The Amazon billionaire is trying to crush a unionization effort at a warehouse in Bessemer. But David and Goliath fights are in the town’s DNA. Some 5,800 people who work at the Amazon warehouse in ...

BESSEMER, Ala. --The school year was over, but classes were in session on a recent June morning at Jonesboro Elementary School in Bessemer. In one room, a small class of third graders practiced ...

During DeMeco Ryans’ 10 seasons as an NFL middle linebacker and perennial team captain, it might have seemed the former Alabama All-American’s future as a coach was inevitable. But the Pro Football ...

Agents seized 40 sheets of paper (approximately 340 grams) suspected to contain a synthetic controlled substance, along with ...

BESSEMER, Alabama -- Nearly 50 years ago, on July 7, 1964 – just a few days after the passage of the landmark federal Civil Rights Act – nine African-American teenage boys in Bessemer tried to make ...

A 77-year-old man was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Bessemer. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the ...