When the 2025 legislative year begins in February, state Sen. Jabo Waggoner (R-Vestavia) will begin his 52nd year in the ...

Jabo Waggoner is more than the senior member of the State Senate, he is one of the most accomplished senators in state ...

Jabo Waggoner is not the only reason that Jefferson County has been transformed into one of the nation’s premier medical economic centers, but there is a distinct correlation between Jabo’s ...

The district is one of nearly 40 Alabama school systems that are still under active desegregation orders. Just a decade ago, Jefferson County and the city of Gardendale fought a dramatic battle ...

Breastfeeding mothers will now be exempt from jury duty, according to an administrative order from the Alabama Supreme Court. This ruling follows an outcry from mothers in Jefferson County who had bad ...

Bowman, the son of one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, expressed relief that the curriculum was restored but criticized its ...

The Jefferson County Republican Party has made history by electing Phillip Brown as its first Black Chairman. Brown, a longtime grassroots leader and Republican activist, was elected by acclamation ...

Previous story: Jefferson County mothers are hopeful that a recent ... weren’t greater protections in place for mothers. Latest: Alabama lawmaker backs ‘common sense’ jury exemption for ...

Alabama judges will be required to have written procedures in place that to excuse nursing mothers from jury service under an order issued days after a Jefferson County mother said she was ...