All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 13 2017 // The remnants of Hurricane Irma forced Atlanta’s international airport – the world’s busiest passenger airport – to cancel nearly 200 flights early Tuesday. The storm also claimed two lives in...
Sep 5 2017 // Harvey spread its misery across the Deep South as flooded creeks drove people from their homes in Tennessee and Kentucky and an apparent tornado damaged homes and toppled trees in a rural area of northwest Alabama.More...
Sep 1 2017 // Rains from Harvey are inundating coastal Alabama with floodwaters and forcing the Tennessee Valley Authority to lower lake levels in north Alabama.Authorities say numerous roads were covered with water in Mobile and...
Aug 30 2017 // S.S. Nesbitt & Co. Inc., a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries Inc., has appointed insurance veteran Paul Barber as president.Barber comes to S.S. Nesbitt after having spent 25 years in a...
Aug 24 2017 // EBSCO Industries Inc. (EBSCO) has hired insurance veteran Phillip Moultrie as vice president of client services for its insurance brokerage, S.S. Nesbitt (SSN), based in Birmingham, Ala.Moultrie’s immediate focus...
Aug 21 2017 // Eleven Alabama counties are under a natural disaster designation after excessive rainfall and flooding from Tropical Storm Cindy. The conditions caused extensive damage to crops, sparking Gov. Kay Ivey to ask for federal...
Aug 15 2017 // Don Cook was asleep in his Hillwood home when the security alarm on his phone woke him up just past midnight.Three burglars were trying to break into his car. The burglars had tripped the surveillance camera on the side of...
Aug 1 2017 // A plant that produces agricultural chemicals caught fire Saturday in southwest Alabama, blanketing the area with potentially hazardous smoke and prompting an order for people to stay inside.Police said the fire began...
Jul 24 2017 // Orchid Underwriters Agency, LLC, a specialty underwriter of catastrophic coastal insurance, announced that it expanded its Commercial Lines business to two new states: Alabama and Mississippi.The two new states join New...
Jul 24 2017 // Alabama and Mississippi are completely free from drought for the first time in more than a year.A federal assessment released at the end of June showed rains eliminated a dry spell that began in April 2016, the last time...
Jul 24 2017 // London Underwriters LLC, a national MGA and surplus lines broker, has partnered with Birmingham based wholesaler Trigon Inc., to provide a new and exclusive low-value homeowners program for the state of Alabama.The product...
Jul 19 2017 // An 11-year-old cow in Alabama tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday.The cow tested positive for the atypical...
Jul 18 2017 // Police in five Southeastern states are launching a weeklong program to reduce summertime wrecks and traffic deaths.“Operation Southern Shield” started Monday in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and...
Jul 12 2017 // Alabama and Mississippi are completely free from drought for the first time in more than a year.A federal assessment released at the end of June showed rains eliminated a dry spell that began in April 2016, the last time...
Jun 26 2017 // Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Cindy covered timberland and fields across the rural Deep South on Saturday, but the sun peeked out enough to offer hope that the worst was over.Swollen by heavy rains and flowing quickly,...
Jun 26 2017 // Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is asking for federal assistance for farmers because of crop losses from Tropical Storm Cindy.Ivey sent a letter Friday to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue asking for a disaster...
Jun 26 2017 // London Underwriters LLC, a national MGA and surplus lines broker, has partnered with Birmingham based wholesaler Trigon Inc., to provide a new and exclusive low-value homeowners program for the state of Alabama.The product...
Jun 23 2017 // A highly contagious bacterial disease that seriously threatens the U.S. citrus industry has been found for the first time in Alabama.Federal and state plant officials confirm that citrus greening was found in leaf and...
Jun 22 2017 // Tropical Storm Cindy churned slowly on Wednesday across the Gulf of Mexico toward an expected landing on the Texas-Louisiana border, after claiming the life of a vacationing child and threatening to bring flash floods from...
Jun 22 2017 // Officials say an accident at a coal mine near Birmingham, Ala., has left one person dead.A statement from the West Virginia-based Seneca Coal Resources says a rail-hauling accident happened Monday night at the...