All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 21 2013 // A University of Alabama study has found that the April 2011 tornado didn’t severely impact home foreclosures in the Tuscaloosa area.Sociologist Bronwen Lichtenstein says researchers noted a slight decrease in...
Oct 21 2013 // Alabama has received a federal grant of nearly $636,000 to help homeowners in the state’s two coastal counties retrofit their homes against wind damage. State officials and officials from Mobile and Baldwin County...
Oct 3 2013 // Tropical Storm Karen may bring more than 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain, isolated tornadoes and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast, where it is expected to go ashore over the weekend, forecasters said.Karen, with top...
Oct 3 2013 // More than half of the people killed so far this year in traffic accidents on Alabama highways were not wearing seat belts when they were available. The state Department of Public Safety reports 367 traffic deaths through...
Oct 2 2013 // A federal judge has dismissed a trademark infringement lawsuit the University of Alabama filed against an artist for painting scenes from school football games and transferring his work to other mediums.AL.com reported...
Sep 30 2013 // A jury in eastern Alabama has awarded a widow $850,000 after her husband was given three times his normal dosage of medication and died Christmas Day.AL.com reported that a jury spent hours deliberating before delivering...
Sep 9 2013 // A recent report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, a watchdog group, calls for further reforms to flood and wind insurance programs to discourage risky development and help reduce risk and taxpayer costs.The report,...
Sep 5 2013 // Federal judges have rejected Alabama State University’s appeal of a $1 million court judgment for sexual harassment.The Montgomery Advertiser reported that the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the...
Aug 15 2013 // A new report this week from the Union of Concerned Scientists, a watchdog group, warns that sea level rise and worsening storm surge are increasing both the risks of flooding in coastal communities and the potential for...
Aug 5 2013 // Gov. Robert Bentley’s administration has set up a new liability insurance plan for Alabama’s school workers who previously relied on the Alabama Education Association and other groups for coverage. How it will...
Aug 2 2013 // Residents in eight Alabama counties will have an opportunity to safeguard their homes from severe weather.Gov. Robert Bentley said Wednesday that more than $900,000 in hazard mitigation funds is available in Baldwin,...
Jul 30 2013 // Flood maps aren’t due out for Alabama until next December, but the specter of rising flood insurance premiums is undeniable.Congress, seeking to undo the damage done to the National Flood Insurance Program after...
Jul 24 2013 // Montgomery, Alabama Mayor Todd Strange said he plans to propose an ordinance to give police authority to tow vehicles belonging to unlicensed or uninsured drivers who are involved in accidents.The Montgomery Advertiser...
Jul 23 2013 // Gov. Robert Bentley’s administration has set up a new liability insurance plan for Alabama’s school workers who previously relied on the Alabama Education Association and other groups for coverage. How it will...
Jul 19 2013 // Alabama politicians said that they would consider drafting legislation to prevent people from riding in the backs of pickup trucks in the wake of a rollover accident near Guntersville.U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Anniston,...
Jul 18 2013 // Alabama Emergency Management Agency officials received an early wake-up call Tuesday and were told that a hurricane named Juliet had made landfall about 2 a.m. near Pascagoula, Miss.Hurricane Juliet wasn’t real, but...
Jul 15 2013 // Alabama’s highest court has ruled that a lawsuit involving a deadly 2005 Oklahoma airplane crash is time-barred and must be dismissed.The decision by the Alabama Supreme Court involves the second of two lawsuits...
Jul 10 2013 // The owner of a Montgomery home that was badly damaged during the search for a shooting suspect is suing to make the city and the federal government pay for thousands of dollars in repairs.WSFA-TV reported that Yakemi Ward...
Jul 3 2013 // Emergency officials in an Alabama county plan to sound tornado sirens in specific areas where storms are, and will no longer activate all sirens in the county with every tornado warning.Madison County’s system is...
Jul 1 2013 // Jefferson County, Alabama, filed a plan to end the biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy later this year by cutting $1.2 billion in principal payments to investors holding defaulted sewer-related debt.Less than $100 million of...