Thomas Tolbert Sr., one of the first group of black City Council members elected in Bessemer, has died. Services for Tolbert, 90, were today. He died May 31. Tolbert was a plaintiff in a 1983 ...

The council voted unanimously to spend the next 60 days determining whether the Jehovah's Witnesses Assembly Hall on Second Avenue North in Bessemer can serve as the new site for a city hall.