Shelby County News

A ground crewman talks on a radio as a Boeing B-17G 'Flying Fortress' approaches for a landing at the Shelby County Airport in Calera on Friday.

Two years later, Head's decision to run can be felt across the entire Columbiana community, as she helped the school qualify for the Alabama High School Athletic Association Class 5A state meet for the first time in school history.

Although the Alabama Department of Public Health had only 2,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine earmarked for Shelby County, those vaccines still are not all gone, said ADPH area administrator Mark Johnson.

A few Shelby County high schools changed football regions and basketball areas, but no team moved up or down a classification in the 2010-2012 Alabama High School Athletic Association realignment, which was released Wednesday.

The contract, passed during a Nov. 2 City Council meeting, will go into effect Dec.

The bad news keeps coming for Jefferson County and the cities that pulled out of the cooperative which monitors storm water runoff for local governments.

HealthSouth Corp. wants to build a 34-bed freestanding inpatient reA habilitation hospital in Shelby County, near Shelby Baptist MediA cal Center.

A Shelby County doctor has been arrested after he was charged with illegally issuing prescriptions for oxycodone, Lortab, and Xanax.

I want former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford to know he and his family are in our thoughts and prayers.

A Helena man is in the Shelby County jail awaiting extradition to Kitsap County, Wash., on charges of domestic violence and child molestation.

Fans of the movie a oeTwilighta may notice a familiar face visiting the Alabaster area during the next several weeks.

The Jefferson County Department of Health will offer the swine flu vaccine at only two public clinics this week.

Rain this morning has forced ALDOT officials to delay lane closures for survey work on Interstate 65 in Shelby County until Wednesday.

Developers and large industrial landowners won their battle in gutting the cooperative that monitors storm water runoff for area local governments.

26. Davis will speak at 7 p.m. at the Elements Corner CafA© at 2991-A County Road 95 in Helena.

A former Vincent pastor has been convicted of murder in the 2005 killing of his wife.

Dispute over a pair of affidavits filed by Alabama and Florida law enforcement officials came during the fourth day of hearings in a former Vincent pastora s murder trial.

At approximately 2:00 p.m. Shelby County 911 recieved a call of a robbery at Anthony's Jewelry and Pawn, located at 4673 Highway 280 in north Shelby County.

The EPA said Tuesday it had fined Savannah Pointe Properties LLC of Chelsea $20,000 for storm water runoff violations at its Savannah Pointe II subdivision.

Shelby County no longer holds Alabamaa s best unemployment rate. For the month of September, Shelby Countya s unemployment rate was 7.6 percent, barely higher than Madison Countya s rate of 7.5 percent.