All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 21 2020 // A medical marijuana bill cleared its first hurdle Wednesday in the Alabama Legislature, giving hope to advocates after years of setbacks.Audience members applauded as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 8-1 for the bill,...
Feb 14 2020 // Days of torrential rain across the Southeast left residents to deal with rising rivers, falling trees, weakened dams and mudslides Thursday as storms finally subsided.An Alabama town asked residents to cut back on water...
Feb 14 2020 // Days of rain have left parts of Alabama awash in millions of gallons of dingy water that overflowed from sanitary sewer systems.On Wednesday, reports submitted to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management showed...
Feb 13 2020 // A Tennessee hillside collapsed, roads were flooded and rivers were rising across the Southeast on Tuesday after a day of heavy rains that once again threatened a Mississippi lake where a dam previously was in danger of...
Feb 12 2020 // Storms stretching across the Deep South dumped heavy rains on Mississippi and Alabama on Monday, causing flash floods that covered roads and forced some schools to close.Dozens of roads were under water in low-lying areas...
Feb 12 2020 // CNC Catastrophe & National Claims, based in Mobile, Ala., has added Seneth Baker as brand manager. Baker comes to CNC with a background in advertising, graphic design and brand management. During her career, she has...
Feb 10 2020 // More than 260,000 homes and businesses in the southeastern United States were without power early Friday after a powerful storm raked the region. At least five people were killed.North Carolina had the most customers...
Feb 7 2020 // A powerful winter storm raked across the Deep South early Thursday, with high winds and flooding causing damage that killed one person, injured several others and littered at least 10 states. Rescue crews repeatedly pulled...
Feb 4 2020 // 3M has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in connection to discharges from a chemical plant in northern Alabama that may not have complied with permit requirements.Michael Roman, the Minnesota-based company’s...
Jan 30 2020 // Roughly two dozen people lived on Dock B at Jackson County Park Marina, and none was rich or famous. They were middle-class adults and children, not yachters, folks who liked having a Tennessee River bywater for their...
Jan 29 2020 // A massive fire that killed at least eight people and destroyed dozens of boats in an Alabama marina early Monday was spread so rapidly by the wind that “we didn’t have time to do nothing,” said one...
Jan 28 2020 // Two construction workers, participating in the renovation of Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama, were injured Saturday when beams fell on a piece of equipment they were operating.Tuscaloosa Fire Rescue...
Jan 21 2020 // A recycling center that employs adults with intellectual disabilities in Alabama should have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to its workers, federal labor officials said.The U.S. Department of Labor recently...
Jan 16 2020 // A north Alabama school district is closing some of its schools this week after a tornado caused heavy damage at an elementary school, the superintendent said. A twister that forecasters determined was an EF-2 with winds up...
Jan 16 2020 // Police in Alabama are looking for a man who disguised himself as Batman while stealing musical instruments from churches.A burglary happened on Dec. 11 at King’s Way Church in Irondale, AL.Com reported. The caped...
Jan 15 2020 // The Alabama attorney general is opposing medical marijuana legislation expected to be introduced in the upcoming legislative session.In a Jan. 6 letter to lawmakers, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall called marijuana...
Jan 13 2020 // Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain...
Jan 8 2020 // Fast food workers can’t sue the Alabama attorney general over a 2016 state law that blocked a minimum wage increase in the state’s largest city, a federal appeals court ruled last month.The 11th U.S. Circuit...
Jan 8 2020 // Three boats capsized and sank Saturday during a catfishing tournament on a north Alabama lake, but no injuries were reported, authorities said.The boats were participating in the annual Winter Blues on Wheeler tournament...
Jan 6 2020 // Alabama state troopers investigated 22 traffic deaths during the recent holiday travel period.The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said in a news release that 22 people were killed in the 13-day period between Dec. 20 and...