All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 5 2018 // Authorities in Alabama say nine people were injured when a deck collapsed during a house fire.Birmingham Fire Battalion Chief Sebastian Carrillo tells local news outlets that the accident happened Saturday night when a...
Dec 3 2018 // Local developers in coastal Alabama that utilized Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety’s (IBHS) FORTIFIED Commercial construction standards in the design of a coastal condominium complex have earned the...
Nov 27 2018 // An Alabama steel company is being fined more than $320,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration over hazardous working conditions. Al.com reports OSHA announced the fine Nov. 13 for Montgomery-based Sabel...
Nov 26 2018 // The Alabama Department of Health says that red tide has been found in water samples taken near Orange Beach and Gulf Shores.WKRG-TV reports the department says water samples taken from Alabama Point to Little Lagoon Pass...
Nov 14 2018 // Rain and the threat of flooding continue across the northern Gulf Coast.Forecasters say unofficial rainfall totals show parts of Alabama received as much as 3.5 inches (9 centimeters) of precipitation Monday, and it was...
Nov 13 2018 // Five Alabama high school football players were injured in a locker room when a brick wall collapsed onto them while they were getting ready for a game.News outlets report that the Oakman High School players were in the...
Nov 8 2018 // The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has utilized construction standards from the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety’s (IBHS) FORTIFIED Commercial in the creation of new...
Nov 7 2018 // Four south Alabama counties have been declared a disaster area because of damage from Hurricane Michael last month.The governor’s office says President Donald Trump has issued a disaster declaration that includes...
Nov 2 2018 // Hurricane Michael left a snowy landscape of ruined white cotton on Georgia’s red clay, destroying a crop and likely bringing hard times to the region’s many small communities built on agriculture.When the storm...
Nov 1 2018 // State troopers say seven children have been injured in a school bus crash in Alabama. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Baker tells news outlets six children were released after being treated for minor...
Oct 31 2018 // The Southeastern United States is mostly free of drought, but a new federal assessment shows conditions are worsening slightly in Georgia and Alabama. A new map released last week by the U.S. Drought Monitor shows about...
Oct 30 2018 // An Alabama woman who claimed in a lawsuit that she was cyberbullied has been awarded $10,000 in damages.The Tuscaloosa News reports Victoria Love was awarded the money Oct. 23 by a Tuscaloosa County jury in her suit...
Oct 26 2018 // A crash between an Alabama school bus and a passenger vehicle has killed one person in the vehicle and injured 11 on the bus.State Police Trooper Cpl. Jimmy Harrell tells AL.com 31-year-old Amanda Nicole Hubbard died in...
Oct 16 2018 // President Donald Trump has approved federal disaster aid relief for four Alabama counties affected by Hurricane Michael.The emergency disaster declaration covers Dale, Geneva, Henry and Houston counties, which are near the...
Oct 9 2018 // Michael is forecast to become the second hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. in a month as it heads toward Florida with winds of 90 miles per hour.The fast-moving storm has already sent cotton prices to a one-week high...
Oct 5 2018 // The government says 38 people in seven states have gotten sick from eggs produced by an Alabama poultry farm.The Food and Drug Administration says the illnesses are linked to salmonella-tainted eggs from Gravel Ridge...
Sep 28 2018 // Flash floods trapped people in homes and vehicles in north Alabama on Wednesday, as heavy rain in Mississippi caused flash flooding that inundated about 100 homes and 25 businesses and one person died and emergency...
Sep 27 2018 // One person is dead following an explosion at a chemical plant in north Alabama.Arab Fire Chief Ricky Phillips tells WHNT-TV that a contract worker died in a blast that happened Tuesday at Umicore Specialty Chemicals in...
Sep 19 2018 // S.S. Nesbitt, a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries Inc., has appointed Senior Vice President L. Dickerson (Dick) Fountain as Market executive in Huntsville, Ala.Over the past year, S.S....
Sep 18 2018 // Tower Hill Specialty insurance products for homeowners are now available in Alabama, as the Ohio-based company expands its regional focus in the Southeast. Specializing in personal lines property products, Tower Hill...