Crime and Courts

Authorities are trying to locate two different drivers from separate incidents involving a police chase. The two police chases happened within a half hour of each other and both involved Exit 76 off Interstate 20/59. Tuscaloosa Police say that both of these vehicle pursuits were stopped by officers who felt that the public would be at risk if the pursuits continued.

Justin Ross Harris of Tuscaloosa will not be retried for the 2014 death of his 22-month-old son, according to the Cobb County District Attorney.

Defense attorneys are seeking to subpoena four witnesses for a second hearing in the Jamea Harris capital murder case later this month.

A 79-year-old man from Bankston was found guilty of attempted murder this week relating to a 2021 shooting.

The sentencing phase for Koran Lewis, the third suspect convicted in the 2017 murder of Jennifer Nevin, is taking place this week in Tuscaloosa.

The prison sentences for two of five defendants in a 2018 Fayette County double murder were announced Tuesday morning.

A Tuscaloosa man described as a career criminal has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for trafficking crack cocaine while armed with a firearm.

Tuscaloosa Police arrested a second suspect in the Spades Restaurant and Lounge shooting that left a man critically injured in late July.

A Pickens County jailer was arrested on multiple counts of custodial sexual abuse, according to a release from the 24th Judicial Circuit District of Alabama.

Two suspects remain at-large in a robbery that took place last week at a local hotel where a seven-week-old puppy was taken.