Latest Alabama Headlines
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Seven Alabama Counties Due Flood Mapping Funds
Apr 7 2009 // Seven Alabama counties will benefit from some $5.8 million in federal money for flood map modernization. Officials say the grant will come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and be routed through the...
Ernst & Young to Pay $109 Million to Settle Alabama Fraud Suit
Mar 27 2009 // Ernst & Young LLP has agreed to pay $109 million to HealthSouth Corp. shareholders who sued the firm for failing to detect an accounting fraud involving more than a dozen executives. According to papers filed in...
Coastal Insurance Legislation Facing Test in Alabama
Mar 12 2009 // Coastal insurance bills face a test in the Alabama Legislature. The House and Senate Banking and Insurance committees met in joint session on Wednesday to take up legislation aimed at providing relief to homeowners along...
Alabama Seeks to Reduce Farm Traffic Collisions
Mar 6 2009 // D.C. Thornton knows that as well as anyone because he has been in the cab during one of those near collisions. “We’ve had instances where people had to slam on the brakes to keep from hitting us while we were...
Alabama House Votes to Add Restrictions to Young Drivers
Feb 26 2009 // The Alabama House has passed a bill that adds additional restrictions for some teenage drivers. The House voted 80-10 for the bill that requires some 16 and 17-year-old drivers to have a restricted license. The bill now...
Alabama House Votes to Ban Texting While Driving
Feb 24 2009 // The Alabama House has passed a bill that would prohibit motorists from sending or reading text messages on a cell phone while driving. The bill by Rep. Jim McClendon of Springville passed the House 92-4. It now goes to the...
Federal Jury Finds Former Alabama Insurance Exec Goff Guilty
Feb 20 2009 // A federal court jury in Montgomery has convicted Montgomery insurance executive John Goff. Jurors returned the verdict Tuesday morning in its second day of deliberations. Goff was found guilty of mail fraud, embezzlement...
Alabama Jury Deliberates Fate of Former Insurance Exec Goff
Feb 17 2009 // Prosecutors told a federal jury Friday that Montgomery insurance executive John Goff stole millions to finance a lavish lifestyle. Defense attorneys said Goff was indicted for what was simply a business dispute with two...
Alabama Justices Order Retrial in $3.9 Million Gas Leak Case
Feb 2 2009 // The Alabama Supreme Court has ordered a new trial in a case where a jury ordered Mobile Gas Service Corp. to pay $3.9 million to the family of an elderly woman who died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. The court...
State Farm Staying in Alabama
Jan 30 2009 // State Farm’s withdrawal from Florida’s property insurance market hasn’t changed its Alabama coastal coverage. State Farm spokesman David Majors said the company will resume offering wind coverage in small...
Alabama Judge Upholds Chemist’s $192 Million Award in Patent Theft Case
Jan 26 2009 // Global chemical giant Ineos Phenol, stung by a $192 million jury verdict, has denied stealing a hazardous waste recycling idea from a Mobile chemist and said it would appeal a judge’s order upholding the...
Flooding After Torrential Rains Remains Problem in West Alabama
Jan 14 2009 // Flood waters are still plaguing the west Alabama city of Demopolis following last week’s torrential rainfall. The Demopolis area and communities in neighboring Greene County have been inundated after the Black...
Alabama Arson Suspect Lunceford Faced Foreclosure, Federal Agents Say
Jan 13 2009 // Witnesses testified that businessman and former Auburn University’s punter Tommy Lunceford Jr. was in a dispute with a couple leasing his Gulf Shores (Alabama) restaurant and faced foreclosure when the building...
Alabama Small Businesses Providing Health Insurance Get Tax Break
Dec 18 2008 // A tax break that takes effect for many Alabama small businesses on Jan. 1 is being implemented by state tax officials to cover as many companies as possible. State Revenue Commissioner Tim Russell said his department is...
Alabama Highway Deaths Decline
Dec 17 2008 // Officials say highway deaths in Alabama have significantly dropped this year thanks to stricter law enforcement and higher fuel costs that reduced traffic. The number of fatalities dropped 18 percent this year with 600...
Tennessee Motel Sued for $100M in Death of Alabama Woman
Dec 8 2008 // The parents of a former north Alabama high school homecoming queen have filed a lawsuit seeking $100 million against the motel in Knoxville where she was killed, allegedly by a motel employee. Cynthia Senn and Michael...
Alabama Police Fear 2 Sought for Insurance Agency Fraud Have Fled
Dec 4 2008 // A Gulf Shores police investigator says two men sought for questioning in an alleged insurance fraud scheme on the Alabama Gulf coast may have fled to Turkey. Authorities want to question Benton Gray Harvey and Jonathan W....
Declarations
Nov 30 2008 // Taking Care “At the end of the day, we’re going to make sure everyone is taken care of.” —North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley upon touring Johnston and Wilson counties after a weekend tornado killed two...
New Alabama Commissioner Ridling Looking at Coastal Options
Nov 30 2008 // Alabama Gov. Bob Riley’s new insurance commissioner said the administration is considering its options to help coastal property owners struggling with high premiums and lost coverage in the wake of hurricanes,...
Alabama’s Baldwin County Backs Captive as Coastal Insurance Option
Nov 20 2008 // County commissioners in Alabama’s Baldwin County have voted to endorse the concept of “captive insurance” in the hopes of helping the struggling construction industry on Alabama’s Gulf...
