Crime

By Carol Robinson  The husband of a Lipscomb city council member is charged with shooting a neighbor’s dog midday Friday. Officers were on routine patrol when they were flagged down at the intersection of Avenue K […]

By Heather Gann TikTok personality Amy Dianne Elmore Downs, 57, of Athens, also known as Slot_7.0 or Slot machine queen, was arrested Wednesday for seven counts of Charitable Fraud 1st Degree and three counts of Tax […]

By Howard Koplowitz  A south Alabama woman suspected of abducting her three children as they waited for a bus in Virginia was captured Thursday after a brief chase near Birmingham, authorities said. Shanice Chante Davison, 35, […]

By Patrick Darrington  Authorities on Wednesday found the boat 7-year-old Hunter Slezak was in when he, his father and another man disappeared during a shrimping trip off Dauphin Island, said Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch. As […]

By Carol Robinson An Alabama man accused in the July 18 shooting deaths of his wife and four children – including two of his own – admitted the slayings to investigators shortly after the massacre. “He said the […]

By Carol Robinson  A 20-year-old Jefferson County mother has been charged in the death of her young son. Kayla Mariah Nash is charged with felony murder and aggravated child abuse, according to court records made public […]

By Carol Robinson The shooting of a 3-year-old boy Sunday in a Birmingham apartment appears to be self-inflicted, police said Monday. Birmingham police initially reported that it appeared shots fired from outside the residence at Forest Hills Village […]