All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Apr 19 2016 // The Alabama Department of Mental Health decertified the owner of nine group homes in northern Alabama.State officials delivered the notice to K&D Group Home executive director Katie M. Smith that the state was...
Apr 12 2016 // An Alabama woman is suing Dollar General saying she was injured when a car crashed inside one of its stores.News outlets report that 53-year-old Deborah Renae Gilliam filed a civil lawsuit April 4 in Tuscaloosa County...
Apr 11 2016 // The National Weather Service says storm surveys show seven tornadoes skipped across central Alabama late Wednesday and early Thursday. No one was seriously hurt and most of the twisters were weak, causing only scattered...
Apr 4 2016 // Strong storms plowed through Georgia on their way to the Carolinas Friday, spawning at least one confirmed tornado, after setting off tornadoes that swirled through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.The National Weather...
Apr 4 2016 // The Alabama Supreme Court has overturned a $12.6 million judgment in a lawsuit resulting from a workplace accident.The justices sided with Dothan-based South Alabama Brick Co. in a decision released last month. A Mobile...