All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Oct 29 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Strahle + Hess USA Inc. for exposing employees to amputation hazards at the company’s Auburn, Alabama, facility. The...
Oct 25 2019 // Insurance adjusting firm CNC Catastrophe & National Claims has added George Kattermann as senior vice president of Claims Operations.He joins the team with more than 30 years of experience in catastrophe claims and...
Oct 23 2019 // The family of an Alabama college student who died from complications of improperly prescribed birth control medication has been awarded $9 million in their wrongful death, medical malpractice suit. Court records obtained...
Oct 15 2019 // A new research project getting under way around Tuscaloosa aims to document how people react to severe weather.The University of Alabama says research sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and...
Oct 14 2019 // An Alabama hospital chain that quit accepting new patients after a malware attack crippled computer systems said it has resumed normal operations after paying a ransom demand.The DCH Health System said its hospitals in the...
Oct 7 2019 // An Alabama hospital system that quit accepting new patients after a ransomware attack said Saturday it had gotten a key to unlock its computer systems.A statement from DCH Health Systems didn’t say how the...
Oct 3 2019 // A hospital system that serves a large part of rural west Alabama temporarily quit accepting new patients after a ransomware attack crippled some of its computer systems Tuesday.Brad Fisher, a spokesman for DCH Health...
Sep 30 2019 // A company that’s facing lawsuits and public scrutiny over pollution from a north Alabama plant says it’s suspending some manufacturing work because of environmental reasons.A statement issued by 3M Co. says it...
Sep 23 2019 // Fresh water from Midwestern floods has killed oysters along the coasts of three states and cost Mississippi half of its blue crabs.Water that came through a Louisiana spillway killed 95% of the oysters in...
Sep 23 2019 // Mobile, Ala., firefighters staged more than 60 water rescues after heavy rains prompted flooding across the city.Storms that dumped more than 7 inches of rain across Mobile in a few hours left streets and parking lots...
Sep 17 2019 // A federal lawsuit accuses a major pipeline company based in Georgia of failing to tell work crews where a major underground pipeline was located before they ruptured the line, touching off a deadly explosion in Alabama.The...
Sep 12 2019 // The Alabama Department of Public Health says it’s investigating five reports of potentially severe lung disease associated with electronic cigarettes or vaping.The department told news outlets that it’s...
Aug 22 2019 // Strong storms that knocked down trees and limbs left thousands without power in north Alabama.Decatur Utilities says service was restored by early Tuesday to most of the 8,600 homes and businesses that were left in the...
Aug 21 2019 // Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline Co. has sued an Alabama contractor over a spill that threatened gasoline supplies along the East Coast three years ago.The pipeline operator contends faulty work by the Birmingham-based Ceco...
Aug 20 2019 // A federal judge has sentenced an Opelika, Alabama, woman to prison for embezzling more than $600,000 from volunteer fire departments in Alabama.U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town said Wednesday that a judge sentenced 63-year-old...