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Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is holding a news conference with the Crime Commission.

City of Birmingham officially launches HEART program to help homeless people find resources ...

Naysa Dunlap, a 22-year-old Black social worker from Columbus, Ohio, attended the People’s March with her partner, Lessly ...

City of Birmingham officially launches HEART program to assist homeless people find resources ...

This is the EDA’s second round of funding for the Tech Hubs program. The EDA, an agency within the Department of Commerce, ...

Bob Veale, a Birmingham native who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Red Sox in the 1960s and 1970s, is shown outside Rickwood Field in Birmingham in 2003. Veale died this week at age 89. ...

Birmingham ended 2024 with 151 homicides ... (where murder was up as of mid-year), down 29%t in D.C., down 24% in Baltimore, down 20% in Kansas City, “There are 40 cities in the RTCI reporting ...

An Alabama city will pay $750,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit against a police officer who fatally shot one ...