Brookwood, Alabama

As steel girders begin forming the shape of a new physicians office building near Interstate 459, Tony Petelos is still pushing for a Hoover hospital.

Published: Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 12, 2010 at 11:34 p.m. When the final grades are tallied, many of the sophomores in Jennifer Drawhorn's AP U.S. history class at Hillcrest High will be one step closer to graduating from high school.

Published: Friday, March 5, 2010 at 9:36 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 5, 2010 at 9:36 a.m. BROOKWOOD Students at Brookwood High School and Brookwood Elementary School were dismissed from school at 10 a.m. today because of a water outage at both schools.

Brookwood High and Middle school close at 10am today due to a water main problem.

Published: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, February 8, 2010 at 10:59 p.m. TUSCALOOSA Prosecutors said an intentional, rear-end collision initiated by a man intent on robbing another left the victim with life-threatening injuries.

Published: Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 12:23 a.m. In little more than a month, a program huge in ambition has quietly taken off at Brookwood High School.

Published: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 11:30 p.m. TUSCALOOSA Sheriff's deputies recovered a school bus that was stolen from Brookwood Middle School over the weekend.

The number of miners killed on the job in the United States fell for a second straight year to 34, the fewest since officials began keeping records nearly a century ago.

Dr. Sandral Hullett recalls a story about a boy who was bitten by a snake as he and his friends played in a rural community in south Alabama's Lowndes County.

Kelli Williams, 16, left, and Santana Williams, 15, second from left, look over a Christmas table centerpiece as Kayla Smith, 15, holds it in Jennifer Crutchfield's agriculture classroom at Brookwood High School in Brookwood, Ala.

Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 11:30 p.m. TUSCALOOSA Most of the kindergarteners standing ready to get H1N1 swine flu vaccines at Matthews Elementary were ready and waiting Tuesday, but a few were scared.

Brookwood, AL - The Brookwood mining community is no stranger to grief. Today they are grieving again as 1 miner is killed and 9 injured in an accident.

Published: Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 8:32 p.m. One of eight Brookwood coal miners who were overcome during a rescue attempt Tuesday at Brookwood Mine No.

A mining inspector died and eight others were injured at a Walter Energy coal mine near Brookwood, Ala.

Tonight we will know whether the city of Pensacola's form of government will change.

The American and Walter Energy flags fly over the central mining office of Jim Walter Resources in Brookwood, Ala., where a mining accident claimed the life of an inspector.

The AHSAA released the 2010-2012 football classifications and region alignments today, and local teams have a few changes to adjust to.

Tennessee, California, Washington state, Oklahoma and Louisiana have the highest combined state and average local sales tax rates, according to updated information released by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation today.

Hate paying nearly 7 cents in sales tax for every dollar spent in Utah? Sales taxes are higher in 25 states, and lower in 24, putting Utah almost dead center nationally, according to a study released Friday.