Jefferson County, Alabama | August 25, 2026 Two people were killed early Sunday morning when the Honda Civic they were riding in was involved in a two-vehicle collision on southbound Interstate 65 at the Green Springs exit in Birmingham. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victims as a 24-year-old Birmingham man and a woman whose age and hometown...
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ArticlesWritten by Fob James IV, Esq. | Fob James Law Firm, LLC | Last Updated: September 4, 2026 Hair Relaxer Litigation — September 2026 Status No settlement exists. No global settlement has been announced and no plaintiff has been paid through the MDL 12,129 cases are pending in MDL 3060 as of the September 1, 2026 JPML report before...
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Alabama Accident NewsA 65-year-old Mountain Brook man was killed when a vehicle struck the bicycle he was riding on Crestwood Boulevard in Irondale on August 17, 2026.
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Alabama Accident NewsA 39-year-old Odenville woman was killed and two children were injured in a head-on crash on U.S. 411 in Moody on August 17, 2026.
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ArticlesAlabama is one of the most heavily forested states in the country, with timberland covering roughly two-thirds of the state, and that timber moves on trucks. Log trucks are a daily presence on rural highways from Clanton to Camden, and they combine nearly every risk factor in trucking: extreme weights, shifting cylindrical cargo, slow entries onto fast two-lane roads,...
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Autauga County, Alabama | August 15, 2026 A 58-year-old Elmore man was killed on the night of Wednesday, August 12, 2026, when the car he was driving was struck from behind by another vehicle on Interstate 65 in Autauga County, roughly 10 miles north of Prattville. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the other vehicle,...
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Alabama Accident NewsEscambia County, Alabama | August 14, 2026 A 72-year-old Flomaton man was killed on the afternoon of Thursday, August 6, 2026, when the farm tractor he was driving was struck from behind by a semi-truck on Alabama Highway 113 in Escambia County. He was towing a hay baler at the time. State troopers pronounced him dead at the scene....
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Alabama Accident NewsTuscaloosa County, Alabama | August 14, 2026 A 60-year-old Sawyerville man riding a cruiser motorcycle was killed on the evening of Wednesday, August 12, 2026, when an SUV struck his bike on Alabama Highway 69 in Tuscaloosa County. He was thrown from the motorcycle and pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the SUV and a 14-year-old passenger...
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Alabama Accident NewsJefferson County, Alabama | August 13, 2026 A 35-year-old Birmingham man riding a motorcycle was killed on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 11, 2026, when his bike and another vehicle collided at Crestwood Boulevard and Frederick Street on Birmingham’s east side. He was the only person on the motorcycle. Emergency crews transported him to UAB Hospital, where he was...
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ArticlesSomewhere in the stack of papers your family signed on admission day, there is probably an arbitration agreement, a clause designed to move any future abuse or neglect case out of an Alabama courtroom and away from an Alabama jury. Facilities count on families never reading it, and later, on believing that a signature ended their rights. Neither is...
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