The fallout over aggressive policing in the tiny Jefferson County town of Brookside continued Tuesday, as Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth asked for an official state audit of the town, its police ...

The Alabama Senate passed a bill today to put a limit on the money cities and towns can retain from traffic ticket fines, legislation that comes after reports of abuses by police in Brookside. The ...

Brookside, Alabama, a former mining community of about 1,250 with a median household income less than $40,000, has no traffic lights and only a handful of two-lane roads, yet it raked in so much ...

BROOKSIDE, Ala. (WIAT) — Brookside police are investigating after arresting six people linked to drug trafficking and manufacturing, stolen vehicles and property. Around 7 p.m. on Sunday, October 5, ...

BROOKSIDE, Ala. — The police chief of a northern Alabama town resigned Tuesday amid allegations that he set up an aggressive traffic trap that by 2020 accounted for nearly half of the town’s revenue.