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Alabama Funeral Home to Pay $12M in Lawsuit Over Lost Cremated Remains

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...

Deadly Alabama Tornado Highlights Human Safety Risk Despite Improved Forecasting

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...

Trump Visits Alabama to Survey Damage from Powerful Tornado

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...

36 Tornadoes Confirmed in Deadly Southeast Outbreak

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,...

Alabama Tornado Recovery Efforts Begin As Threat of More Storms Looms

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...

Southeast Storm System Spawned 18 Tornadoes, ‘Monster’ EF4 in Alabama

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...

Update: F3 Twister Leaves Trail of Destruction, Kills At Least 23 in Alabama

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...

Death Toll Climbs After Tornadoes Strike Southeast

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...

Alabama Water Treatment Center Chemical Spill Sends Dozens to Hospitals

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...

Several Days of Heavy Rains Soak Southeast, Cause Flooding, Road Closures

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...

Alabama Coal Firm to Pay $775K in Air Pollution Penalties

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...

S.S. Nesbitt & Co. of Alabama Renamed Valent Group

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...

Feds Order Alabama Contractor to Pay $82K in Back Wages to 17 Employees

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...

Tornadoes Cause Damage in Alabama, Florida Panhandle

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...

Alabama Chiropractor Gets 3 Years in Trucker Health Exam Fraud Case

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...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Complete Benefit Alliance of Alabama

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...

Alabama Company Recalls Sausages Contaminated with Metal Bits

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....

Judge: Alabama Sheriff Not Immune from Blogger Lawsuit

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...

Jury Awards $774K to Worker Permanently Injured at Alabama Plant

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...

2 Tornadoes Cause Damage in Alabama

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...