Latest Alabama Headlines
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Gulf Coast Shrimpers Sue Oil Firm BP, Drilling Platform Owners Over Spill
Apr 30 2010 // Shrimpers in Louisiana and Alabama have filed class-action lawsuits against oil giant BP Plc and owners of the drilling platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, as claims for economic losses anticipated from the...
Spat Over Negligence Presumption Kills Alabama Texting Driver Ban
Apr 28 2010 // Drivers can keep sending text messages while traveling Alabama’s highways because a fight between an insurance company and lawyers in the state Senate killed a bill to ban the dangerous practice. Democratic Sen....
Tornadoes Rip Southern States; 10 Dead; 1,000 Homes Destroyed
Apr 26 2010 // Dozens of tornadoes left a path of destruction more than 50 miles long throughout the southern U.S.—including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee—over the weekend. Ten people were...
Alabama Trucking Firm in Kentucky Fatal Crash Flunked Safety Rating
Apr 2 2010 // An Alabama trucking company involved in a crash that killed 11 people in Kentucky had a poor safety rating from federal regulators, repeatedly failing roadside inspections. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration...
Alabama Counties Face Binge Drinking Problem
Mar 23 2010 // Jay Patel stands behind the counter at his Discount Liquors store here on Lake Weiss, waiting as a customer tries to decide just how much Jack Daniels he can afford. “Not that one,” the young man says as Patel...
Insurers Restricting Coastal Exposure
Mar 7 2010 // The coastal home insurance market continues to tighten. State Farm is only writing a new homeowners policy in Mississippi if another is dropped and Allstate has stopped writing mobile homes on the South Carolina coast....
U.S. Seeks Reimbursements from $300 Million PCB Settlement in Alabama
Mar 3 2010 // The federal government is seeking Medicare reimbursements from lawyers, manufacturers and insurers that were involved in a $300 million settlement over widespread PCB contamination in the east Alabama city of Anniston. A...
Contractor Settles with Alabama School System for $9M
Feb 22 2010 // Volkert & Associates Inc. has agreed to give the Mobile County Public School System $9 million to settle a 6-year-old lawsuit involving some schools where Volkert oversaw construction. School officials sued Volkert,...
Alabama Motel Owner Sued Over Fire Deaths
Jan 27 2010 // A wrongful death lawsuit contends a Hoover motel owner and maintenance man are to blame for the deaths of four Mississippi college students in a fire earlier this month. The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court...
Alabama House Passes Ban on Driver Texting
Jan 15 2010 // The Alabama Legislature has taken the first step toward banning drivers from sending or writing a text message while operating a vehicle on a public road. The House Public Safety Committee approved a bill this week that...
Alabama Lawmakers Favor Ban on Driver Texting: Poll
Jan 8 2010 // State Rep. Ken Guin says Alabama needs to ban people from text messaging while driving a motor vehicle, and a recent experience with a driver swerving “all over the road” is a reason why. “I started to...
Alabama Sees Decline in Highway Deaths
Dec 29 2009 // Alabama Gov. Bob Riley is crediting state efforts for driving down the number of highway deaths in Alabama. Officials are anticipating a 35 percent decrease since 2006 in the number of state trooper-investigated highway...
Special Reuters Report: America’s Route to Recovery
Dec 29 2009 // When Bob Hagan was a boy in Youngstown, Ohio, people equated the coke dust they swept off their doorsteps each day with opportunity, for it came from the steel mills that built this city. After graduating from high school...
Alabama Jury Finds CSX Not Liable for Fatal Train Crash
Dec 16 2009 // An Alabama jury has sided with a railroad in a series of lawsuits filed by the relatives of four men killed in a train crash almost three years ago. Chilton County jurors ruled in favor of CSX Transportation, deciding the...
TAPCO Underwriters Expands Into Alabama and Louisiana
Dec 3 2009 // Insurance agents in Alabama and Louisiana may now access the services provided by TAPCO Underwriters Inc. (TAPCO), a Burlington, N.C.-based MGA that specializes in high-volume, middle-market excess and surplus insurance...
‘Mild’ Tropical Storm Ida Caused Millions in Alabama Beach Damage
Nov 30 2009 // Tropical Storm Ida was a mild storm along coastal Alabama, but it still caused millions in damage to the beaches. Gulf Shores and Orange Beach officials told the Press-Register that Ida stripped several hundred thousand...
Minor Quake Shakes North Alabama
Nov 18 2009 // Some north Alabama residents awoke to a shaky start of the new week. A small earthquake rattled the northern part of the state Monday morning. The 1.4 magnitude quake centered around the Fort Payne area. It hit around 4...
Ida Damages New $16M Fishing Pier on Alabama Coast
Nov 12 2009 // Alabama’s new state fishing pier, near Gulf Shores, which cost $16 million and is less than four months old, has been closed indefinitely because of damage from the first tropical storm to hit since it opened. The...
Tropical Storm Ida Pounds Gulf States with High Winds, Heavy Rains
Nov 10 2009 // A weakening Tropical Storm Ida lashed the U.S. Gulf Coast with drenching rain and high surf Tuesday as it moved ashore after shutting down almost 30 percent of Gulf of Mexico energy production. Ida, once a Category 2...
Alabama Attorney’s Suit Against Scruggs Assigned to Judge in Texas
Oct 28 2009 // A federal judge in Texas has been assigned to preside over an Alabama attorney’s lawsuit that alleges imprisoned attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and several others conspired to defraud him of millions...
