All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 29 2007 // Between 300 and 350 yellow rental port-a-potties in neat rows were melted, deformed and charred in a Theodore, Ala., fire, causing damage estimated at more than $200,000 at the Pot of Gold company, authorities said.Joel...
Aug 22 2007 // Students now starting kindergarten will be in the third grade when a state task force created after a deadly school bus wreck in Huntsville wraps up a study on whether Alabama school buses should have seat belts.The panel...
Aug 20 2007 // Eight shareholders have sued to block Montgomery, Ala-based Alfa Corp.’s $639 million proposal to buy out minority shareholders, claiming it’s an unfair price.The suit was filed in the Chancery Court of...
Aug 20 2007 // Two years after Hurricane Katrina struck, more than 1,000 storm victims in parts of Alabama’s rural south Mobile County are still waiting for housing funds to get out of trailers or damaged, patched-over...
Aug 20 2007 // Alabama state troopers issued 26,126 tickets in a five-day statewide crackdown last week aimed at reducing speeds and preventing highway deaths.The troopers wrote 11,931 tickets for speeding and 4,995 for seat belt or...
Aug 16 2007 // Governor Bob Riley is renewing his call for the State Employees Insurance Board to reject state senators’ attempts to give themselves taxpayer-subsidized health insurance.“First they gave themselves a huge pay...
Aug 15 2007 // A fire that damaged the office of an elementary school in Fairfield, Ala., was intentionally set, State Fire Marshal Ed Paulk said last week. “There is evidence of a break-in and theft, as well as the presence of an...
Jul 30 2007 // Edmond H. “Eddie” Smith IV, a flamboyant Alabama outdoorsman who was fitted with an electronic monitoring device and faces an order to pay more than $1 million in an insurance fraud case, has fled and may be in...
Jul 30 2007 // A federal judge appointed two veteran Birmingham, Ala., attorneys to prosecute a prominent Mississippi attorney and his law firm for criminal contempt in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute.In an order made public July...
Jul 23 2007 // A national study suggests Alabama’s mandatory auto insurance law has had little effect on the number of uninsured driver on state roads since the Legislature enacted it in 1999.The Insurance Research Council, a...
Jul 2 2007 // Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff joined governors from Mississippi and Alabama in appealing for Gulf Coast residents to get prepared for the height of hurricane season.Some 400 delegates to the three-day...
Jun 21 2007 // Some of the people whose lives are at stake during a hurricane are lying helpless in nursing homes and hospitals on the Alabama coast, where emergency computer and phone networks have been enhanced to help them when a...
Jun 18 2007 // The Alabama Legislature adjourned after giving final approval to a key insurance measure that will increase the state’s auto liability minimum limits from 20/40/10 to 25/50/25.Legislators deferred to the 2008 session...
Jun 14 2007 // State Forester Linda Casey issued an emergency drought declaration temporarily banning discharging fireworks in 33 Alabama counties. Alabama State Fire Marshal Ed Paulk has joined in the issuance.“The situation in...
Jun 13 2007 // The session of the Alabama Legislature that started with lawmakers giving themselves a 61 percent pay raise ended with senators passing a resolution that could give them a reduced rate on state employee health insurance...
Jun 11 2007 // Mayor Lawayne Harrison, of Leighton, Ala., who was accused of using his office for personal gain, has admitted to two minor ethics violations and faces a possible fine of up to $2,000.Ethics Commission Executive Director...
Jun 8 2007 // The Alabama Legislature adjourned yesterday after giving final approval to a key insurance measure that will increase the state’s auto liability minimum limits from 20/40/10 to 25/50/25.Legislators deferred to the...
Jun 4 2007 // With Katrina memories still fresh, Alabama Gulf Coast residents have begun stockpiling ice, water, food and other supplies just in case this hurricane season turns ugly.FEMA also will have disaster relief supplies stored...
May 14 2007 // While its outlook remains stable, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered Alfa Insurance Group’s credit and financial strength ratings to ‘A+’ from ‘AA-‘. Alfa is the...
May 7 2007 // Concrete houses sprouting up in southern Alabama, Mississippi and elsewhere in the Gulf Coast region are more than just fortified structures that will protect their owners from up to 250 mph winds and 36 foot storm surges...