All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 15 2016 // An Alabama cemetery is banning people from playing the popular Pokemon Go game on its property.The president of Mobile Memorial Gardens, Timothy Claiborne, says a cemetery is supposed to be a place for peaceful reflection....
Jul 14 2016 // Police in Tuscaloosa say several young men broke into a gun store and stole between 10 and 30 guns.Police Capt. Brad Mason tells the Tuscaloosa News the break-in happened early in the morning on July 12. Mason said the men...
Jul 11 2016 // Authorities are investigating after they say someone stole a $135,000 yacht in Orange Beach, Ala.Police say the 42-foot Sea Ray called “Tide Runner” was taken from the Wharf Marina. WKRG-TV says the incident...
Jul 8 2016 // Federal court officials say an Alabama seafood company has agreed to stop processing fish after complaints were raised by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. U.S. District Court officials said in a statement July 7 that...
Jul 6 2016 // The families of two girls who were killed in a DUI crash involving a former NASA astronaut in rural west Alabama have filed wrongful-death lawsuits in state and federal courts.Authorities have said 11-year-old Niomi James...
Jul 1 2016 // Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. has been approved by the Alabama Department of Insurance to write homeowners insurance in the state through its subsidiary Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company (UPCIC). The...
Jun 30 2016 // Authorities say a doctor in Tuscaloosa, Ala., has been indicted on drug trafficking charges and faces hundreds more after a two-year investigation into his practice.The West Alabama Narcotics Task Force says in a statement...
Jun 24 2016 // An agreement that would bring Uber back to Tuscaloosa has been reached, although the city council still must give final approval next week. The Tuscaloosa News reports that most city councilors support the ride-for-hire...
Jun 20 2016 // Storms moving through Huntsville, Ala., damaged three apartment buildings severely enough to displace residents.Winter Park Apartments property manager Alejandra Chavez tells WHNT-TV that 13 families couldn’t stay in...
Jun 20 2016 // A west Alabama jury has awarded $5.5 million to relatives of a man who died when a crane toppled over in 2012.The Tuscaloosa News reports that jurors in Hale County returned the verdict May 17 in the death of 47-year-old...
Jun 16 2016 // A water system that had to tell its 10,000 customers not to drink from their taps has brought chemical contamination down to federally acceptable levels by diluting it with water from another north Alabama utility,...
Jun 6 2016 // Lisa Davis, a cashier at a Foodvalu grocery store in rural north Alabama, spent Friday, June 3, ringing up bottled water sales after a local utility declared its tap water unfit to drink because of chemical...
Jun 1 2016 // A west Alabama jury has awarded $5.5 million to relatives of a man who died when a crane toppled over in 2012.The Tuscaloosa News reports that jurors in Hale County returned the verdict May 17 in the death of 47-year-old...
May 23 2016 // A jury in northeast Alabama has returned a $20 million verdict against a local rehab hospital.The Gadsden Times reports that an Etowah County jury on May 18 found that a woman received an overdose of non-prescribed opiates...
May 23 2016 // The Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce has partnered with the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the Alabama Department of...
May 3 2016 // The family of a man killed in a 2010 helicopter accident in Fort Rucker, Alabama, has reached an $8.5 million settlement with two companies.The Dothan Eagle reports that Rolls-Royce Corporation, which was responsible for...
May 2 2016 // No injuries are being reported following a small earthquake in Alabama’s Tuscaloosa County. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 3.0 earthquake occurred around 4 a.m. Friday about halfway between Tuscaloosa...
May 2 2016 // The Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce has partnered with the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the Alabama Department of...
Apr 29 2016 // The Alabama legislature on Wednesday voted to decriminalize medicinal marijuana oil possession.In a 95-4 vote in the House of Representatives and a 29-3 vote in the Senate, legislators supported a bill supporters say is a...
Apr 27 2016 // A jury in Lauderdale County, Alabama has returned one of the largest personal injury verdicts in the county’s history, finding Dollar General at fault for injuries sustained by a Kentucky delivery driver five years...