Latest Alabama Headlines
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Court Bars Lawsuit in Oklahoma Airplane Crash
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...
Alabama Woman Sues Over Police Search Damage to Home
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...
Alabama County Plans Site-Specific Tornado Warnings
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...
How Alabama County’s $4.2B Bankruptcy Plan Affects Insurers, Other Debtholders
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...
Carnival Files Suit Against Alabama Ship Repair Firm
Jun 19 2013 // The Carnival Corp. filed a lawsuit last week seeking more than $12 million in damage that its cruise ship, Triumph, sustained in an early April windstorm. A file photo of the cruise ship Carnival Triumph being towed into...
Alabama Officials Question Roadblock Surveys
Jun 13 2013 // Alabama’s governor and attorney general are reviewing weekend roadblocks in St. Clair and Bibb counties where motorists were asked for breath, blood and saliva samples. Gov. Robert Bentley said Tuesday he has asked...
Alabama Drivers Part of National Alcohol, Drug Test
Jun 12 2013 // Drivers in St. Clair and Bibb counties who were stopped at roadblocks in the area over last weekend were asked to give anonymous breath, saliva and blood samples as part of a national study, authorities said Monday. Giving...
Alabama Changes School Construction After Storms
Jun 11 2013 // The large amount of rebar and concrete on the construction site at Hatton High is not there by accident. Instead, it represents a change in how schools are constructed in Alabama. Three years after eight students died when...
Alabama Hurricane Planners Confront Residents’ Fading Memories
Jun 5 2013 // Memories have faded since Hurricane Ivan slammed Alabama in 2004, the last time the state suffered a direct hit from a hurricane. Most of the damage is gone, replaced by new structures or empty lots along the beach. So...
Alabama Corrects Vehicle Title Snafu
May 21 2013 // The Alabama Revenue Department said it has corrected about 15,000 Alabama car titles that were erroneously sent to vehicle owners instead of vehicle lienholders. The state Revenue Department’s motor vehicle division...
Alabama Supreme Court Upholds $3.2 Million Malpractice Verdict
May 20 2013 // The Alabama Supreme Court has reinstated a $3.2 million malpractice verdict awarded to the estate of a Montgomery woman who died in 2005 after being treated at the Baptist East Emergency Room in Montgomery. Lauree Durden...
Alabama University Launches Cyber Threat Detection Company
May 15 2013 // In a private-public partnership, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has launched Malcovery, an intelligence company specializing in cyber threat detection, to help businesses protect themselves from...
Alabama County Bankruptcy Workout a Test for Municipal Bondholders
May 8 2013 // Alabama’s Jefferson County will brief a federal judge on Thursday on its progress toward exiting from bankruptcy, as the county appears likely to become the first big U.S. local government to impose losses on...
New Homeowners Insurance Program Available to Coastal Residents in Alabama
May 6 2013 // Frontline Homeowners Insurance, a coastal-focused insurer, is now offering wind and flood coverage to Alabama residents with coastal properties in Mobile and Baldwin Counties. Frontline Homeowners Insurance offers a...
Alabama Museum Exhibit Recalls 2011 Tornadoes
Apr 11 2013 // An oral history of the tornadoes that devastated Tuscaloosa and the surrounding area on April 27, 2011, will be exhibited later this month at the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum. The exhibit,...
Alabama Governor Says State Will Not Enforce Federal Health Law’s Protections
Apr 8 2013 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has rejected another provision of the federal health care overhaul pushed by President Barack Obama, saying Alabama insurance regulators won’t enforce parts of the law aimed at protecting...
Crews Secure Cruise Ship That Tore Loose in Alabama
Apr 5 2013 // The crippled cruise ship whose sewage-filled breakdown in the Gulf of Mexico subjected thousands to horrendous conditions tore loose Wednesday from the dock where it’s being repaired, lumbered downriver and crunched...
Seat Belts Not Buckled in 59% of Alabama Car Crash Fatalities
Apr 4 2013 // Alabama Department of Transportation officials said more than half of the people killed in car crashes last year were not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident. State officials released a report based on...
Court Dismisses Alabama Catholic TV Station’s Suit Against Obamacare
Apr 2 2013 // An Alabama-based religious broadcasting organization is reviewing its options after a federal judge dismissed its lawsuit challenging part of the new federal health care law. U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn...
Relatives Sue Over University of Alabama Cheerleader Bus Crash
Apr 1 2013 // A family is suing over a fatal crash involving a bus that was carrying University of Alabama cheerleaders back to campus after the national championship football game in January. A statement released by the Beasley Allen...
