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Bulls Host Two-Time Defending Champions in Search of First Win
PELHAM, Ala. — The Birmingham Bulls are still looking for their first win of the season, and the SPHL is not easing them into the schedule. The Bulls host the Evansville Thunderbolts on Friday night at the Pelham Civic Complex, facing the league’s two-time defending Presidents Cup champions in just their second game of the…
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Former Southern Miss Receiver Charged With Capital Murder
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A former Southern Miss wide receiver from Adamsville has been charged with capital murder in a June shooting in Birmingham, police said. Jaylond Adams, 28, was arrested Thursday in the 400 block of Green Springs Highway and charged with capital murder and first-degree robbery in the June 18 death of Cornelius Parker,…
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UAB Opens $192 Million Shelby Biosciences Research Building
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The University of Alabama at Birmingham opened its $192 million Shelby Biosciences Research Building on Oct. 20, adding laboratory space for biomedical and behavioral research and room to recruit as many as 80 additional researchers. The eight-story, 228,735-square-foot facility brings together researchers from UAB’s Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine and the…
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Gunfire, a Fleeing Pickup and a Death: Carbon Hill Home Invasion Suspect Taken Into Custody
CARBON HILL, Ala. — A kicked-in door, a burst of gunfire and a fleeing pickup truck left one woman dead and police searching for her alleged accomplice after a reported home invasion in Carbon Hill. Authorities later took Dustin Patrick Tucker, 38, into custody, police said. Tucker was taken into custody Oct. 16, two days…
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Birmingham and Trussville Pick Designer for $150M Crossing Project
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Birmingham and Trussville took the first concrete step Monday toward unclogging one of the region’s most maddening choke points: the rail corridor between Woodlawn and Trussville. At an event at Sloss Furnaces, the two cities announced that engineering firm Kimley-Horn will lead the design and environmental review of REDESIGN Alabama, a project…
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Ivey Commutes Toforest Johnson’s Death Sentence After Decades of Questions About Conviction
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Gov. Kay Ivey commuted Toforest Johnson’s death sentence Tuesday to life in prison without parole, sparing the longtime Alabama inmate from execution in a case that has drawn scrutiny from prosecutors, former judges and celebrity supporters over the reliability of his conviction. Johnson, 53, was sentenced to death in 1998 for the…
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