All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jan 2 2020 // A north Alabama school system has taken the first step to sue 3M Co. over claims that chemicals are leaking from a closed landfill that is on school system property.News outlets reported that Decatur’s school system...
Dec 30 2019 // Firefighters rescued five construction workers who fell during a floor collapse at a work site near the University of Alabama campus Thursday. The workers were on the ground floor level at a site near Tutwiler Hall when...
Dec 27 2019 // Warning sirens failed to sound before a tornado struck a north Alabama community last week, killing two people, but officials said it probably wouldn’t have mattered even if they had.The area where an EF-2 tornado...
Dec 23 2019 // Daylight broke Tuesday (Dec. 18) on Colbert Heights mountain in Alabama to reveal the damage and destruction that a late Monday afternoon tornado left in its wake.Some work crews even beat the daylight to the area as the...
Dec 19 2019 // Reality TV star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian West is suing an Alabama doctor over claims he wrongly used her image to promote a medical procedure called a “Vampire Facial.”West filed suit Tuesday in Los...
Dec 19 2019 // A swarm of tornadoes and storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured at least a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes...
Dec 18 2019 // A swarm of tornadoes and storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes...
Dec 11 2019 // Medical workers treated nearly a dozen people and firefighters evacuated a building Monday after a chemical reaction caused injuries inside a manufacturing plant.The Montgomery Fire Department said the incident happened...
Nov 25 2019 // Huntsville, Ala., housing officials aren’t saying what they will do about independent testing that found high levels of radioactive gas in public housing.Al.com reports that the testing found high levels of radon in...
Nov 18 2019 // An Alabama appellate court has cleared the way for a lawsuit that alleges outrageous and fraudulent conduct by American International Group and Coventry against a worker who was injured in an explosion and sought...
Nov 14 2019 // Tornado researchers want to know more about how tornadoes form from squall lines in the Wiregrass region of Alabama and Georgia.That part of the South is of interest to Chris Weiss, a professor of atmospheric science at...
Nov 12 2019 // The federal government announced $800 million in aid Friday to farmers in three southern states that were devastated by last year’s hurricanes.Nearly half that money will go to Florida, where timber farmers suffered...
Nov 6 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor says it’s fined a construction company approximately $32,000 for not properly protecting against falls at an Alabama work site.Al.com reports the labor department’s Occupational...
Nov 4 2019 // An Alabama appellate court has cleared the way for a lawsuit that alleges outrageous and fraudulent conduct by American International Group and Coventry against a worker who was injured in an explosion and sought...
Oct 31 2019 // Officials say a fire at an Alabama warehouse is the most disastrous in the city of Attalla’s history.Alabama State Fire Marshal Scott Pilgreen told the Gadsden Times Friday that investigators estimate warehouse...
Oct 29 2019 // Alabama Power Company has agreed to pay about $222,000 to settle a chemical spill that killed hundreds of fish near its coal-fired plant about 30 miles northwest of Birmingham, according to a notice Wednesday from the...