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

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation to allow visiting judges to be brought in to handle violent criminal cases to get them to trial more quickly ...

Bill Lewis was serving on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals before Ivey appointed him to the state high court.

A teacher was arrested in Alabama after a four-year-old student in her care was taken to a local hospital with a blood ...

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

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Nearly 60 felony cases will be dropped in a small Alabama town because they were compromised by what ...

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 ...

The department's former chief and four officers were indicted for tampering with evidence, among other charges.

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