Mayor Randall Woodfin said the crude comment was originally made by Commissioner Lashunda Scales when she demanded favoritism ...

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For the first time in a decade, Birmingham ended 2025 with less than 100 homicides. There were 88 homicides in 2025, down from 152 in 2024 when the city’s homicide tally broke a record set in 1933.

More than a dozen speakers sounded off on data centers during Tuesday’s public hearing at the Birmingham City Council. After watching the uproar caused by the recent approval of a $14 billion, ...