Crime

By Carol Robinson  A recent Miles College summa cum laude graduate was flown back to the U.S. Wednesday after she was critically injured while on a celebratory Carnival Cruise with her longtime best friend. On Monday, […]

By Carol Robinson Authorities have released the names of a man and woman found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in a south Birmingham extended stay motel room. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on Monday identified the […]

BlackNews.com Nationwide — Tyler Chase Butler, a 27-year-old African American man from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, has been charged with murder after fatally shooting 18-year-old Michael Bosworth Jr., a white high school senior who was in his […]

By William Thornton A Marshall County man faces two charges of aggravated child abuse after authorities say he beat a child with a cattle prod. Michael Robert Taylor, 67, of Albertville, was arrested last Thursday. He […]

BlackNews.com Nationwide — Legendary Motown singer and producer Smokey Robinson is facing serious allegations of sexual misconduct from four former employees, adding his name to a growing list of prominent Black male celebrities recently accused of […]

ByJoseph D. Bryant A truck driver is under arrest after being accused of causing a series of crashes that killed a man and injured another just outside Athens in Limestone County. John W. McAdams, 31, […]

By Carol Robinson A suspect has been charged in last month’s broad daylight rape of a woman in a Montgomery park. Corrace Calloway, 41, was taken into custody overnight when police responded to a report of […]

By Carol Robinson  A Jefferson County man with a lengthy criminal history has been sentenced to prison for soliciting the murder of federal prosecutor in Birmingham. A judge on Friday sentenced Michael Roman Black, 32, to […]

A second suspect has been charged in a 2022 Montgomery shooting that left a 3-year-old boy dead. Montgomery police on Monday announced the arrest of 27-year-old Kourtney Tyrone Brisker. Brisker, taken into custody May 1, […]