Dozens of Calhoun County residents, accused of crimes but never convicted, have been able to get their criminal records cleared under a 2014 law that allows those records to be expunged, according numbers from the Calhoun County Circuit Clerk’s office. Read the full story
Had Elijah Martin lived he would be 3 years old now, but on May 8, 2016, Elijah’s life was cut short when he was 7 months old. Read the full story
A three-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon on Golden Springs Road caused no deaths or major injuries, police said. Read the full story
Someone may have thrown a dog off of bridge near the intersection of Gurnee Avenue and Alabama 202 in Anniston Tuesday, according to a police report. Read the full story
Had Elijah Martin lived he would be 3 years old now, but on May 8, 2016, Elijah’s life was cut short when he was 7 months old.
A three-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon on Golden Springs Road caused no deaths or major injuries, police said.
Someone may have thrown a dog off of bridge near the intersection of Gurnee Avenue and Alabama 202 in Anniston Tuesday, according to a police report.
A couple in their 70s who attended Banks High School in Birmingham and later Jacksonville State University are the victims of a homicide at the scene of their swimming pool business in Denham Springs, La.
An Anniston man reported an assault Thursday after an acquaintance allegedly tried to run him over, according to a police report.
Reports of a driver weaving on Greenbrier Dear Road led to the arrest of a Munford man on felony drug charges Wednesday, according to police reports.
More than 40 pastors, elected officials, nonprofit volunteers, business people and community members gathered at a Lenlock church Tuesday to talk about how they could help stanch some of the violence happening among young people in Anniston.
An unusually large crowd showed up Tuesday night at the Heflin City Council meeting to pay tribute to a former city police officer injured in the line of duty. Former Heflin Police assistant chief Jackie Stovall walked into City Hall with the aid of crutches Tuesday night and was greeted with hugs from friends and well-wishers.
A fire destroyed a house in Blue Mountain Saturday, and police say they expect similar blazes as the weather turns colder. “It comes with the season,” said Anniston police Sgt. Kyle Price.
Raul Humberto Companioni, 44 and Puebla Anyileidys, 33, both of Miami, face multiple felony charges of encoded data fraud, Oxford Police Capt. L.G. Owens said.
Anniston police Sgt. Kyle Price on Wednesday said the suspect entered a Texaco store on U.S. 431 at 6:45 p.m. Monday with a gun and left with $500 in cash. The man left in an unidentified car, described as “dark in color” in an Anniston police report filed Monday at 10 p.m.
Dylan Brett Martin, 23, got into a verbal argument with a man over a bottle of vodka at a party at Martin’s home Saturday night, Calhoun County Sheriff Matthew Wade said Wednesday. The man, unnamed by the sheriff, got drunk at the party, so party-goers hid the man’s bottle of vodka in the house, the sheriff said.
Anniston police Sgt. Kyle Price on Wednesday said a 30-year-old Lincoln man was charged Tuesday night with domestic violence by strangulation. According to the sergeant, the charge followed a physical altercation between the man and his 19-year-old girlfriend of Anniston, at her Willow Pointe Drive home.
Piedmont officials say reports of an active shooter at a marching band competition were based on a child that had a toy gun at the event Saturday.
Oxford and Heflin police say a Calvert man faces numerous felony charges after he led them on a high-speed car chase Wednesday night in which he attempted to run over two officers and two pedestrians.
Alabama’s high court fees are forcing low-level criminal offenders to give up necessities once they're out of jail to make ends meet — and in some cases even driving them to more crime — according to a survey conducted by a coalition of advocacy groups.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Jon Garlick led the training, providing attendees with proactive cautions and courses of action when involved in a shooting. Garlick highlighted three critical responses: run, hide or fight.
Camron Watkins, 18, is charged with violating a federal law barring the carrying of firearms in school zones, according to a news release emailed Friday by the U.S. attorney’s office in Birmingham.
Anniston police Wednesday night charged six people in connection to a shooting that damaged a school bus and a a weekend shooting on Rocky Hollow Road.
A school bus was struck by gunfire in a shootout on South Noble Street this afternoon, police said. No children were on the bus, and the driver was unhurt.
A 17-year-old boy was recovering Monday after being shot at an Anniston home Sunday, police said.
Police and deputies chased a fleeing driver down Alabama 21 south from Jacksonville on Friday afternoon until the man turned onto Anniston Beach Road and crashed, authorities said.
Harry Lamont Leonard, 50, of Anniston was arrested about a block from Wells Fargo’s Oxford branch, according to Oxford police, shortly after the bank had been robbed.
The commission included the pay raise in its approximately $18.5 million, 2019 fiscal year general fund budget. The increase comes after Sheriff Matthew Wade raised concerns in recent months that he couldn’t recruit enough corrections officers to oversee inmates because the starting pay was too low.
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