Crime and Courts

A Tuscaloosa County Commissioner who has served in that role for nearly 30 years was charged criminally on Wednesday in the aftermath of an altercation with a school resource officer yesterday morning.

In a town of just 2,644 residents, every vote counts—and now, the fate of Centreville’s leadership hangs in the balance of a lawsuit.

A county official was held on the ground, handcuffed, and threatened with a Taser during a struggle with a Tuscaloosa Police school resource officer on Tuesday morning.

Police are asking for help locating a person of interest after a man was found dead in an abandoned home in Tuscaloosa County early Monday morning.

A spokesperson for three Tuscaloosa-area massage parlors that were raided in a human trafficking investigation last week said no one who was working there is an illegal immigrant.

Investigators have charged a man with first-degree rape more than 15 years after he and another man allegedly assaulted a woman they met at a club in Tuscaloosa, thanks to a DNA match from a state lab.

A lengthy human trafficking investigation led to three raids, one arrest and the discovery of nine immigrants living in Tuscaloosa area massage parlors on Thursday, area police report.

Police in the Tuscaloosa area are raiding a trio of massage parlors at the end of a lengthy investigation into alleged human trafficking and prostitution.

Investigators in Tuscaloosa have released the identity of a 38-year-old Hale County man who died Wednesday morning in a gunfight with a Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's deputy after a multi-county chase.

A person was fatally shot in a predawn gunfight with sheriff's deputies in Northport on Wednesday morning after fleeing from other police in Hale County.