All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 14 2019 // The daughter of an Alabama woman whose cremated remains were lost by a funeral home has been awarded $12 million.Al.com reports the jury verdict was announced Monday after Pine Crest Funeral Home in Mobile lost the remains...
Mar 11 2019 // Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong.Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that...
Mar 11 2019 // Standing near the slab that’s all that is left of one family’s garage, President Donald Trump on Friday surveyed the devastation wrought by a powerful tornado that ripped through a rural Alabama town, uprooting...
Mar 8 2019 // The number of tornadoes confirmed to have touched down in a deadly weekend outbreak across the Southeast has risen to at least 36. Survey teams for the National Weather Service found evidence of the twisters in Alabama,...
Mar 7 2019 // All those listed as missing have been found and searches ended with no additional bodies discovered among the shattered homes, splintered pines and broken lives devastated by a tornado in rural Alabama, leaving the death...
Mar 6 2019 // Picking through the twisted debris that had been her Alabama mobile home, Carol Dean found her wedding dress and a Father’s Day note to her husband reading, “Daddy, I love you to pieces.”Her husband was...
Mar 5 2019 // Rescuers searched for victims Monday amid homes smashed to their foundations, shredded metal dangling from trees and dead animals lying in the open after a tornado ripped through a rural Alabama community and killed at...
Mar 5 2019 // An apparent tornado roared into southeast Alabama and killed at least 14 people and injured several others Sunday, part of a severe storm system that destroyed homes, snapped trees and unleashed other tornadoes around the...
Mar 4 2019 // More than 50 people were sent to hospitals around Birmingham, Alabama, following a chemical spill at a water treatment plant.Authorities tell news outlets that irritating gas caused by a mixture of ferric sulfate and...
Feb 25 2019 // Homes, highways, parks and bridges throughout the South were flooded or put out of commission Saturday, as the toll of days of drenching rains swelled waterways and pooled over saturated lands amid a threat of severe...
Feb 21 2019 // One of Alabama’s largest coal companies has agreed to pay $775,000 in penalties related to air pollution violations near Birmingham.Al.com reported Feb 12. that the proposed Drummond Company settlement comes nearly...
Feb 7 2019 // EBSCO Industries, Inc. (EBSCO), a privately held global company, has renamed its risk consulting and insurance division to Valent Group.Previously known as S.S. Nesbitt & Co., the firm has been a part of the EBSCO...
Feb 6 2019 // An Alabama company has paid $82,515 in back wages and fringe benefits to 17 employees following a federal investigation into labor law violations. Al.com reports Marathon Electrical Contractors, based in Irondale, was...
Jan 22 2019 // Homes, businesses, government offices and churches were among the buildings badly damaged or demolished when tornadoes struck central Alabama over the weekend.The severe weather hit Saturday and another tornado was...
Jan 15 2019 // An Alabama-based chiropractor, who was accused in a scheme to conduct fraudulent physical examinations on prospective long-haul truckers and submit false documents to federal transportation regulators, has been sentenced...
Jan 11 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Complete Benefit Alliance, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1997, Complete Benefit Alliance (CBA) is a full-service benefits enrollment and...
Jan 3 2019 // An Alabama company has recalled tons of hot sausages because they may be contaminated with bits of metal.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recall notice says it has not had any reports of injury from the R.L....
Dec 27 2018 // A federal judge says a blogger can sue an Alabama sheriff for allegedly trying to silence her criticism of the officer.The Decatur Daily reports that U.S. District Judge Madeline Haikala ruled that Morgan County Sheriff...
Dec 11 2018 // A man permanently injured at an Alabama manufacturing plant in 2015 has been awarded $774,000. Al.com reported Dec. 5 that a jury has decided Italian company Tenax SPA should pay punitive and compensatory damages to Tenax...
Dec 6 2018 // The National Weather Service says it has confirmed that two tornadoes touched down in Alabama last weekend.The emergency management director for Dothan and Houston County, Chris Judah, says a weak twister hit Dothan early...