The vast majority of all criminal defendants come from low-income communities.  Many of them have never seen a mental health ...

Gov. Kay Ivey signed House Bill 307 into law on Tuesday, establishing the Speedy Trial Act. This new law expedites trials for ...

"One dismissal is too many, but the Grand Jury had no other recourse," the Cullman County district attorney said.

The law known as the Speedy Trial Act allows the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court to appoint a sitting or retired ...

The Hanceville Police Department in Alabama is being disbanded after a corruption probe revealed missing evidence and led to ...

Nearly 60 felony cases will be dropped in a small Alabama town because they were compromised by what a grand jury called a ...

A grand jury dismissed almost 60 criminal cases in Hanceville, Alabama, following accusations of police department corruption. Cullman County District Attorney Champ Crocker issued a statement via ...

JASPER, Ala. A new development has emerged in the case of a Walker County investigator accused of illegally accessing a ...

Federal law enforcement officials have made more than 500 immigration-related arrests in southern Alabama during the last 3½ ...

Governor Kay Ivey has signed the "Back the Blue" law, a controversial bill that enhances legal protections for law ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WSFA) - Gov. Kay Ivey signed House Bill 307 on Tuesday, establishing the “Speedy Trial Act” in Alabama. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Will Barfoot (R) and Rep. Jim Hill (R), expedites ...