Homewood News

Participants walk at Homewood Central Park in Homewood, Ala., on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, during VisionWalk, a fundraising event for the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

What sets this restaurant apart from others? We are small and independently owned which helps us to be flexible to meet our customers' needs.

Michael Tomberlin -- The Birmingham News also contributed to this report View full size State transportation officials are ready to move forward with a $710 million makeover of U.S. 280 -- a new plan that doesn't rely entirely on elevated toll lanes that doomed a previous proposal to unsnarl the congested highway.

Graham & Co. wants to build the five-story 2800 at 280 Building at the site of the former Mountain Brook Inn on U.S. 280.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn this week sentenced two Birmingham men for a February carjacking in the parking lot of a drugstore on West Valley Avenue in Homewood, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance announced.

Fort Payne native Nicolas McAbee is a nursing student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, but he recently took his turn at modeling.

I f your kid had a lemonade stand, and ran it like the city of Homewood, you'd have but two options: 1. Shut the sucker down.

A band of Alabama soldiers marched together again at the Memorial built for them in Washington.

"Going Rogue: An American Life," * the new Sarah Palin memoir, will be out in a week.

Two men and a woman are in custody after authorities said they robbed a Homewood sandwich shop in August, police announced today.

A vigil was held in downtown Homewood Tuesday evening as friends and family marked one year since a young mother disappeared.

Bogue's of Homewood closed after about a year and a half in the old Florida Grill location on Oxmoor Road, and the Homewood Diner has taken its place.

Lauren Mbogo, 7, checks out her new clothing in a mirror at the Assistance League of Birmingham headquarters in Homewood.

Homewood & Hueytown, Ala. - *Video will be shown Tuesday night at 10:00 on ABC 33/40 News.

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford waits outside the the Federal Building in Tuscaloosa, Ala, as the jury deliberates during his federal bribery trial Wednesday, October 28, 2009.

Homewood police report the northbound lanes of Interstate 65 at Lakeshore Parkway are open again after being closed about 4 p.m. by a three-car crash.

A man has been charged for allegedly trying to run over a Samford University police officer.

Dexter McIntosh faces several criminal charges following his arrest in a shoplifting incident Monday, Oct.

At approximately 3:00 p.m. this afternoon officers from the Department of Public Safety responded to a call of a shoplifting from the Campus Book Store.

Shots were fired this afternoon on the Samford University campus in Homewood as a university police officer pursued at least two shoplifting suspects from the campus bookstore.