All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 16 2015 // Alabama lawmakers won’t bar teens from riding in the back of pickup trucks after most acknowledged they’ve ridden back there too.The Alabama House of Representatives refused to debate a bill last week that...
Apr 14 2015 // Alabama’s Auburn University aviation center plans to offer courses about how to fly drones.The school said last week it has received federal approval to operate a new Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight School as part...
Apr 10 2015 // As tornado season begins in the Tennessee Valley, the National Weather Service is implementing a warning system designed to give more specific information on approaching storms.Piloted last year in the Midwest, the...
Apr 8 2015 // The daughter of former University of Alabama Athletic Director Mal Moore has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against two companies that manufactured, promoted and sold a heart medication he took. Heather Moore Cooke filed...
Feb 17 2015 // A man from India who was slammed to the ground by a police officer had been singled out by police after a caller said a “skinny black guy” with a toboggan hat was walking in the neighborhood and peering into...
Feb 3 2015 // Alabama authorities say a tractor-trailer crashed on Interstate 20 near Tuscaloosa because the driver lost control while he was pulling one of his teeth. The Alabama Highway Patrol says the truck driver told troopers he...
Jan 30 2015 // The ridesharing service Uber has left Auburn, Ala. in its rearview mirror.The Opelika-Auburn News reported that the popular service that lets users book rides using a mobile app sent emails to drivers and customers last...
Jan 9 2015 // The National Weather Service is checking the damage from a weekend of rough weather in Alabama. Officials confirmed Monday that a weak tornado touched down in west Alabama in Hamilton on Saturday evening. A twister with 85...
Jan 5 2015 // When it comes to weather in Alabama, no matter what time of year, there’s just one thing to do: “Prepare for it to be bad.”That’s according to Kevin Laws, the science and operations officer at the...
Dec 30 2014 // Fire deaths are up slightly this year in Alabama over 2013. The state fire marshal’s office said 86 people have died in fires so far this year in the state. That’s four more fatalities than during the same...
Dec 24 2014 // Fire deaths are up slightly this year in Alabama over 2013.The state fire marshal’s office says 86 people have died in fires so far this year in the state. That’s four more fatalities than during the same...
Dec 3 2014 // A new study says oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is still trapped in Alabama’s beaches four years later.The report was released by Auburn University researchers who’ve been studying the BP oil spill...
Nov 25 2014 // A Montgomery County jury has awarded a woman more than $30,000 in damages after she accused a jeweler of swapping a diamond she wanted to re-purpose with one of lesser value. WSFA-TV reported that the Alabama jury awarded...
Nov 14 2014 // An Alabama state board this week rejected a $1 million claim filed by the parents of a slain Auburn University student, who said their daughter might still be alive if the university had maintained its own police force at...
Nov 11 2014 // Nature and a multimillion dollar rock pile built in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill have healed a large barrier island nine years after it was sliced in two by Hurricane Katrina.Katrina swamped Alabama’s...
Nov 11 2014 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, announced that Crawford McInnis, Brian Tanner and Wilson Long have joined the firm as principals in...
Nov 9 2014 // Dr. Lars Powell has been named the inaugural director of the newly-created Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at The University of Alabama.Powell is a professor of finance and holds the Whitbeck-Beyer...
Oct 28 2014 // Alabama consumers will see more competition when the health insurance marketplace opens next month for its second year.United Healthcare took a cautious approach to the marketplaces the first year and chose not to...
Oct 23 2014 // Agency acquirer AssuredPartners Inc. of St. Mary, Florida, has purchased the assets of Turner & Hamrick, LLC, headquartered in Troy, Alabama.The Alabama agency specializes in insurance for the trucking industry, in...
Oct 16 2014 // Federal prosecutors said three people have been convicted of fraudulently filing Gulf Oil Spill Fund loss claims.Officials said 53-year-old Marcella Truss, her 42-year-old husband Martee Davis and the woman’s...