Mountain Brook News

Crestline Elementary School in Mountain Brook, Alabama, has strong parental involvement.

A limited liability group backed by Rime Management Group Inc. recently sold a Shelby County apartment complex for $14 million, public records show.

At the risk of sounding nave, we don't have to be poor and proud in Barbour County.

Living Social has a deal on D/4D Ultrasound Imaging Session with Two Color 3D P rints, Gender Determination, One-Year Website Access, and $25 Off Return Visits Pay $49 and get all of the above at the 4D Mommies office in Mountain Brook.

In the spring of 2010, those who regularly travel congested U.S. 280 through Shelby County were hopeful a plan for improving the dangerous traffic corridor was taking root.

Most rational men despise Valentine's Day because the concept of national mandatory romance seems hopeless and absurd, so here is a checklist to guide the men of Birmingham through this day.

AAA offers this special website for senior drivers who want answers about aging and driving, and for family members and friends concerned about the impact of aging on a senior driver.

Birmingham, Ala Apparently Joran van der Sloot's new digs aren't as appealing as his stay at the Castro Castro prison.

Gavin Ennis is shown at his City Vineyard wine shop with some of the wines he has been able to get since the economy flattened the market for some of the higher-end wines.

Students of UAB and residents of Birmingham still have time to visit the Mapping Birmingham exhibit currently being displayed at Vulcan Park and Museum.

The City Council Monday approved a $3,500 contract with Sain Associates for traffic advisory on the effect of a planned unit development.

Governor Robert Bentley announced Friday that Alabama's December 2011 unemployment rate dropped again, dramatically, to 8.1%, down from 8.7% in November.

Karl Emil Hofammann, Jr., M.D., 90, Birmingham gynecologist and female urologist, succumbed of natural causes at his home in Mountain Brook, Alabama, on January 15, 2012.

Who: Lori Salter, 48, of Inverness. She's the public information officer for Hoover Mayor Gary Ivey.

Mountain Brook, Alabama No justice for Natalee, it's the reason the Holloway family has fought so hard to keep the missing Mountain Brook teen's story alive five years after her disappearance.

Birmingham, Ala It's a murder mystery. It's a sad reality show. It's a true life story of grief stricken families.

Life story: Joran van der Sloot was asked to detail his life by a psychologist after confessing to killing Peruvian student Stephany Flores in May 2010 The troubled life of a Dutch citizen jailed for 28 years for killing a Peruvian student in a fit of rage has been laid bare in a handwritten letter to police.

The parents of Natalee Holloway looked on somberly as a judge on Thursday declared their child dead, more than six years after the American teenager vanished during a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Salvatore's Pizza & Pasta has added a new location in Mountain Brook's English Village.