Alabama is now the last state that still allows judges to reject a jury's recommendation of  life in prison without parole and instead sentence an inmate to be executed. The only other state allowing that was Delaware, and the U.S.…
Police say a 50-year-old Montgomery man has been charged with damaging and stealing city parking meters. Captain Zedrick Dean says police arrested Lester Brown early Sunday morning and charged him with three counts of theft of property first degree. Dean says…
Prichard police have arrested 16-year-old boy and charged him with second degree assault for shooting a teen at Vigor High School on Tuesday. Police Department spokesman Philip Steil says the teen that was shot in the abdomen is expected to…
The body of a woman has been found inside a burning car behind a vacant home in Birmingham. Birmingham police spokesman Lt. Sean Edwards said in a statement that the burning car was reported Monday afternoon in the city's Wylam…
Officials say a 4-year-old girl will be reunited with her family in Florida after she was driven to Tennessee by a man who took her from her home. Memphis, Tennessee, police found Rebecca Lewis just after noon Monday after receiving…
Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from a correctional facility in Escambia County. The Alabama Department of Corrections said in a news release that 40-year-old Jerry Lynn Hilburn escaped from J.O. Davis Correctional Center in Atmore on Monday…
The Montgomery Police Department has made an arrest in the Wednesday, Oct. 5, shooting death of 41-year- old Tyler Sasser of Montgomery. MPD detectives charged Rodrick Senderson Jr., 22, of Montgomery with one count of murder. Senderson was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals. Following his arrest, he was transported to the Montgomery County Detention Facility, where he was being held under a $300,000 bond. On Oct. 5 at about…
A murder leaves one dead in Greenville Sunday. Police found a 58 year old man shot in the front yard of a Whittaker street home around 2 p.m. The man was pronounced dead on the scene. Officers were able to…
The Justice Department announced today that it has opened a statewide investigation into the conditions in Alabama’s prisons for men. The investigation will focus on whether prisoners are adequately protected from physical harm and sexual abuse at the hands of…
Zedarius Briggs, 19, of Montgomery was taken into custody and transported to the Montgomery County Jail. Briggs was being held for outstanding warrants with the Montgomery Sheriff’s Department for Robbery, Receiving Stolen property 1st and Reckless Endangerment when he fled from…
