All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 6 2017 // A small earthquake has struck northeastern Alabama near the Georgia line. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a magnitude 2.6 earthquake occurred Friday morning. The quake was centered in a rural area about 7 miles...
May 31 2017 // An Alabama doctor was sentenced on Friday to 21 years in prison for running two clinics with a colleague that prosecutors called a massive “pill mill,” in a case tied to the U.S. probe of Insys Therapeutics...
May 30 2017 // A statewide framework to regulate ridesharing firms such as Uber and Lyft stalled in the Alabama Legislature, and it’s unclear when such companies could begin to launch new service in Alabama communities.Uber,...
May 18 2017 // Alabama’s workers’ compensation law, ruled unconstitutional by a county judge last week, will remain in effect for the immediate future.The Alabama judge who on May 8 declared the state’s workers’...
May 18 2017 // FCCI Insurance Group (FCCI), a provider of commercial property and casualty insurance, has promoted Tiffany Hawkins to regional vice president, and Trey Stone to assistant vice president in the Gulf Coast Regional office...
May 11 2017 // A judge has ruled that two statutes of the Alabama Workmans Compensation Act are unconstitutional, thereby rendering the entire act unconstitutional because of a non-severability statute.The Gadsden Times reports Jefferson...
May 9 2017 // An Alabama man has been arrested on charges of stealing more than $180,000 from former employers.AL.com reports the FBI arrested 32-year-old Randall Sho Woods on May 3. The Department of Justice says in a release that a...
May 1 2017 // The National Weather Service has sent out teams to look for damage and confirm where tornadoes might have touched down in the state.Al.com reports that the weather service was sending survey teams to Montgomery, Lee, Pike...
Apr 26 2017 // Overcast skies and a misty rain mirrored the mood of this tiny community as it came together to remember the 14 Lawrence County residents who died in the April 27, 2011, tornadoes.“They will never be...
Apr 12 2017 // Authorities are investigating a series of fires in the City of Birmingham, Alabama, set from September 2016 to present. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has released a statement seeking information...
Apr 10 2017 // Stephens Insurance, LLC, an affiliate of Stephens Inc., has opened a property & casualty brokerage office in Birmingham, Ala.The new team—made up of Tice Young, Donna Sanford, James Kennedy and Marty Hall—brings...
Apr 5 2017 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley declared a statewide State of Emergency on Tuesday in anticipation of severe weather expected through Alabama on Wednesday. The National Weather Service forecast a significant threat of severe...
Apr 2 2017 // Grease and sewage from a nearby Waffle House caused thousands of dollars in damage when it seeped onto an Alabama man’s property, he said in a lawsuit.Mack Crook Jr. of Anniston is seeking $800,000 from Norcross,...
Mar 28 2017 // Police in Alabama’s two largest beach towns say they’re arrested more than 450 spring breakers so far this year, and that’s a big improvement from last year.Police in both Orange Beach and Gulf Shores are...
Mar 27 2017 // A woman who was hurt in a car crash that ended a police chase more than three years ago can’t sue the officers or the suburban Birmingham city where it occurred, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday.The justices...
Mar 22 2017 // Alabama officials have confirmed bird flu in two poultry flocks, just a week after three commercial breeders had to kill their chickens across the state line in Tennessee.The state veterinarian announced that chickens are...
Mar 21 2017 // Authorities are trying to determine whether a series of break-ins at mosques in Alabama might be linked to a similar case in Virginia based partly on similarities shown in surveillance photos, officials said Friday.Images...
Mar 9 2017 // The Alabama Supreme Court says workers who claim they were injured by a tool at a shipyard in Mobile can go ahead with their lawsuit against the shipbuilder.The justices on Friday refused to order a lower court to dismiss...
Mar 6 2017 // “We didn’t know it was coming.”April Taylor heard that again and again, and she didn’t understand it. Taylor, a social scientist, was working on trauma recovery in DeKalb County in northeast Alabama...
Mar 1 2017 // Two doctors who operated a pain management clinic on the Alabama coast are facing time in federal prison after being convicted of running what authorities describe as a pill mill.Jurors in Mobile returned the verdict Feb....