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AI Helps Track Hurricane Threatening Alabama
MOBILE, Ala. — Artificial intelligence is helping hurricane forecasters anticipate the strength and path of Hurricane Isaias as the storm approaches Alabama and the northern Gulf Coast, providing guidance that has influenced official predictions since before the system had a name. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center have leaned heavily on a model developed by…
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Shipt Names New CEO as Birmingham Roots Frame Its Next Chapter
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Shipt has named former executive Raj Kapoor as its next CEO, putting a familiar leader in charge of the delivery company that grew from a Birmingham startup into a $550 million Target acquisition and a prominent name on the city’s skyline. Kapoor will take over Oct. 18, succeeding Kamau Witherspoon, the company…
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FBI Summer Sweep Nets 228 Alabama Arrests
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A three-month FBI operation resulted in 228 arrests across central and north Alabama, authorities announced Tuesday, as local law enforcement leaders credited interagency cooperation and community involvement with helping reduce violent crime. The FBI Birmingham Field Office reported 32 federal indictments and 20 federal convictions during Operation Summer Heat, a nationwide initiative…
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Alabama Power Breach Affects 100,000 Accounts as Cyber Threats Mount
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — About 100,000 Alabama Power customer accounts were affected by unauthorized access to its parent company’s online customer portal, an incident disclosed Monday as national data show thousands of information compromises each year and security officials warn artificial intelligence could accelerate cyberattacks. Southern Company said an unauthorized third party accessed limited information associated…
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Gulf Coast Radar Outage Disrupts Public Weather Data in South Alabama
MOBILE, Ala. — A communications outage that has disrupted public weather-radar data across the Gulf Coast remained unresolved Sunday, leaving south Alabama residents without reliable access to radar imagery as heavy rain and flash-flooding concerns continued. The National Weather Service Mobile/Pensacola office said radar data from the Mobile site, known as KMOB, and the Eglin…
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Alabama Lawsuit Targets Abortion Pill Access
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined Louisiana and Arkansas in a new effort to stop health care providers in California, Massachusetts and New York from prescribing and mailing abortion medication to patients in states where abortion is banned, escalating a post-Roe conflict over whether one state’s prohibition can extend across another…
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