BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Two women are dead and four juveniles are recovering after a minivan they were riding in was struck by a freight train in the 1000 block of 24th Street Southwest when investigators say the driver went around a lowered crossing arm early Friday morning. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the women…

ELMORE, Ala. — Two incarcerated men were killed Thursday during a fight involving a weapon at Elmore Correctional Facility, deepening alarm over an Alabama prison system that federal officials say is unconstitutionally violent and advocates describe as among the deadliest in the nation. The Alabama Department of Corrections said Damon Lamar Calhoun, 35, and Londell…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama’s state library board has again refused to restore funding to the Fairhope Public Library, extending a nearly yearlong freeze tied to the library’s refusal to move books including “The Handmaid’s Tale” out of the teen section and into the adult stacks. The clash has turned the Eastern Shore library into a…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Birmingham police are investigating a Wednesday morning shooting that left a woman wounded off Lakeshore Parkway. Officers responded to the 1200 block of Oak Grove Road after reports of gunfire in the area, which sits just off the busy Lakeshore commercial corridor on Birmingham’s southwest side. Police confirmed a woman was shot,…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A bill prefiled by Rep. Ernie Yarbrough, R-Trinity, would hand Alabama sheriffs and police broad new authority to arrest and detain people they suspect are undocumented immigrants, thrusting local forces deeper into federal immigration enforcement amid a national push under President Donald Trump. The measure, introduced Monday ahead of the 2026 legislative…

BEAUREGARD, Ala. — Three people are in the Lee County Jail after deputies say they found 29 dead dogs piled in a backyard and more than two dozen others emaciated inside a Beauregard home. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office opened the investigation shortly before 11 a.m. Monday after a concerned citizen reported possible animal cruelty…