Langford Trial Live Blog: Day 2

Larry Langford has been a deceitful, greedy politician who deprived his constituents of honest services by taking bribes from friends in exchange for lucrative bond business ... Or ... Larry Lan

Former Jefferson County Finance Director Steve Sayler told a federal jury Tuesday that Larry Langford understood transactions the county engaged in when Langford served as commission president. [ca

Larry Langford's defense lawyer, Mike Rasmussen, took the small, black file box and dropped it on the table in front of the jury. Just a little bigger than a shoebox, it made an angry plop that echoed

After a day of jury selection, a federal court in Tuscaloosa has chosen the 12 jurors and two alternates who will decide the guilt or innocence of Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford. Once struck, the

Jury selection began Monday morning for the federal corruption trial of Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford. U.S. District Judge Scott Coogler, prosecutors and defense lawyers questioned a jury pool drawn

Larry Langford Trial Live Blog: Day 1

On an afternoon in 1996 Larry Paul Langford sat in his office at Fairfield City Hall smoking a cigarette and listening to the “creatives” from O2 Ideas, the advertising agency co-owned by John Zimmerm

My Mobile friends have a joke about the weather there. It's wonderful, they say. And if you don't like it, wait 30 minutes and it will change. In Birmingham, we could have the same joke about our poli

Birmingham Weekly will live-blog returns for city council and school board elections from Birmingham City Hall. Polls close at 7 pm and the blog should begin shortly after. Fill out the blank below f