U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Thomas Bennett has set aside three days this week to determine whether Jefferson County can use money from sewer revenues to pay for the system's capital expenses and the county's bankruptcy legal bills -- moves that would c... »
Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett has set a hearing for April 16 on the motion by creditor Financial Guaranty Insurance Company. »
New York-based Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. has asked a bankruptcy judge to force Jefferson County to raise sewer rates. According to the Birmingham News, FGIC wants U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett to lift a stay that halts legal action in t... »
A federal bankruptcy judge has cleared Jefferson County to move forward with the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. In a ruling late Sunday evening, Judge Thomas Bennett dismissed creditors’ arguments that the county did not qualify for Chap... »
A federal bankruptcy court is fast-tracking appeals of Jefferson County’s $4.23 billion bankruptcy filing in an attempt to resolve the disputed filing as quickly as possible. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett told parties last week they could appeal... »
Glynn Wilson by Glynn Wilson MONTGOMERY, Ala. — What are the voters of Alabama’s Sixth Congressional district to do? Due to the strange district maps that come out of the meat grinder of political gerrymandering, rich Mountain Brook Republicans are thr... »
Frederick Andre Spencer had been free on a 75,000 bond since the shooting death of Derek Dobine, 22, at 46th Place and Avenue V in Ensley »
Three teens accused in a brutal murder case in the Ensley community are due back in court this morning. Rashad Stoves, Artavius Underwood and Reginald Mims will return to the Jefferson County ... »
