Tag: BIRMINGHAM

According to the casting notice posted by Mobile-based Goleman Casting, LLC, “Sundown Town” follows a group of “black college friends who take a wrong turn into a racially hostile town where local myths turn terrifyingly real.”

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the arrests of more than 30 illegal aliens from two manufacturing plants in the Birmingham area.

AI cloud company Nebius Inc. said economic incentives were a “key factor” in choosing Birmingham’s Oxmoor Valley for its new data center, despite Mayor Randall Woodfin claiming no incentives were offered.

The suspect in the August 2025 shooting death of Parker High School coach Demetrice Beverly will spend 120 months behind bars in a federal case tied to the murder.

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified an inmate found dead in his cell on Thursday afternoon.

The results are in, and according to a new survey Birmingham-Hoover is the top place in the country for college graduates to land a job.

The U.S. military identified all six of the service members killed last week in a KC-135 aircraft crash in western Iraq.

During a recent interview with "Alabama's Morning News with JT," U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) praised Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte's announcement that Fannie Mae’s offices would be relocating from California to Birmingham.

Eric Hall, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Birmingham, was arrested Tuesday by the Birmingham Police Department.

Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte is moving Fannie Mae’s offices from California to Birmingham.

The Jefferson County Coroner identified a man who died at UAB Hospital following a crash on Wednesday.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a robbery attempt and shooting that occurred Saturday morning in Birmingham.

The city of Birmingham will have $1 million on hand to launch an emergency food relief fund as the federal government shutdown continues, according to Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin.

The results of Tuesday's run-off election for Birmingham City Council and Birmingham School Board favored incumbents, except for J.T. Moore, who was defeated. BLM co-founder Eric Hall, who previously lost a bid for city council, was defeated by the largest margin of any candidate in the run-off election.

Is another data center coming to Alabama? It seems likely as a company with ties to Nebius Inc., part of Nebius Group N.V., who already operates several across the U.S. buying over 79 acres in Birmingham.

State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) addressed the possibility of President Donald Trump deploying the National Guard to Birmingham to fight the city's high crime rate during a conversation earlier this week on WVNN's "The Dale Jackson Show."

In a settlement announced today by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), P.F. Chang’s has agreed to pay a man $80,000 and retrain their employees on religious accommodations after denying him a job based on his request to have Sundays off based on his religious beliefs.

According to an announcement, Birmingham's Alabama Theatre will be hosting "A Conversation with Kamala Harris" on October 17, in which the failed presidential candidate "will share what she saw, what she learned, and what it will take to move forward" after losing the Electoral College 312-226.

On Thursday, Birmingham mayoral candidate State Rep. Juandalynn Givan (D-Birmingham) weighed in on the shooting of Jabari Peoples by a Homewood Police officer, which the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office deemed a "justified" shooting because he had a gun.

Last September, Mountain Brook residents found themselves in a fight for their future against a developer secretly planning to build a 55-unit high-density rental development in the center of their community. That developer is now running for Mountain Brook City Council.

Kela Stanford, 54, the contract driver for the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR), has been charged with a Class B felony over a week after she allegedly returned home with a three-year-old boy after a scheduled visitation with his biological father and left him to die in the hot car.

“We will shut Homewood down for justice,” Black Lives Matter (BLM) Birmingham’s Wayne Taft Harris, Jr. said during a city council meeting.

A three-year-old Bessemer boy died on Tuesday while in custody of a contractor with the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) after being left alone in a hot vehicle for nearly five hours.

Birmingham is hosting the 2025 World Police and Fire Games, also known as the games of heroes.

A federal grand jury in Birmingham has charged nine individuals with immigration crimes, primarily for reentering the United States after previously being deported, with one charged with possession of a firearm.

The waning days of the Birmingham Water Works Board were marred by several last-ditch efforts by those in control to retain their power and avert the legislature's efforts to reform and restructure the board.

Earlier this week, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin unveiled his proposed 2026 budget proposal. The budget proposal is $591 million which is up $9 million from last years budet.