Multiple calls by 1819 News to Scofield for confirmation and further questioning have gone unanswered, and several messages, unreturned.
After Jefferson County Sheriff Mark Pettway told a local news station about ongoing negotiations with Birmingham-area municipalities to open a regional jail, Jefferson County Commission president Jimmie Stephens said that the Commission, not the sheriff, must seal the deal.
Former band members from Sylacauga High School will gather on October 25 to recognize their band directors. For 75 years, one family supplied all the band directors – Fess Simpkins, Buddy Simpkins and David Simpkins.
The city of Gulf Shores announced Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville will be part of a new development in the city. The restaurant will be in the Legendary Marina & Yacht Club.
DHR Commissioner Nancy Buckner is asking the court to move a civil case to Montgomery County.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) vowed in a video statement released to X on Saturday to keep American taxpayer dollars from facilitating terrorism.
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) recently joined several Senate colleagues at a press conference from Tel Aviv during a visit in the wake of the recent violence that has rocked the region.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a Montgomery-based far-left activist organization, sent a delegation to Geneva, Switzerland, to make recommendations to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC).
A second former employee of WTVM in Columbus, Georgia, is in a legal battle with the television station’s parent company, after being fired for not getting the COVID vaccine.
The Lieutenant Governor’s Commission on 21st Century Workforce met Wednesday in Birmingham to prepare recommendations to transform Alabama’s current workforce development initiatives.
An unnamed female staffer for U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) was robbed and carjacked at gunpoint on Thursday night in Washington D.C.
Despite the hold placed by State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Josephine), the ultimate price tag on the route, which would complete a four-lane corridor between Mobile and Tuscaloosa, remains an unknown.
Governor Kay Ivey announced Friday that Alabama’s Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield will be leaving the officeafter serving 12 years in the office.
The active Greek community of South Alabama shows off this week.
Alabama Department of Transportation contracts held up by legislators in September over a dispute involving the financing and wisdom of the West Alabama Corridor project will move forward next week.
The 1819 News team came together on October 18 to celebrate being in business across the state of Alabama for two years.
Activists gathered at the North Shelby County Library on Thursday night to praise the library board members for keeping an LGBTQ display in the children’s section in June after backlash from residents who felt it was inappropriate for kids.
Governor Kay Ivey and State Treasurer Young Boozer recently announced that the state would increase its investment into Israeli bond holdings as the country is currently embroiled in conflict.
Two former Alabama basketball players were recently named in a wrongful death lawsuit in the death of 23-year-old Jamea Jonae Harris, who was shot dead in January
Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced on Friday that the state’s labor force participation rate remained unchanged in September at 57%.
The band features an eclectic mix of big band music, jazz vocal arrangements, patriotic songs, and instrumentals.
Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) will likely shut down at the end of the semester absent a court order forcing Alabama State Treasurer Young Boozer to issue the private school a $30 million state loan.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) recently cosponsored legislation to redirect aid funds intended for the Palestinians in Gaza and use it to replenish Israel’s now depleted “Iron Dome” missile defense system.
A blue marlin caught off the Orange Beach coast Thursday morning could break the record for the largest caught in Alabama and the Gulf of Mexico.
A rite of passage is the changing of location for the annual “Meeting of the Minds,” the national gathering of members of Parrot Head clubs. For 28 years, it has met in New Orleans and then Key West. Not anymore. It will now meet on Alabama’s Gulf Coast in Gulf Shores.
The massive project is just the most recent step in the township's decades-long expansion.