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Nearly three dozen McCalla home lots owned by a company with ties to Richard Scrushy are going on the auction block Saturday.

I t has been a year of trials and tribulations in and around Birmingham. Not that those were always the same thing.

Birmingham business leaders are ready to galvanize around a new mayor to promote the area and its economic development opportunities.

Here's a challenge: try to imagine a major network television news program -- one with a long, storied reputation for hard-hitting journalism -- assigning a reporter to follow around OJ Simpson 's current love interest , in order to drum up sympathy for how difficult life is while her man is locked up in prison, and giving OJ himself the airtime to ...

The Birmingham News' story on "underbanked" Americans failed to note the findings of a newly published FDIC report are drastically exaggerated .

Birmingham mayoral candidate Patrick Cooper led in both fundraising and campaign debt, according to campaign finance reports filed with Jefferson County Probate Court on today.

The chief executive officer at HealthSouth Corp. recently suggested the near-bankrupt Jefferson County could take a lesson from his company, which knows a thing or two about averting financial collapse.

Jefferson County Commissioner Shelia Smoot, left, in a file photo. Jefferson County Commissioner Shelia Smoot said today that the county doesn't need help from HealthSouth Corp.

HealthSouth Corporation announced it will participate in the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2009 Credit Conference in New York on Dec.

HydraLogic Systems Inc. says it has signed a letter of intent with an international investment group to sell substantially all of the Toronto company's assets.

Jay Grinney told attendees of the Birmingham Economic Summit Thursday that HealthSouth's comeback can show the way for Jefferson County to solve its debt and leadership crisis .

HealthSouth Corp . CEO Jay Grinney said today that the same sort of corruption, debt and secrecy that once threatened to destroy the health care company now threaten the survival of Jefferson County's government.

BIRMINGHAM -- Leslie Scrushy's pajama company has faded from view as her husband's legal troubles have mounted in past the few years.

HealthSouth Corporation announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of $290 million in aggregate principal amount of its 8.125% senior notes due February 15, 2020 at a public offering price of 98.327% of the principal amount.

A $4 million estate in central Alabama that belonged to former HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy is going to be auctioned next month.

BIRMINGHAM - A federal appeals court says a former HealthSouth executive should go to prison for his role in a huge accounting fraud at the Birmingham-based rehabilitation chain.

"Some people say I will bankrupt this city. Well, let me tell you this, I will spend every dollar I can find.

But Uppseedaisees resurfaced last month when Richard Scrushy, the imprisoned HealthSouth founder, testified that his wife's pajama business was paying his legal bills as he continues to fight to save his fortune and win his freedom.

The acquittals of two Bear Stearns Cos. hedge-fund managers in a test trial for prosecutions linked to the subprime crisis echo a long line of high-profile financial cases that blew up in the governmenta s face.

Sheriff Jimmy Abbett, left, and chief deputy David McMichael auction Richard Scrushy's luxury lake house, an airplane hangar and two adjacent lots on the steps of the Tallapoosa County Courthouse, Monday, November 9, 2009.