The heavily armed Tuscaloosa Police Department special response team was briefly deployed to West Tuscaloosa on Thursday morning to assist federal agents seeking to arrest a fugitive who eventually surrendered.
The Tuscaloosa Police Department posthumously promoted two of its fallen officers on Friday morning, elevating men who were killed in 2011 and 2019 to the rank of Sergeant.
A spokesperson for the Tuscaloosa Police Department said they received more than 70 calls for service in the Strip area after A-Day on Saturday, prompting them to shut down the bar-and-restaurant district before sunset.
Police in Tuscaloosa have closed the Strip after crowds in the bar-and-restaurant-filled district near the University of Alabama campus got too rowdy on Saturday afternoon.
There was a scare and a shelter-in-place order at Tuscaloosa's Northridge Middle School on Friday after a student apparently found an inert explosive accidentally left there during police training over Spring Break.
A Tuscaloosa man was arrested and charged with first-degree armed robbery after he reportedly tried to hold up a West End gas station with a knife on Thursday.