It has been almost a year since Birmingham police officers say Mahogany Jackson was beaten, tortured, and killed.

The Mobile City Council has voted to give the bid to build the new Mobile Civic Center to a Birmingham construction company.

Nearly a year after she first disappeared, the suspects in the kidnapping and murder of a Birmingham woman are returning to court.

The Speedy Trial Act, a bill drafted by the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, would allocate new resources for already backlogged criminal courts across the state.