Crime and Courts

A tragic shooting from 2020 comes back into focus as the trial of Zachary Profovich unfolds, stirring memories of that fateful night in Tuscaloosa.

A guilty plea from an Aliceville, Alabama man will keep him behind bars for 30 years.

Why Alabama? Tuscaloosa? Northport? Birmingham? More on that later. Yes, a famous killer of two children, Paula Sims, is on her way to Alabama.

Authorities are trying to locate two different drivers from separate incidents involving a police chase. The two police chases happened within a half hour of each other and both involved Exit 76 off Interstate 20/59. Tuscaloosa Police say that both of these vehicle pursuits were stopped by officers who felt that the public would be at risk if the pursuits continued.

If you have ever walked in a Starbucks in the morning hours, you know it is always jam-packed. That was no different last week at a Starbucks in Florida, right down the street from a resort full of Spring Break vacationers. Young ladies and young men from schools all over the country. Yes, that includes right here in Alabama.

A teen killed this past weekend in Montgomery has been identified.

Justin Ross Harris of Tuscaloosa will not be retried for the 2014 death of his 22-month-old son, according to the Cobb County District Attorney.

Defense attorneys are seeking to subpoena four witnesses for a second hearing in the Jamea Harris capital murder case later this month.

A 79-year-old man from Bankston was found guilty of attempted murder this week relating to a 2021 shooting.

The sentencing phase for Koran Lewis, the third suspect convicted in the 2017 murder of Jennifer Nevin, is taking place this week in Tuscaloosa.