Mountain Brook News

It's a wonder vacation Bible school made it out of the 1960s. Back in the days of black-and-white TV, churches offered kids lemonade, cookies and flannel-board stories about Jesus, all set to a clanging piano.

Well Ruben Studdard didn't waste anytime with the marriage licence he got earlier this week.

When Mountain Brook dress shop owner Leah Leaf is on one of her regular buying trips in New York City, she can spot a frock and know instantly which one of her longtime customers would look perfect in it.

Former " American Idol " Ruben Studdard is getting ready for a weekend wedding in his home state of Alabama .

Hidden treasure, in the form of antiques and artwork, have emerged from attic storage at the Alabama Theatre to grace its new arts center.

An estimated two-hundred and fifty-thousand dollars were added to the campaign coffers of presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barak Obama.

Michelle Obama, wife of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, arrived at a Mountain Brook home at about 12:15 p.m. today for a $1,000-per-person fundraiser.

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Longtime Mountain Brook dress shop Eve's Leaves will close this summer after serving multiple generations of customers for 41 years.

Amit Slovik likes to joke that he was born into diamonds. Raised in Israel, he spent his childhood summers working alongside his father polishing the gems, and he has since parlayed that experience into a ...

Posted by Kathy Seale / The Birmingham News June 12, 2008 7:18 AM Categories: Home & Garden Jeronimo Nisa Lois Nizny of Cincinnati, standing, recently spent three days teaching, seated from left, Lucy Tutwiler, ...

The fuel budgets at the region's fire departments are being burnt through at record paces.

Josh Wheeler of Montevallo and Megan Hudson of Trussville play the roles of frantic parents attempting to talk their daughter Mimsy out a locked bathroom on her wedding day in a scene from Neil Simon's "Plaza ...

Posted by Hannah Wolfson -- Birmingham News June 06, 2008 6:45 PM Tomatoes were for sale again at Whole Foods Market in Mountain Brook today, a day after word of a salmonella outbreak caused the retailer to ...

Police believe the driver of the other car in Monday's accident may have fallen asleep.

Posted by Jeremy Gray -- The Birmingham News June 03, 2008 9:30 AM A 20-year-old Auburn University student from Illinois may have fallen asleep when the car she was driving crossed a median on U.S. 280 Monday ...

A serious wreck on Highway 280 this morning ended in tragedy. It happened about 6:30am, on Highway 280 near Overton Road.

Birmingham's new chief of police, 44-year-old A.C. Roper, has been on the job for nearly six months.

Charlotte Botsford is a Mountain Brook youth pastor. She said Natalie Holloway's senior trip disappearance has forced parents to scale down the annual tradition.

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