Homewood News

James Beard Award-winning chef John Currence of Oxford, Miss., is teaming with Birmingham's Fresh Hospitality Group to open a second location of his popular Oxford restaurant Big Bad Breakfast here.

A new, more accurate way of calculating Alabama's graduation rate shows that fewer students are leaving high school on time and with a diploma than previously claimed.

Every so often, some entrepreneur comes up with an idea so spectacularly awesome that one wonders what took so long.

When statements are made in the absence of research, it's tantamount to just blowing smoke.

HOMEWOOD, Alabama --- Homewood residents got their first peek today at proposed road improvements on Oxmoor Boulevard/Oxmoor Road from Green Springs Highway to Barber Court.

The small chain of fitness clubs, founded in a Homewood garage in 2010, last week closed on a four-territory deal that will bring four new gyms to the area south of Nashville.

It's a milestone most of us can only hope to one day experience. Wednesday a smiling Homewood woman shared it with family and friends.

The company looking to invest $24 million to build two new nursing homes to replace one run by Jefferson County questioned HealthSouth Corp.'s reasons for attempting to block the projects.

The Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority recently appointed Andrew Edwards as its newest board member.

Edwards, of Vestavia Hills, becomes that city's representatitive to the transit panel following realligment which resulted in Homewood and Mountain Brook members being replaced with seats from Hoover and Vestavia Hills.

The repetition worked for Stovall's generation and beyond. "My son just told me he did some paper for his finals and he used the quote in his paper.

The Rev. Dave Barnhart, associate pastor at Trinity Methodist Church in Homewood, took an offbeat approach to leading the Contact contemporary worship service, such as last year when he did a sermon series on Johnny Cash using a jail cell as a prop.

One Jefferson County commissioner is calling the promises of financial help from state lawmakers "useless rhetoric." Commissioner Jimmie Stephens believes that they have waited until it's too late.

Each library adopts a version of the program and offers prizes and weekly programs to incorporate the theme throughout the summer.

Birmingham at Homewoo d's bold & bright boutique, a.k.a. Girl Stuff! a.k.a. Girl Stuff, Voted #1 Best Boutique to shop by readers of Birmingham Magazine is offering a $20 voucher for $40 through S haring Spree.

A local billboard near Homewood, Alabama shows the face of Mississippi man, Adam Mayes, who the FBI considers armed and dangerous.

Some of the best high schools in the nation are right here in the CBS42 viewing area.

ALZ024-025-070215- JEFFERSON AL-SHELBY AL- 830 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN SHELBY AND CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT... AT 825 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MOUNTAIN BROOK...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

Who: Carole Cope of Trussville. She and her husband, Danny, have two adult daughters and five grandchildren.

Kick off your Cinco de Mayo in style with Chef Josh Gentry of the Little Donkey restaurant in Homewood, Alabama.