Brookwood News

The AHSAA released the 2010-2012 football classifications and region alignments today, and local teams have a few changes to adjust to.

Tennessee, California, Washington state, Oklahoma and Louisiana have the highest combined state and average local sales tax rates, according to updated information released by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation today.

Hate paying nearly 7 cents in sales tax for every dollar spent in Utah? Sales taxes are higher in 25 states, and lower in 24, putting Utah almost dead center nationally, according to a study released Friday.

If Trinity Medical Center is allowed to relocate to U.S. 280, St. Vincent's East will be the lone hospital operating in north and east Jefferson County.

Midtown Pediatrics and Brookwood Medical Center are the only medical providers in Jefferson County with the nasal mist vaccine for H1N1.

Cash-strapped Jefferson County can't offer business-recruitment incentives and is handing its economic development duties to the Birmingham Business Alliance .

" The Illinois Office of Mines and Minerals, a division of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources , is among six organizations nationwide that will receive grant funding from the Mine Safety and Health Administration this year.

Published: Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 8:27 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 8:27 p.m. Officials are investigating to find out what started a fire that killed an 80-year-old woman in her Brookwood mobile home.

The 2 and a half year old child who accidentally shot himself in the head at his Fleetwood home Wednesday has died.

Tuscaloosa County school spokesman John Merrill says two schools will be closed today, due a water problem.

Tuscaloosa County school spokesman John Merrill says two schools will be closed today, due a water problem.

A Nashville sports training firm whose partners include NFL quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Philip Rivers is moving forward on a $1.5 million local facility after a year of delays.

A 53-year-old Mountain Brook man jumped to his death this morning from a parking deck at Brookwood Medical Center.

A broke Jefferson County could make for a broke-down Alabama, Gov. Bob Riley warns.

Sgt. Andy Norris with the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Department tells FOX6 News that a 17-year old boy has drowned in the Black Warrior River.

If you plan on doing your back to school shopping at The Galleria, The Summit, Brookwood Mall or anywhere else in Jefferson county, you can expect to pay more than in other areas.

New and expanding industry announcements earned Alabama a "Silver Shovel" award from Area Development magazine, Governor Bob Riley announced today.

Can a receiver do a better job handling money than the Jefferson County Commission? Sure.

Ronald Juarez puts a stone facing on a column at The Grove shopping center under construction in Hoover.

Fultondale Mayor Jim Lowery views Birmingham's clogged traffic arteries as justification to shift hospital beds at shuttered Physicians Medical Center Carraway to a facility in north Jefferson County.