband and conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. His preliminary hearing was scheduled for April 9. According to court documents, he worked with […]
The case against an Alabama man for capital murder is headed to a grand jury. On March 20, the judge in the case ruled that there was enough probable cause to send the case to a grand jury for indictment. The charges stem from a Jan. 17 incident that started with two men getting into […]
Alabama news sources have reported that a man was shot and killed following an alleged robbery at a Walmart in Coden March 11. As of March 12, the two women allegedly involved face capital murder charges. Authorities believe that the two women, 20 and 25, respectively, saw the man and his daughter at the Walmart […]