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Teenagers are recovering after a fight at a bus stop escalated into a shooting. Birmingham police say a teenager was shot getting off the school bus Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Vanderbilt Street and Rugby Avenue.

A teenager was shot today following an altercation that started when she got off of a school bus in the East Lake area, Birmingham authorities said.

Joran van der Sloot denies again he killed Natalee Holloway of Mountain Brook and says he'll talk about the death of Stephany Flores in Peru when he appears before a judge.

I just read the Birmingham Weekly piece by Jon Poor about the Birmingham News piece by Mary Colurso about the Birmingham Arts and Music festival .

Job applicants line up at a recent hiring event staged in Birmingham by Kohl's. A Manpower survey indicates stronger hiring trends in the area in the fourth quarter.

Christopher Hitchens, right, author of "God is Not Great," and David Berlinski, author of "How Atheism Poisons Everything," talk at a luncheon at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel on Sept.

Birmingham City Council approves incentives for renovation of former Pizitz building downtown Published: Tuesday, September 07, 2010, 12:25 PM Updated: Tuesday, September 07, 2010, 12:27 PM Enlarge David Silverstein with Bayer Properties shows the old Pizitz building in downtown Birmingham Friday August 27, 2010.

Birmingham, Alabama residents have a number of environmental factors that causes coughs.

A subsidiary of commercial real estate REIT Excel Trust, Inc. has acquired the Vestavia Hills City Center, a 375,871 square foot retail shopping center located in Vestavia Hills , Alabama.

Jarvis Watkins, the new principal at Pleasant Grove Middle School, talks with his wife, Angela Watkins, who is the new principal at Lipscomb Elementary.

A 24-year-old Birmingham man has been charged with murder in a shooting last month in the Collegeville housing community in North Birmingham.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton Former President Bill Clinton will be in Birmingham on Thursday to help Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ron Sparks raise a little cash.

Two people were wounded by gunfire overnight in separate shootings in Birmingham.

Here's your Labor Day forecast from the National Weather Service . Labor Day: Sunny, with a high near 90.

Mark Sisbarro works 40 hours a week as a server operator for a computer company, then an additional 25 hours as a cashier at Lowe's. He's one of many in the Birmingham area working two jobs to make ends meet.

On her recent trip to Romania, Make Way Partners founder Kimberly Smith plays with Danny, the child of a woman rescued from forced prostitution.

Amy Sparks likes to keep up with her daughter's school assignments, grades and attendance at Ramsay High School.

The Birmingham area has shed jobs every month for more than two years, and the area's employment level has contracted at a more rapid pace than Mobile's and Huntsville's during the worst economic downturn in decades, an analysis shows.

Live Design Group architects Whitney Simon, Craig Krawczyk and Aubrey Garrison use this 52-inch computer screen to involve their clients in the live design process.

A man, trapped inside his car in Village Creek, was rescued by Birmingham firefighters this morning.