Latest Alabama Headlines
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Alabama Weather Alerts
Mar 19 2012 // Alabama residents can sign up for a free system that will send severe weather alerts through email, phone calls and text messaging. The system was introduced Gov. Robert Bentley and other leaders. It was developed by Baron...
Declarations
Mar 19 2012 // Watched It Coming “We stood in the parking lot and watched it coming. By the time it hit, it was like a whiteout.” —David Ison on the March tornadoes that left no building untouched in his small town of West...
Insurance Study Rates Georgia Building Codes Among Weakest
Mar 19 2012 // The insurance industry says that Alabama’s building standards and enforcement practices are among the weakest of all the hurricane-prone areas in the country. The state ranked 15th among 18 states near the Gulf of...
Pilot Project in Kansas, Missouri, Seeks Better Storm Warnings
Mar 15 2012 // When weather radios start sounding warnings in the Wichita, Kan., area this spring, the computerized voice nicknamed Chance Storms won’t just alert listeners to severe thunderstorms or tornado warnings. He’ll...
Palomar Buys Martin Grace Benefit Group in Alabama
Mar 13 2012 // Palomar Insurance Corp, a Montgomery, Alabama-headquartered insurance brokerage, said it has acquired Martin Grace Benefit Group Inc. in Birmingham. Martin Grace is an employee benefit and insurance consulting firm. Tony...
Small Towns in Southeast Hit Hard by Tornadoes
Mar 5 2012 // Residents of towns throughout the Southeast are recovering from the shock of last Friday’s severe storms and tornadoes. Along with pubic and insurance officials, they are beginning to assess the damage from the...
2011 an Exceptional Year for Tornadoes
Mar 5 2012 // While 2011 marked the fourth deadliest year on record for tornadoes in the United States, Texas was spared tornado-related fatalities and recorded fewer-than-average number of such storms. Not so in Alabama, which led all...
Quake Simulator Coming to University of Alabama
Mar 5 2012 // There aren’t very many rooms in the world that can successfully reproduce the devastating effects of an earthquake. But come May 1, a laboratory on the University of Alabama campus may be able to do just that. Work...
Alabama Seeks to License Public Adjusters
Mar 1 2012 // Alabama regulators and public adjuster groups are lobbying state lawmakers to pass a bill that would allow the state for the first time to license and monitor the actions of public adjusters. Insurer groups, however, are...
Alabama Judge Acquits Man in Australia Honeymoon Death
Feb 27 2012 // A judge on Thursday acquitted a man accused of drowning his newlywed wife during a honeymoon diving trip to Australia eight years ago, saying in an unusual ruling that prosecutors did not prove the man intentionally killed...
Complex Trial Over Blame for Gulf Oil Spill Set to Open
Feb 24 2012 // It could be the ultimate case for passing the buck. A massive trial over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill heads for a New Orleans federal courtroom on Monday, to determine how much BP Plc and others should cough up for...
2011 an Exceptional Year for Tornadoes
Feb 23 2012 // While 2011 marked the fourth deadliest year on record for tornadoes in the United States, Texas was spared tornado-related fatalities and recorded fewer-than-average number of such storms. Not so Alabama, which led all...
Driver Texting Ban Passes Alabama House, Moves to Senate
Feb 23 2012 // The Alabama House has voted to ban drivers from sending or reading text messages while operating a motor vehicle on Alabama roads. The bill passed the House on a 92-0 vote. It now goes to the Senate for debate. The traffic...
Earthquake Simulator to Be Built at University of Alabama
Feb 21 2012 // There aren’t very many rooms in the world that can successfully reproduce the devastating effects of an earthquake. But come May 1, a laboratory on the University of Alabama campus may be able to do just that. Work...
Insurance Called Motive in Alabama Trial Over Bride Drowning in Australia
Feb 16 2012 // An Alabama man drowned his new bride during a dive on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in hopes of collecting $210,000 in insurance benefits and belongings that included her diamond engagement ring, a prosecutor told...
Alabama Governor Wants 1 Year Tax Holiday for Storm Supplies
Feb 16 2012 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has proposed a once-a-year sales tax holiday on weather radios, flashlights, generators and other supplies needed to help prepare for weather disasters. Bentley made the proposal at a news...
Alabama Insurance Agent Enjoys New Acting Career
Feb 10 2012 // Stan Houston has felt the power of Kenny Powers. Houston, an Enterprise insurance agent based in Dothan, Ala., filmed a scene in July for an upcoming episode of the HBO comedy series “Eastbound and Down.” The...
Alabama Panel Passes Texting While Driving Bill
Feb 10 2012 // An Alabama House committee has approved a bill that would ban sending or reading text messages while driving. The bill by Republican Rep. Jim McClendon of Springville passed the House Public Safety and Homeland Security...
Alabama Sports Trademark Infringement Claim Set for Court
Feb 6 2012 // A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in the trademark infringement case between sports artist Daniel Moore and the University of Alabama, whose football program is portrayed in a number of his works. They...
Weather Service Documents 10 Tornadoes in Alabama
Jan 27 2012 // The National Weather Service has now documented paths of destruction from at least 10 tornadoes in the outbreak of storms across central Alabama early Monday. Recently completed surveys show that tornadoes struck in Perry...
