Died in prison
Larry Langford
Larry Langford was born in Birmingham's Loveman Village, served four years in the Air Force, and worked as a journalist before spending decades in public service, including as Birmingham's mayor and on the Visionland amusement park project. Birmingham's current mayor and a former county commission colleague praised his vision and his love for the city, and his wife Melva and family were named in the mayor's statement. He died at age 72 at a hospital in Birmingham. He had been held at a federal prison in Kentucky, where he lived with pulmonary disease, emphysema and heart failure, and he was granted compassionate release the month before he died.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined