Hoover Alabama

Students at Hoover High School are hoping to win the national level of a science, technology, engineering and mathematics contest. The campus is already the state victor of the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM Competition, where schools from across the country compete at both state and national levels to win Samsung technology for their schools.

An Alabama woman accused of falsely telling police she was abducted after stopping to check on a toddler wandering along a highway is appealing her municipal court conviction. Her lawyer said she is seeking to avoid a yearlong jail sentence sought by prosecutors.

Authorities in the city of Hoover said they filed criminal charges against a woman who confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of an interstate highway.

Authorities in Alabama said that a woman has confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of the interstate.

A 25-year-old woman who vanished after reporting seeing a toddler on the side of an Alabama interstate is home safe. However, police haven't released details about what happened to her or where she was during their two-day search.

One of Alabama's best-funded public school systems says it's ending school bus service to save money. The Hoover city school board voted Monday night to…