Birmingham AL

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WBMA) — The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed an EF-0 tornado touched down in western Jefferson County as severe storms moved across Central Alabama Monday evening. According to the National Weather Service Birmingham, a cluster of severe thunderstorms moved southeast across the region...

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was in town Monday to speak with Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and community members. Conversations were centered around jobs, infrastructure and how federal money should be spent. Some of that money is tied to a project in the city along Fourth Avenue North....

UAB Hospital is now the 5th largest hospital in the U.S., according to a survey by leading digital healthcare information platform Becker’s Hospital Review. The flagship hospital of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System moved up three spots from last year’s national ranking. UAB is growing.

BESSEMER, Ala. (WBRC) - A woman has been charged with murder after she allegedly stabbed a Hoover man, leading to his death. The stabbing took place in the 3100 block of Avenue B just before 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4. According to police, Darius Montreal Boglin, 45, was stabbed...

After months of waiting, chicken-finger fans finally got their Raising Cane’s fix at the restaurant’s grand opening Tuesday, March 10. This makes Alabama’s third Cane’s location and first in the Birmingham area. The lightning storm was not enough to keep customers away from the new location...

BESSEMER, Ala. (WBRC) - Powerful storms during Monday’s First Alert Weather Day caused major damage in Bessemer after a massive tree crashed onto a home where a mother and her four children live. The family was not inside at the time, but the close call left them shaken. The...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WBMA) - The National Weather Service in Birmingham will conduct storm surveys Tuesday in Winston, Tuscaloosa and Jefferson counties following severe thunderstorms that moved through Central Alabama on Monday, March 9. The surveys will help determine whether any tornadoes touched down and...

A Jefferson County man will spend more than two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegally possessing a firearm. Acting U.S. Attorney Catherine L. Crosby announced that Jerrell Demichael Dunson, 47, of Birmingham, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Anna M. Manasco...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office has requested the public’s help in finding family members of two men who died in the past two weeks. William Keith Brannon, 58, was pronounced dead the morning of Feb. 24. According to the coroner’s office, the Tarrant man suddenly became unresponsive...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Strong storms moved across central Alabama Monday night, bringing down limbs, trees and power lines. In Jefferson County, 1,110 Alabama Power customers are without power as of 10:16 a.m. Tuesday, accounting for more than half of the 1,941 outages across the company’s service area. In...