A grand jury recommended abolishing the department after six arrests they said came from a "rampant culture of corruption." ...

FOX54 has also reviewed a lawsuit filed in 2024 against the city by former Hanceville police officer Lowell Hadder. The suit ...

The death of a dispatcher and drug-related arrests of police officers thrust an Alabama town into the national spotlight.

A grand jury indicted the police chief and four officers and issued a scathing report criticizing the department.

The small Alabama city of Hanceville, located about 45 miles north of Birmingham, placed its entire police force on administrative leave a day after the grand jury recommendation.

Hanceville Mayor Jim Sawyer said Thursday in a statement that the Cullman County Sheriff’s Department will temporarily take over over law enforcement duties as city officials mull the next steps.

Five Hanceville police officers, the police chief, and the spouse of an officer were arrested on Wednesday on a multitude of charges.

The Cullman County Sheriff’s Office and Cullman County District Attorney’s Office are holding a joint news conference ...

On Wednesday, a grand jury in Alabama recommended the Hanceville Police Department be abolished after multiple officers were ...

There is a rampant culture of corruption in the Hanceville Police Department, which has recently operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency,” according to the grand jury ...

An Alabama grand jury has recommended that the Hanceville Police Department be "immediately abolished," prosecutors said ...

A federal grand jury has recommended a rural Alabama police department be abolished as it indicted five of its officers with ...