The Birmingham City Council has approved a plan for a Citizens Observer Patrol, with volunteers who are not police officers helping patrol neighborhoods. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin weighed in on ...

For first-generation North Carolinians of a certain age, our impressions of the state were shaped by basketball coaches Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski … and Deputy Barney Fife. Three iconic men in ...

Don Knotts played a variation on the same character for more than 50 years -- on radio, in movies and TV shows. He was the "nervous man" on the old "Steve Allen Show," the sublime Barney Fife on "The ...

When I was growing up, I was a big fan of TV's Sheriff Andy Taylor and Barney Fife, but with the exception of Otis Campbell's getting loaded on booze, not much crime and corruption ever happened in ...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is the Barney Fife of elected lawyers, but she lacks Fife's decency and charm. She was laughed out of court last week — literally — by a Gov. Gretchen ...