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 new law, which goes into effect Oct. 1, expands immunity for police in civil and criminal cases, adding new definitions ...

Sheriff Nick Smith has filed a lawsuit against the Walker County Commission, alleging that the Commission unlawfully declared ...

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 ...

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

The grand jury determined that 58 felony criminal cases had been tainted by corruption in the Hanceville Police Department in northern Alabama, after four officers and the police chief were ...