A Jefferson County Jail employee has been arrested on two felony charges. Laquesha Rene Green, 35, is charged with use of position for personal gain and promoting prison contraband, according to court ...

Alabama is witnessing a significant reduction in opioid overdose deaths, with the number of fatalities across the state ...

The federal trial of a Jefferson County man indicted on multiple narcotics distribution counts ended in a mistrial and a ...

Two related federal indictments charging 19 people in a Jefferson County drug trafficking conspiracy have been unsealed, U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona announced Wednesday.

An arrest has been made in the Bessemer Division of Jefferson County after a man was charged in connection to a kidnapping ...

The judge who ruled that Charles Bediako can immediately play basketball again for Alabama is listed as a University of Alabama athletics donor on The Crimson Tide Foundation’s website. Tuscaloosa ...

A Hanceville, Alabama, police dispatcher stole drugs from an evidence locker and overdosed on the job. His death exposed such corruption in the police force that officers were indicted and the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man who is charged with several drug crimes Tuesday. According to the JCSO, it executed arrest warrants for Vernon Lamont ...

Sheriffs are constitutional officers and while their salaries are paid by the county in which they serve, their salaries are ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office arrested two suspected drug dealers in separate cases over the past week, seizing large quantities of narcotics and a stolen firearm during ...

The indictments include special grand jury findings regarding the amount of methamphetamine and fentanyl attributable to various defendants as part of the drug-trafficking conspiracies.