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Ida dwindled to a tropical depression on Tuesday after crawling ashore in Alabama from the Gulf of Mexico, and oil operations in the Gulf were returning to normal after being widely disrupted by the storm.

McCalla residents A in favor of a $112 milA lion Norfolk Southern railA road hub -- and a few who remain undecided -- were able to hear from some of those behind the project at a meeting Monday night.

At a meeting with all city department heads, interim Chief of Staff Kevin Moore announced the hiring freeze and ordered all non-law enforcement overtime had to be approved by the mayor's office.

The Birmingham Business Alliance has picked Atlanta's Market Street Services to tinker under the metro area's hood to help the business group tune up the area's economic engine.

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A Walker County woman was killed Sunday in a two-car accident in downtown Birmingham, according to the Jefferson County Coroner's Office.

Birmingham, Ala.- Another candidate has announce a bid for Birmingham Mayor. Defense attorney Emory Anthony confirmed with NBC 13 HD NEWS that he will run for Mayor of Birmingham.

Birmingham - Birmingham police say a toddler was dropped off at Family Court last week, and they need your help finding out his identity.

Market Street Services will work with the newly merged Birmingham chamber group over 6 months on the planning process.

A Birmingham man is being held in the county jail on $500,000 bond after authorities say he hit and raped a 55-year-old woman in late October.

Four stars out of five HUBBARD STREET 2 Friday Alys Stephens Center Final performances Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at ASC Kids' Club event By PHILLIP RATLIFF Hubbard Street 2, the training company of the famed Hubbard Street Dance based in Chicago, consists of six dancers whose ages range from 17 to 24.

Defense Attorney Glennon Threatt talks to Larry Langford as he arrives at the Federal Building in Tuscaloosa, Ala., for Langford's federal bribery trial Tuesday, October 27, 2009.

Seven teachers had sued the Birmingham Board of Education because they were dropped from non-teaching supplemental positions, such as coaching and other sports-related activities, after the school year ended.

Hank III performs at the Zydeco in Birmingham, Ala. on Nov. 4, 2009. Hank Williams III might not play country music just like his grandfather, but that doesn't mean that he's not proud of his legacy.

Alan Albert, 48, and Natalya McArthur, 25. Birmingham police announced today that a man and a woman have been charged with murder in two unrelated shootings that killed two people this week.

Planning to attend the Wailers ' Nov. 12 concert at Birmingham's Alys Stephens Center ? Then you'll want to be aware of the reggae band's local connection.

See this graphic in PDF: SEC lawsuit and settlement documents Federal regulators allege in a lawsuit that Jefferson County Commissioner Shelia Smoot and former Commissioner Jeff Germany demanded that JPMorgan Chase & Co.

More details are developing regarding a person who was shot this morning in Birmingham.

Emergency vehicles work the crash at Avenue W in Pratt City. Birmingham Fire and Rescue workers at 11:25 a.m. today extricated a woman's body from a wrecked car following an accident that happened this morning around 9:30 a.m. on Avenue W. in Pratt City, near Republic Boulevard.

Acting Mayor Carole Smitherman and Chief of Staff Deborah Vance-Bowie talk during a recent City Council meeting.