By LAURAN NEERGAARD and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared that a widespread U.S. outbreak of the new respiratory virus sweeping the g... Read more
Jerome Preston Pritchett, age 80 of Springville passed away on February 24, 2020. He was born in Jefferson County, Alabama and grew up in the Birmingham area. He served in the United States... Read more
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A 66-year-old man has been sentenced to nearly 200 years in prison for sexually assaulting a young girl in Elmore County. Dennis Long received a 198-year sentence from Cir... Read more
By the Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Two Alabama legislative committees approved a bill Wednesday that would ban gender therapies for minors such as prescription hormones or gender rea... Read more
By Joshua Huff, sports editor BIRMINGHAM — The Center Point boys’ basketball team weathered a late Ramsay fourth-quarter run on Wednesday to hold off the Rams, 57-54, and book its retu... Read more
By Michael Calhoun, sports intern BIRMINGHAM – The Center Point girls’ basketball team was defeated by Charles Henderson, 68-28, behind a stellar defensive effort that held the Eagles to jus... Read more
By Joshua Huff, sports editor The ESPN football recruiting 2021 high school player rankings were unveiled recently and a couple of local players have found their way into the list of the top... Read more
From The Trussville Tribune staff reports BESSEMER — Police in Bessemer are trying to determine what happened to a woman whose body was found 15 feet (5 meters) below ground in a sewer manho... Read more
By the Associated Press CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) — A longtime Alabama judge who retired after being accused of wrongly sending court work to his son has been convicted on multiple judicial ethics... Read more
Amy Elizabeth Turner Lofton, age 90, passed away on February 23, 2020 in Birmingham, Al., the youngest of eight children born to John Thomas Horton and Nora Groom Horton. She was a devoted f... Read more