BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A recent robbery at the Birmingham Festival Theatre has deepened financial challenges for the long-running arts institution, prompting renewed calls for community support as the local landmark looks to its history for hope. The theft was discovered by board members last weekend after a performance. Nobody was present or injured during the…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Recovery advocates in Birmingham are warning the public after a string of recent overdoses and deaths believed to be linked to a dangerous batch of methamphetamine described as “brown” and rock-like. The source of the drugs has not been identified, and authorities are investigating multiple fatalities in the area. Health officials say…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A man was fatally shot and another was wounded late Wednesday at East Lake Park, according to Birmingham police. Officers were called to the 100 block of 84th Street North shortly after 11:30 p.m. July 16, where they discovered an unresponsive man with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Homewood Mayor Alex Wyatt are both calling for transparency as demands intensify for the release of police body camera footage in the fatal shooting of Jabari Peoples, while activists and the victim’s family threaten a boycott of Homewood businesses unless the video is made public. Peoples, an…

JASPER, Ala. — A former Walker County sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to two counts of civil rights violations for violently assaulting Tony Mitchell, an inmate who died weeks later after being jailed under brutal and inhumane conditions. Carl Lofton Carpenter, 55, admitted that during Mitchell’s 2023 arrest, he stomped on the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Alabama transgender woman, Cayla Calhoun, who left her home state searching for refuge from escalating anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, was assaulted near the National Mall in Washington, D.C., last month in an attack police are investigating as a possible hate crime. Calhoun, who grew up in Argo, Alabama, relocated to the nation’s capital…