Mayor Kenneth Nail of Hanceville, Alabama, resigned Tuesday and pleaded guilty to 15 misdemeanor counts. Nail, 60, was charged with using city employees and inmates for private labor. "I am truly ...

HANCEVILLE, Ala. — As a small Alabama city weighs whether to disband its police department accused of having a “rampant culture of corruption,” residents are split over how to weigh the need for ...

A grand jury recommended abolishing a small Alabama police department because of a “rampant culture of corruption” after charging five officers with a variety of crimes, officials announced Wednesday.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Hanceville, a small Alabama city of around 3 ...

Jan. 2—Since 2008, Hanceville voters have sent Kenneth Nail to city hall as the victor in four successive mayoral elections that became increasingly uncontested with every four-year interval that ...

HANCEVILLE, Ala. (WIAT) — Two weeks after tabling final discussions on the future of its police force, the Hanceville City Council has decided to keep its problematic agency but will start over by ...

HANCEVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The City of Hanceville has announced that the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) is taking over its police jurisdiction temporarily, effective Thursday. In a notice ...

HANCEVILLE, Alabama (WVTM) — Various drugs and at least one handgun were listed as missing following an audit of the Hanceville Police Department’s evidence room as the future of the department ...

Welcome back. We’ll start today with some Birmingham homicide data that perhaps show a step in the right direction. A lot has been said of Birmingham’s record 152 homicides in 2024. It has caused ...

An Alabama county grand jury recommended a local police department be “immediately abolished” as it indicted a group of law enforcement officers in the death of 911 dispatcher Christopher Willingham ...