Chicago, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C., will host public observances for civil rights icon and Greenville native the Rev. Jesse Jackson ...

Memorial services honoring the life of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will be expanded beyond Chicago with events in ...

Norman C. Francis, who began his 47-year tenure as president of Xavier University of Louisiana on the day Rev. Martin Luther ...

Luther Watkins Jr. was sentenced Thursday to life without the possibility of parole in the capital murder killing of Tuscaloosa police investigator Dornell Cousette, following several days of ...

Leader of the civil rights movement with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and candidate for president, will be forever ...

Luther Watkins Jr. was sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 2019 capital murder of Police Officer Dornell Cousette.

The man convicted of shooting a Tuscaloosa police officer in cold blood will spend the rest of his life in prison. On ...

Luther Bernard Watkins Jr. was convicted Feb. 13 in the slaying of 40-year-old Investigator Dornell Cousette, a U.S. Army ...

A company seeking to open a medical-waste processing facility in Birmingham’s Kingston community says the project would ...

The contractor will bore horizontally to avoid disturbing the Union Pacific Railroad that passes over the collapsed 42-inch sewer line.

After five years in business, Sam’s Place Jazz Cafe is closing due to economic challenges. Customers have a last chance to ...

In Shelby County, law enforcement is constantly rethinking what it means to respond to a crisis, shifting the focus from ...