Birmingham attorney Juandalynn Givan handily defeated former state representative John Hilliard in the Democratic runoff for Alabama House District 60 today.
Jefferson County sheriff's deputies raided a house in the Mt. Oliver area this morning to arrest a man suspected of trying to run over a Morris police officer two weeks ago.
Brian Rushing with the Fresh Water Land Trust paddles through a shoal. A crew of paddlers out with the Freshwater Land Trust pilot their canoes through a set of rapids, and then, with calm restored, pause to look up to the tall canyon walls that have risen on either side of this remote 14-mile stretch of Village Creek in western Jefferson County.