From Tribune Staff Reports LEEDS, Ala. — A Leeds man is being held in the Jefferson County Jail on a $1.8 million bond after being charged with numerous felony offenses involving the alleged... Read more
From Tribune Staff Reports BLOUNT COUNTY, Ala. — A Blount County jury has convicted 38-year-old Christopher Don Parker, of Oneonta, of first-degree rape and sexual abuse of a child under 12,... Read more
From Tribune Staff Reports BLOUNT COUNTY, Ala — A Blount County man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault, torture, and abuse i... Read more
From Tribune Staff Reports ODENVILLE, Ala. — Tyler Patrick Easter, 22, an instructional aide at Odenville Middle School, was arrested for solicitation of a sex act with a student under the a... Read more
By Erica Thomas, managing editor BIRMINGHAM — A Jefferson County grand jury indicted a man on charges of rape first-degree, sodomy with a boy first-degree, sex abuse of a male first-degree a... Read more
From The Tribune staff reports LOXLEY, Ala. — South Alabama authorities arrested two people after police said they found two abused children in a truck stop parking lot. Alex-Vasile Busuioc,... Read more
From The Tribune staff reports HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Hattiesburg Police are investigating after a woman was seen on video hitting a three-week-old infant. Quentasha Portis, 19, is charged wit... Read more
HUNTSVILLE ,Ala. (AP) — The drummer for Grammy Award-winning rock band Alabama Shakes says he is innocent of child abuse charges filed against him, his lawyer said Friday. Steven William Joh... Read more
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — The drummer for Grammy Award-winning rock band Alabama Shakes is in custody on child abuse charges. Steven William Johnson, 35, was arrested Wednesday after being ind... Read more
From The Tribune staff reports CULLMAN — A Cullman man is in custody for allegedly hitting and kicking a small child. William Richard Mebius, 27, was arrested Sunday and faces charges of to... Read more