Birmingham AL

Samford University has fresh bragging rights after being named among the most beautiful college campuses in the country by U.S. News & World Report. The university located in Homewood is the only Alabama institution on the list of 35. U.S. News writers highlighted Samford’s Reconciliation Memorial, stainless-steel...

Following an unexpected announcement from the Clay-Pinson Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, March 17, that it would restructure and stop hosting the annual Alabama Butterbean Festival—a move members blamed on new city leadership withdrawing funding in Clay and Pinson—Pinson Mayor Hoyt Sanders said Thursday that the...

34-year-old Corey Washington has been arrested for second degree assault and first degree robbery. The Birmingham resident allegedly robbed an unspecified place in the 200 block of Oporto Madrid Boulevard on March 14. Washington was taken into custody five days later on Thursday, March 19, by the Birmingham Police...

People in Birmingham go crazy for a big, juicy burger, especially when it’s made with fresh ingredients and piled high with extravagant toppings. If we need two hands to hold the yummy sandwich, all the better. Add the appropriate side dish — say, a basket of crisp fries or onion rings — and we’re happy to dig in.

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (WBRC) - A jury has found Ibraheem Yazeed guilty of murder and felony murder for the 2019 death of Homewood native, Aniah Blanchard. Both murder and felony murder are lesser charges than the capital murder kidnapping and capital murder robbery the state asked the jury to convict on.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A student at the University of Alabama who had gone missing while on holiday in Barcelona, Spain earlier this week has been found dead. Police have confirmed that the body recovered in the water Thursday was James Paul Gracey, who was last seen at a nightclub on the beach early Tuesday […]

31-year-old Nyia Fair has been arrested after allegedly firing a gun into an occupied building. The Birmingham Police Department (BPD) responded to a shooting in the 500 block of 60th Street South on Sunday, March 1. They've brought her into custody two and a half weeks later, on March 19.

An Alabama jury convicted a man in connection with the death of a female truck driver in the Birmingham area in 2020. On March 18, 2026, Charles Levester Gipson, 44, was convicted on a charge of manslaughter in the death of truck driver Christine Summers, 53. He was also convicted of assaulting two police officers...

The recent sale of a Mountain Brook home in Sherwood Forest is among several homes that sold last week for more than $1 million. Originally listed for $1,849,000, the 2.3-acre property at 3020 Woodleigh Road closed at a staggering $2,410,000 — a $561,000 premium over asking — after just two days on the market.

At Birmingham, Alabama’s recently opened High Dive HiFi Lounge, the chef and vinyl record aficionado Sean Brock created a menu to echo listening lounges’ Japanese roots; the concept became popular there during the 1920s. Miso-caramel lattes, pork katsu milk-bread sandwiches, and panko-crusted, deep-fried deviled eggs...