Law enforcement leaders of the past and present were in Tuscaloosa Thursday afternoon to celebrate the completion and opening of a new state-of-the-art hub for the sheriff's office.
Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ron Abernathy recognized a trio of citizens who went above and beyond to help one of his deputies who was in a dangerous struggle with an alleged burglary suspect last month.
Duncanville Middle School was briefly placed on lockdown Thursday afternoon, but fortunately, police did not find a firearm or any other threat to public safety when they responded.
Two juvenile students at Hillcrest High School have been charged with multiple felonies after they brought a firearm and a loaded magazine on campus Wednesday morning.
A Northport man has been charged with a pair of felonies after police allegedly found him passed out in a Publix parking lot with a homemade bomb in his vehicle.
A Cottondale man is dead after he allegedly shot himself when police began to investigate allegations of sex crimes made against him, the Thread has learned.