HB56 Back in the Shop
While lawmakers try to repair the state’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration law and fend off challenges from federal court rulings, the controversy continues to...
BA—“It’s All Here”
Business Alabama, now in it’s 26th year of publication, introduces this month a new design for the cover, including a...
Two More for $691 Million
Mobile’s Austal USA got the go-ahead for construction of two more littoral combat ships, the third and fourth under its 10-ship contract...
FBI, UAB Students Snare Hackers
It’s a tale of intrigue that reads like a high-tech spy movie, the way NBC News tells it. Eastern European crooks tap...
Atlantans Buy Historic Mill
The historic Prattville mill buildings, which have had several owners since they formed the heart of Daniel Pratt’s cotton gin empire and...
Credit Unions Ride Hard on Banks
Alabama credit unions came off one of their best years ever in 2011, with sales and profitability up across the board. After...
Court to Hear Paramilitary Claims against Drummond
A Colombian court heard testimony in March from a demobilized member of the right-wing Colombian paramilitary group AUC, the United Self-Defence Forces...
Shelter Takedown
As if Mother Nature hadn’t been hard enough on Alabama this year, the attorney general now says that a company purporting to...
BP Settles, Soars, Sours
Lawyers for BP oil company and for victims of a massive spill reached a settlement in early March, setting aside $5.8 billion...
What Are the Odds?
The jury returned a verdict March 7 in Alabama’s gambling corruption trial, finding all defendants not guilty on all counts. Everyone walked free,...