If confirmed next year by the new Republican-led Senate, Atkins would replace Gary Gensler, who has been leading the U.S.

A 20-year-old has been charged in the May fatal shooting of another man in Birmingham. Brandon Davis is charged with reckless manslaughter in the death of 29-year-old Douglas Youngblood Jr. The ...

Douglas Fitzgerald Youngblood Jr. was shot just before midnight on May 15 on First Avenue South near 55th Street in Woodlawn.