All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2013 // Alabama officials are trying to cut down on competition from Mississippi and Florida for Airbus suppliers by limiting lawsuits against commercial aircraft manufacturers and companies that supply them with parts. The Senate...
Feb 25 2013 // Alabama’s new chief justice, Roy Moore, said the state judicial system is in danger and conditions will worsen if the Legislature approves a budget recommended by the governor.Moore said the system already is...
Feb 25 2013 // Some of the money that Alabama receives from BP over the Gulf oil spill could end up helping coastal residents make their homes more resistant to wind damage from hurricanes.That is one of the recommendations from a...
Feb 25 2013 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has finally released the long-awaited report by a commission to study what to do about insurance availability and prices. Bentley first created the commission on April 6, 2011 – almost two...
Feb 25 2013 // Hundreds of property/casualty insurance companies have not registered with Alabama regulators as required, prompting the state insurance department to issue a warning and extend the registration deadline to March 31.The...
Feb 15 2013 // Some of the money that Alabama receives from BP over the Gulf oil spill could end up helping coastal residents make their homes more resistant to wind damage from hurricanes.That is one of the recommendations from a...
Feb 12 2013 // Air National Guard Maj. Zane Purdy was making more than $100,000 a year working for a defense contracting company when his identity was stolen and sold to a tax fraud ring.Now, Purdy makes $7.25 an hour at a Krystal...
Feb 8 2013 // Hundreds of property/casualty insurance companies have not registered with Alabama regulators as required, prompting the state insurance department to issue a warning and extend the registration deadline to March 31.The...
Feb 6 2013 // BP Plc has tallied up claims made by states and local governments on the U.S. Gulf Coast for economic and property damages from the Macondo oil spill, and come up with a figure of $34 billion, which it deems...
Jan 22 2013 // An Alabama school system on the Gulf Coast says it’s filing a claim seeking compensation for lost revenues blamed on the BP oil spill in 2009. WKRG-TV reported that attorneys for the Baldwin County public schools...
Jan 11 2013 // Participants in a heavily attended Statehouse summit in Montgomery on school safety agreed Wednesday that taking steps to prevent tragedies like the Connecticut shooting massacre will be a priority when the Alabama...
Dec 27 2012 // Authorities were getting a clearer picture of the damage done by storms in Alabama as daylight revealed the extent of the destruction.In Mobile’s downtown area, a school, church and several homes were damaged by a...
Dec 26 2012 // The owners of the 900,000 Alabama vehicles without liability insurance stand a better chance of getting caught starting Jan. 1.That’s when the state will start enforcing a law designed to crack down on motorists who...
Dec 13 2012 // CNA Financial Corp. appointed Rocco Orlando as the vice president for its Birmingham, Alabama, branch office.Rocco comes to CNA from The Hartford Financial Services Group where he served as regional vice president...
Dec 10 2012 // The Alabama Supreme Court has changed a 57-year-old standard on how commercial vehicle owners get compensated when their vehicle is totaled in an accident. The court held in 1955 that an owner who recovered damages for the...
Dec 10 2012 // The new president of the Alabama Farmers Federation and Alfa Insurance is fine with where the sister organizations are politically. It’s the huge drop in insurance customers he wants to change.Chilton County farmer...
Nov 27 2012 // Forecasters say 2012 has been a below-average year for tornadoes in Alabama, at least so far. While Alabama has 40 tornadoes in an average year, the National Weather Service said only 32 tornadoes occurred in the state...
Nov 26 2012 // An Alabama lawmaker is again pushing legislation that would let employees take handguns to work.State Sen. Roger Bedford, D-Russellville, says his bill is aimed at increasing personal safety, reported The Montgomery...
Nov 21 2012 // Thanksgiving week is a dangerous time to be on the road, although it is becoming safer.Speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol, time of day and weather all contribute to more fatal crashes throughout the year, but...
Nov 12 2012 // Nearly two dozen groups in Alabama will share more than $8 million in oil spill funds to promote Gulf Coast tourism and seafood.The administrator of the claims process for the 2010 oil spill, Patrick Juneau, announced the...