Birmingham city leaders aim to incorporate community feedback, experiences into draft Violence Reduction Strategic Plan after record homicides in 2024.

I think it makes them think twice before they choose to commit a crime,’’ said Interim Police Chief Michael Pickett. “I think that’s having an impact.” Additionally, Pickett said ...

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and interim Birmingham Police Chief Michael Pickett said in an interview Tuesday their plan to reduce violent crime in the city, which reached a record level last ...

Interim Birmingham Police Chief Michael Pickett was a senior at Ramsay High School when 15-year-old April Jamerson was fatally shot during Senior Skip Day in a Southside park in 2002. It’s a day ...

Since a September mass shooting and a record-level of violent crime last year, Birmingham police are hitting high-crime areas, with a push to recruit more officers and go after gun offenses.

Interim Police Chief Michael Pickett believes that being able to hold more people accountable has affected this year’s lower homicide numbers. “I think it makes them think twice before they ...

BPD is locked in,” Interim Police Chief Michael Pickett said. “What’s happened over the past year and a half has been horrific with one person causing so much pain in our community and ...

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

Both teams were shorthanded, as the Lakers were without LeBron James (groin) and Rui Hachimura (knee). At the same time, the ...

NFL free agency officially began with the new league year kicking off at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. There were plenty of moves made during the legal tampering period on Monday and Tuesday, but those ...

Luka Doncic scored 21 of his 31 points in the first quarter, Austin Reaves added 22 total and the Los Angeles Lakers turned a ...