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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — A former Jefferson County deputy has filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Mark Pettway, claiming he was wrongfully terminated and retaliated against. According to the lawsuit filed by Jude Washington, who is a candidate for Sheriff in 2026, he was unjustly terminated by the JCSO in January...

A 24-year-old man was injured in an early-morning shooting Saturday in the Polo Downs neighborhood of Chelsea, according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. Shelby 911 received a call reporting a person shot at 12:06 a.m. on Saturday, January 17, 2026. Deputies responded to the scene and found the man suffering...

The Meat Depot by Food Giant in Birmingham’s Five Points West neighborhood has reopened. Longtime conservationist. Former Executive Director at the Alabama Environmental Council and Wild South. Publisher of the Bama Environmental News for more than 18 years. Career highlights include playing an active role in the...

BESSEMER, Ala. — An Amazon employee was shot and killed Sunday night in the parking lot of an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, according to the Bessemer Police Department. Officers were dispatched to the Amazon Warehouse at 975 Powder Plant Road around 10:40 p.m. on Jan. 18, 2026, after...

Urban Cookhouse—the local restaurant chain founded in 2010 by David and Andrea Snyder—is opening a brand-new location in Hoover’s Stadium Trace Village today. The brand is marking the debut of its fifth Birmingham-area restaurant with a week-long lineup of special activities and giveaways, and will open its doors at...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A concert was held Sunday to celebrate the life of Yasmine Wright, the 16-year-old girl who was shot and killed after being hit by stray bullet in 2022. Sunday would have been Yasmine Wright’s 21st birthday, and her mother, Janice Wright, says she wants to keep her memory alive. She says […]

LIPSCOMB, Ala. (WBMA) — A 29-year-old man was killed in a shooting Sunday evening in Lipscomb, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were called to the 6600 block of Avenue K around 6:44 p.m. on Jan. 18, 2026, to investigate a report of a person who had been shot. When deputies arrived, they...

BESSEMER, Ala. (WBRC) - A man is dead after a shooting at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Bessemer Sunday night. Tyler Neil Alexander, 19, of Birmingham, was pronounced dead on the scene just after 11 p.m. at Bessemer’s Amazon facility on Powder Plant Road. The shooting happened at 10:40...

There’s something magical happening in Irondale, and it involves smoke, meat, and decades of tradition. Golden Rule Bar-B-Q stands as a monument to what happens when simple food is done extraordinarily well. The aroma hits you first—a heavenly cloud of hickory smoke that wraps around you like a warm...

Two women were killed and three children were injured after a minivan was struck by a freight train in Birmingham, Alabama, early Friday, Jan. 16. Carolyn Elaine Berry, 47, and Aldereka Laqulla Ikes, 36, were traveling with four children when the crash happened around 1:46 a.m., according to the Jefferson County...