Crime and Courts

A Tuscaloosa man has been charged with murder after investigators say surveillance footage, witness accounts and physical evidence placed him at the scene of a brutal killing at Brookhaven Apartments last week.

Police and investigators with the Violent Crimes Unit are on the scene of a suspected homicide at an apartment complex in Tuscaloosa.

A lower court said it lacked the authority to weigh in. Now the Alabama Supreme Court is being asked to move fast on a residency challenge that won't go away.

A Texas man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for smuggling cocaine along Interstate 20/59 in Greene County after a 2023 traffic stop saw narcotics agents discover the drugs hidden inside hollowed-out vehicle batteries.

A phone call on Christmas Eve ended up being the thing that saved a woman's life in a Tuscaloosa parking lot.

The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office is launching a new program aimed at giving teenagers a firsthand look at law enforcement and public service.

A Pickens County man has been charged with capital murder after investigators say he killed a man and woman at a home in Reform before dawn Sunday, then was caught nearby during a burglary in progress.

Police are on the scene of a shooting at a gas station on Highway 69 South in Tuscaloosa County.

Investigators have a suspect in custody after the double homicide of a man and woman in northern Pickens County Saturday night and Sunday morning.

AI fraud is hitting North and Central Alabama hard — and the tactics scammers are using now are more convincing than most people realize.