Alabama crime

A Montgomery nonprofit is working to highlight the epidemic of hate-fueled crimes, their survivors and the advocacy to prevent the crimes. The Southern Poverty Law Center is holding its Hate Crimes Awareness Month multi-media campaign throughout October.

The search continues for the gunmen involved in a weekend mass shooting at Hush Lounge in Five Points South. Police say they believe the shooters targeted at least one of the victims when they opened fire. Carlos De’Juan McCain and Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr., who both were killed in the shooting, were separately charged in past Birmingham homicides.

Officials in Birmingham pleaded Monday with members of the public for information leading to arrests in a weekend mass shooting that killed four people, announcing rewards of up to $100,000. Authorities have still made no arrests after Saturday’s shooting at Hush Lounge.

Auburn Public Safety invites community members, families and residents to celebrate the city’s 41st annual National Night Out on Tuesday, August 6. The event is designed to promote local anticrime and drug efforts and to generate community unity.

The City of Mobile recently announced a new partnership with the University Hospital and the Mobile County Health Department aimed at reducing violent crimes.

An Alabama district attorney asked a judge to order a new trial for a death row inmate, saying that a review found that the 1998 conviction was flawed and "cannot be justified or allowed to stand."

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and across the nation, there are remembrances for the victims of sexual assault crimes including here in Alabama.

For those with an outstanding warrant for a nonviolent misdemeanor, the City of Mobile may have a way for offenders to take care of it without the risk of being arrested. The city's Legal Department and Municipal Court are partnering with the non-profit Growing Real Alternatives Everywhere (GRAE) to host a Warrant Clinic.

Two white boaters on Friday pleaded guilty to harassment charges in connection with an Alabama riverfront brawl that drew national attention.

Natalee Holloway's parents gathered in a room at an Alabama jail on Oct. 3 to watch the man long-suspected in their daughter's 2005 disappearance describe how he killed her.