All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 1 2014 // Emergency managers said at least 240 homes were damaged or destroyed by the tornadoes and strong storms that swept through Alabama.The Alabama Emergency Management Agency said damage has been reported in 31 of...
May 1 2014 // People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into their attics to get away from fast-rising waters when nearly 2 feet of rain fell on the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast in the span of about 24 hours, the latest bout of...
Apr 30 2014 // The Florida Panhandle and the Alabama Gulf Coast are dealing with severe flooding from torrential rains as a storm system continues to batter the Southeast.The death toll from the dozens of tornadoes, heavy rains and other...
Apr 29 2014 // Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms are expected to sweep across the U.S. South, threatening more damage to a region where dozens died in the past two days.There’s a moderate risk of severe storms, high winds and hail...
Apr 10 2014 // The director of the Alabama Securities Commission expects a new state law to make it easier to prosecute securities fraud cases that take years for the crime to emerge.Gov. Robert Bentley signed legislation this week...
Apr 10 2014 // Relatives of a University of Alabama student who drowned after falling from the Bama Belle riverboat during a 2012 sorority party have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.The Tuscaloosa News reported that Tre’ Jones...
Apr 3 2014 // Forecasters say a pair of storm systems will bring the threat of isolated tornadoes to parts of Alabama. The National Weather Service expects severe weather to move into the state late Thursday into early Friday, with...
Mar 26 2014 // A lawsuit against General Motors Co. filed this week in San Francisco seeking class action status includes plaintiffs who own cars outside GM’s recall of 1.6 million vehicles.The suit claims that a wider set of GM...
Mar 18 2014 // State fire officials say more Alabamians died this winter because of improper use of heating appliances and other issues.Spokesman for the Alabama Fire Marshal’s Office Steve Holmes tols the Anniston Star that 49...
Mar 5 2014 // The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld a jury’s $3.2 million medical malpractice judgment involving a Montgomery hospital.The court ruled on Feb. 28 that the university-affiliated Health Care Authority for Baptist...
Mar 4 2014 // Two Alberta churches that were destroyed by the tornado that decimated that section of the city on April 27, 2011, have reopened their doors after being displaced for nearly three years.“The fact that this is home is...
Feb 26 2014 // Alabama’s physician governor plans to sign legislation to put Alabama among a growing number of states enacting restrictions on teenagers using tanning salons.The Legislature gave final approval to a bill last...
Feb 18 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. said it has acquired Benefit Development Group of Selma, Alabama. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1986, Benefit Development Group (BDG) provides employee benefit...
Feb 4 2014 // Customers of a Birmingham-area jeweler are getting about $70,000 in refunds because of the Super Bowl.Jeff Dennis Jewelers in Gardendale ran a promotion offering a cash refund on purchases if either Denver or Seattle...
Feb 3 2014 // The Alabama Senate is trying to increase the penalties for alcohol-related boating deaths to the same as deaths caused by drunken car drivers. The Senate voted 18-1 last week for a bill to equalize the penalties. The...
Jan 24 2014 // A south Alabama jury has decided a farm owner should pay a former worker $4 million in damages for an on-the-job accident that left the man with skinned genitals. AL.com reported that Gerald Lymon was holding onto the boom...
Jan 24 2014 // Alabama fire officials said the state has seen an alarming increase in fire deaths.Al.com reported that 19 people have died in fires across the state so far this year. In 2012, 71 people died in Alabama fires. Only six of...
Jan 23 2014 // Willis North America said it has acquired the employee benefits consulting division of Birmingham, Alabama-based Capital Strategies Group Inc. Capital Strategies Group’s employee benefits consulting division, led by...
Jan 22 2014 // The family of a 101-year-old man who died of pneumonia after being housed in a Montgomery nursing home has been awarded $400,000.AL.com reported that an arbitrator awarded the money to the estate of John A. Garrett on Jan....
Jan 10 2014 // The freezing weather really hit home with Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley.Bentley said this week that his private home in Tuscaloosa has an estimated $50,000 in damage after a water pipe froze and burst in the attic. Bentley...