Sheriffs are constitutional officers and while their salaries are paid by the county in which they serve, their salaries are ...

A local man accused of trying to hire a hitman while facing felony charges has been sentenced to prison. Lloyd Allen Moore was sentenced this morning in Jefferson ...

Lt. Robyn Pfeiffer was accused of neglecting a Cooper County Jail inmate in February 2024 and was charged with first-degree ...

A Pell City man has died following a single-vehicle crash Friday morning on Interstate 20 in Jefferson County, according to the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WIAT) — An inmate at the Birmingham City Jail was found dead Wednesday morning. Tyeshia Hutchins, 47, was found by jail staff unresponsive inside her cell around 10:53 a.m.

A Jefferson County man serving life for a 1989 contract killing has died in prison. Guy Greggory Griggs, 60, sustained a head injury on Jan. 9 when he fell at William Donaldson Correctional Facility, ...

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office has identified an inmate who died at William Donaldson Correctional Facility in ...

BROOKVILLE — An inmate at the Jefferson County Jail has been charged for allegedly spitting on a corrections officer. State police in Punxsutawney have charged Steven Christopher McGovern, 21, of ...

An inmate at the York County Prison died in his cell this week in what is being investigated as a suicide. The deceased, 34-year-old Adam Miller, had been held at the facility since January 3 on a ...

Public transportation is hardly a given in the North Country, but that’s been slowly starting to change in recent years. Most counties in the region now have some sort of public bus system, with one ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Two women at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood claim they were sexually assaulted by a jail staff ...

KBMT-TV Beaumont-Port Arthur, Posted: January 9, 2026 | Last updated: January 9, 2026 Inmate dies after being found unresponsive at Jefferson County Correctional Facility. MAGA reacts to new video ...