updated Sat. August 24, 2024
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AL.com
March 13, 2018
Satura Dudley, a senior at Alabama's Hoover High school, wanted to do something to honor the 17 lives of students and faculty cut short by gun violence at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. Initially, Dudley said, she wanted to rally students at Alabama's largest highÃâà...
AL.com
March 13, 2018
Allen Farley, R-McCalla, who served for seven years as a school resource officer in Jefferson County, said he brought education and law enforcement officials together with legislative leadership to hear their thoughts on how lawmakers can best help keep schools and students safe. House Speaker MacÃâà...
AL.com
March 13, 2018
Meanwhile, Jefferson County determined the rail yard Big Sky was using for the unloading was not zoned for that activity and a judge allowed them to enforce that zoning ordinance over objections from the company that owns the rail yard. The unloading then moved to a rail yard further away in the WalkerÃâà...
AL.com
March 13, 2018
The shooting happened at 9:40 a.m. Morris and Warrior police, as well as firefighters and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a person shot. When they arrived at the scene - at Rolling Hills mobile home community off of Morris Majestic Road - the man was dead in the grass outsideÃâà...
AL.com
March 13, 2018
Three people were killed in two separate traffic crashes in Jefferson County over the weekend. One of the fatal wrecks happened Saturday afternoon, the other on Sunday night. The Jefferson County Coroner's Office on Monday identified the victims as Joshua Franklin Wood, 23, Samuel Jeremy Kennedy,Ãâà...
AL.com
March 10, 2018
A bill to impose a 3 percent tax on car leases and rentals in Jefferson County to help build a stadium and make other improvements at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex has marched steadily through the Alabama Legislature but hasn't reached the finish line. Rep. John Rogers, D-Birmingham,Ãâà...
AL.com
March 8, 2018
Former Jefferson County District Attorney Charles Todd Henderson after he was sentenced March 8, 2018 for his first degree perjury conviction. ... The prosecutors with the Alabama Attorney General's Office said in its brief that Henderson should serve at least six months in prison for his conviction on aÃâà...
Birmingham Business Journal
March 7, 2018
A bill that would activate a dormant car rental tax in Jefferson County to fund upgrades to the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex and new stadium at the BJCC earned a key victory in the Alabama Legislature on Wednesday. The Jefferson County delegation in the Alabama House approved the billÃâà...
The Atlantic
February 28, 2018
But earlier this month, as part of a twisting, turning school-desegregation saga in Alabama's Jefferson County, Judge Pryor struck a strange blow on behalf of integrated schools. In an appellate decision, he forbade a heavily white city from breaking away from a diverse district and running its own separateÃâà...
AL.com
February 28, 2018
The number of drug overdose deaths rose slightly in Jefferson County in 2017, but the increase was not as dramatic as it was in previous years. Heroin and fentanyl deaths saw a small decline, while methamphetamine and cocaine deaths climbed. There was a significant decrease in prescription opioidÃâà...
AL.com
February 28, 2018
Hogeland said Wednesday he hopes the funds collected from the tax can go to Jefferson County Schools to benefit the schools in Gardendale. "There is a legal ... In the 11th Circuit's opinion, written by Judge William Pryor, a former Alabama Attorney General, the court took issue with Haikala's split ruling.
WIAT 42
February 21, 2018
Latty is still at large and police are asking the public to contact police in Jefferson County if you see him. Latty is wanted in Bessemer on several criminal charges. Pike County Sheriff Russell Thomas says the suspect should be considered armed and dangerous. "Well, he has already shown how dangerousÃâà...
AL.com
February 21, 2018
Since then, authorities throughout Alabama have responded to multiple reports of threats similar in nature. Over the weekend, sheriff's investigators and Irondale police were made aware of a rumored threat of violence at Shades Valley High School. Parents on Saturday provided police with copies ofÃâà...
AL.com
February 20, 2018
Big Sky had been using a small rail spur in unincorporated Jefferson County to transfer the containers of sludge from the train cars to trucks and drive them to the landfill. However, after numerous complaints from nearby residents, Jefferson County determined the operation violated the county's zoning laws.
WTXL ABC 27
December 31, 1999
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) - The Florida Highway Patrol arrested an Alabama man after finding drugs during a stop for a traffic violation. Taylor Schaub, 19, of Northport, AL, was arrested about 8 p.m. Monday, troopers said in a news release. During the traffic stop on I-10, about mile marker 230Ãâà...
