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The widow of an Alabama airman killed on a combat mission in the Middle East said it took a viral social media post to get resolution from the Pentagon on issues related to her husband's benefits and basic pay months after his death.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced plans this week to officially open five parcels in Alabama’s Conecuh National Forest for oil and gas leases. The move prompted an immediate response from the Center for Biological Diversity.

One of Alabama's largest publicly held companies, the Birmingham-based Energen Corp., is being bought out by Texas-based Diamondback Energy Inc. in a…

Environmental regulators promised an aggressive cleanup after a tanker train hauling 2.9 million gallons of crude oil derailed and burned in a West…