All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 14 2014 // The parents of slain Auburn University student Lauren Burk are asking the Alabama Board of Adjustment to award them $1 million because they say Auburn did not provide adequate security. Jim Burk and Viviane Guerchon told...
Oct 14 2014 // The former FBI chief appointed to investigate the BP oil spill claims process is seeking the return of nearly $240,000 from an Alabama man and his maritime business.Louis Freeh, in a federal court filing, says the man...
Oct 7 2014 // Alabama’s Labor Department has agreed to work with the U.S. Department of Labor to crack down on businesses that classify people as independent contractors when they are really regular employees.Alabama Labor...
Oct 6 2014 // The former owner of a Mountain Brook, Alabama jewelry store has agreed to plead guilty in a missing diamonds case. Court documents filed last Friday show Joseph Harold Gandy of Vestavia Hills has agreed to plead guilty to...
Oct 6 2014 // Last month marked the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Ivan, one of the costliest tropical storms to ever hit the U.S. Ivan came ashore near Gulf Shores, Alabama, on Sept. 16, 2004, as a Category 3 storm. The storm also...
Oct 3 2014 // The state fire marshal says 69 people have died in fires in Alabama so far this year.According to Fire Marshal Ed Paulk, 28 of those deaths occurred in January. Gov. Robert Bentley has declared October as “Fire...
Sep 29 2014 // When Darryle Brown woke up in the dark hours of an early December morning, he heard an explosion.Suddenly, Brown was on fire and trapped underneath an eight-inch-thick concrete slab – the floor of his...
Sep 24 2014 // The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety has recognized three South Mississippi home builders for building homes that are more disaster-resistant.IBHS also recognized three homes in south Alabama. In January,...
Sep 23 2014 // A state court judge sided with Alabama Gas Corp. and blocked the Montgomery Advertiser from publishing information about the utility’s plan for gas line safety, which the Alabama Public Service Commission released...
Sep 19 2014 // Tuscaloosa, Alabama police are using undercover operations to nab drivers with the Uber ride-sharing service.Police said Wednesday a two-night sting last week resulted in a 50-year-old Mississippi woman getting tickets for...
Sep 18 2014 // This week marks the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Ivan, one of the costliest tropical storms to ever hit the U.S. Ivan came ashore near Gulf Shores, Alabama, on Sept. 16, 2004, as a Category 3 storm. The storm also...
Sep 11 2014 // An Alabama man has refiled his lawsuit claiming a botched circumcision led to the amputation of his penis.An attorney for Johnny Lee Banks Jr. filed an amended complaint this past Monday. It comes about a month after a...
Sep 11 2014 // Accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Crowe Horwath must face a lawsuit accusing them of professional malpractice and breach of contract for not catching a fraud that led to the 2009 collapse of Colonial Bank, a...
Aug 25 2014 // Business isn’t buying the Alabama Supreme Court’s attempt to limit the fallout from its decision saying brand-name drugmakers can be held liable for warnings on generic medication produced by other companies.A...
Aug 22 2014 // A Walker County, Alabama jury has awarded a Carbon Hill woman millions of dollars in a medical malpractice suit against a doctor who mistook symptoms that led to her husband’s heart attack for a stomach...
Aug 17 2014 // Brand-name drug makers can be held liable for warnings on a generic medication even if it was produced by another company, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday, standing by an earlier decision that business leaders...
Aug 11 2014 // An Alabama law passed to rein in health care costs nearly three decades ago was at the heart of a judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit over what a man claims was a botched circumcision.Circuit Judge Jim Hughey III...
Aug 5 2014 // A lobbyist for the National Rifle Association said the gun lobby expects to support legislation in Alabama next year allowing people to carry a loaded handgun in their car without a permit.NRA lobbyist Michael Sullivan...
Aug 4 2014 // The Madison County Sheriff’s Department has reached a settlement with a Tennessee man who said he was beaten by several deputies and wrongfully arrested after an argument at a bar. Attorney Hank Sherrod said that he...
Aug 1 2014 // Miami-based broker-dealer Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. said it has acquired Highland Capital Brokerage Inc., an independent life, annuities and long term care insurance brokerage, for $42 million.Highland,...