PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County faces a lawsuit over 2,353 alleged public records violations by the county sheriff’s office stemming from the case of a 2016 inmate suicide in the county jail. The ...

A Jefferson County Sheriff's Office deputy is facing several charges following an internal investigation into alleged ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Various cities, businesses and residents owe bankrupt Jefferson County more than $28 million in long unpaid fees and the chance of collecting all of the money appears unlikely, ...

Jefferson County Sheriff's Office badge. The Jefferson County records clerk who stole $60,000 in union dues from her co-workers was sentenced Friday to three years in prison. Jennifer Goelze, 46, did ...

The number of drug overdose deaths rose slightly in Jefferson County in 2017, but the increase was not as dramatic as it was in previous years. Heroin and fentanyl deaths saw a small decline, while ...

Tens of thousands of Jefferson County residents likely knew Lolita Ramos because they were clutching a jury duty notice in their hands and showed up at the courthouse on a Monday. Ramos, district ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY (WKOW) - A person-of-interest wanted by authorities in connection to two Jefferson County deaths, gunfire at a sheriff's deputy and a potential arson fire is in line to receive ...