Former Birmingham City Councilor and Jefferson County Commissioner John Katopodis was convicted today on federal fraud charges relating to his involvement with a local charity, Computer Help for Kids.

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Federal prosecutors announced John Katopodis was arrested this morning in Boston, and charged with 97 counts of fraud related to a non-profit he founded with Richard M. Scrushy and Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford. \
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A federal grand jury has indicted John Katopodis on charges that he used a charity [...]

Local Justice Department officials to announce public corruption charges later today.

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Thursday night Jefferson County released the second “material event notice” in as many weeks regarding [...]

Birmingham Weekly has obtained a copy of Larry Langford’s first SEC interview. Get your copy here.

Johnson will explain agreements with legislators and school board members. In exchange, feds won’t prosecute Johnson’s family members.

The Birmingham City Council approved T3 police scooters for cops, but some councilors were reluctant to support another Langford contract for widespread video surveillance throughout the city.

A federal jury in Montgomery has convicted former Jefferson County Commissioner Gary White on all [...]

UPDATE APPENDED 4:20 PM: Council Admin retracts security memo.

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A special prosecutor wants to know whether City Councilor Joel Montgomery participated in any sort [...]

Birmingham Police Chief Annetta Nunn will resign her position, the Birmingham Weekly has learned. Recently, [...]

The following e-mail “safety alert” was sent out to the UAB community at 3:09 p.m. [...]

Member papers of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) this week are providing links on [...]

Kayla Nicole Fanaei, a 20-year-old University of Alabama at Birmingham student, was voted class clown [...]

THIRTY YEARS IN THE TAKING: That’s the subhead of this week’s cover story, “Larry Langford’s [...]