All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2023 // Environmental organizations have filed a civil rights complaint against Alabama, accusing the state of discriminating against minority communities in how it distributes funding for wastewater infrastructure, including...
Mar 1 2023 // Authorities have charged an Alabama insurance agent, who formerly worked for Alfa Insurance, with more than $600,000 in fraud, theft and exploitation of the elderly.Bret Chappell, 43, of Warrior, Alabama, was arrested...
Feb 28 2023 // North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Philip Baddour to a second six-year term as a full commissioner at the North Carolina Industrial Commission, which handles workers’ compensation claims disputes. If...
Feb 22 2023 // Sanjeev Chaudhuri, the former chief actuary at Alfa Insurance, is the new chief actuary for the Alabama Department of Insurance, the DOI announced this week. Chaudhuri has more than 20 years of experience in...
Feb 22 2023 // Ten months after a vehicle was found buried behind a barn in south Alabama, the former owner of the Hummer has been indicted by a grand jury.Bruce Parnell, of Washington County, reported the 2006 Hummer H2 stolen in 2016...
Feb 16 2023 // In a Selma neighborhood — a few blocks from the starting point of the 1965 voting rights marches — the path of a January tornado remains clear.Homes sit collapsed or missing walls and roofs. Some building are...
Feb 15 2023 // Larry Chapman Jr., recently an agent with Alfa Insurance, is the new deputy insurance commissioner for Alabama.The state Department of Insurance announced that Chapman will fill the spot left vacant by Mark Fowler, who was...
Jan 30 2023 // Federal and state officials on Friday marked the start of a $10 million project aimed at repairing and upgrading an Alabama community’s failing sewer system that has left residents dealing with pools of raw sewage at...
Jan 26 2023 // More Alabama counties are now eligible for federal help after last week’s storms and tornadoes.Emergency Management Agency Director Ernie Baggott said Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance in the designated...
Jan 20 2023 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is stepping in, at the request of Alabama officials, to help extinguish an underground landfill fire that has been burning in the state for nearly two months, Gov. Kay Ivey...
Jan 19 2023 // Alabama’s governor has appointed Mark Fowler as state insurance commissioner, elevating him from an acting commissioner position.“I am deeply thankful to Gov. Kay Ivey for the opportunity to serve as...
Jan 18 2023 // An underground fire at an Alabama landfill has continued to pollute the air in eastern parts of the Birmingham region more than 50 days after a fire began underground, according to air quality monitors.The monitors...
Jan 17 2023 // An Alabama engine mechanic took refuge in a shipping container as a tornado decimated his shop and killed two of his neighbors along its destructive path across Alabama and Georgia.The harrowing stories of David Hollon and...
Jan 13 2023 // At least seven people were killed in central Alabama and more are missing after tornadoes and severe storms left a swath of damage across parts of the South.Local news reports said that a large tornado ripped through...
Jan 11 2023 // An Alabama judge awarded Robert and Mindy Barton $900,000 for actual damages and emotional distress caused by the botched construction of their custom home, but the couple won’t be able to collect that judgment from...
Jan 3 2023 // An airport worker in Montgomery, Alabama, was killed Saturday when he was sucked into the engine of a plane.Local and state news reports said the ground crew worker, whose name has not been released, was ingested into the...
Dec 27 2022 // An underground fire has been raging at an environmental landfill near Birmingham for almost a month, covering Alabama’s largest metro area with smoke.Now, state officials, local fire departments and county...
Dec 15 2022 // Higginbotham, a national insurance broker, continues to grow with the acquisition of Burkholder Insurance Inc. in Mobile, Alabama. Higginbotham, known for its expansion through acquisitions in recent years, said the deal...
Dec 2 2022 // The twister that smashed through a small Alabama community this week, during an outbreak of tornadoes across the Deep South, killed a 39-year-old woman and her 8-year-old son on a street where generations of one family...
Dec 1 2022 // A Mississippi-based consulting firm hired to figure out Florida’s insurance company financial rating conundrum has faced scrutiny in other states after audits found improper disbursement of funds, long delays in...