WETUMPKA -- The criminal case against a Montgomery man charged in a fatal accident on Lake Martin has been bound over to a grand jury. Patrick Leigh Cumbie faces boat­ing under the influence and homicide by vessel charges. Cumbie was allegedly under the influence of alcohol when the boat he was piloting ran into a pontoon boat Aug. 9 near Ko­waliga Marina. Donald Tatum, 62, of Prattville died as a result of the collision. Sue Tatum, his sister-in-law, was critically in­jured. Cumbie also is facing a civil lawsuit, which was filed in Montgomery County three days after the accident. Jere Beasley represents the Tatums in that lawsuit.

The state government has agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle lawsuits by 48 girls who said they were abused at a youth detention center near Birmingham.

The state government has agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle lawsuits by 48 girls who say they were abused at a youth detention center near Birmingham.

The drivers of a school bus and a car involved in a deadly wrack on the interstate overpass in Huntsville have been names defendants in the first wrongful death lawsuit filed in the accident, which killed four teens.

The drivers of a school bus car involved a deadly wreck on a interstate overpass in Huntsville have been names defendants in the first wrongful death lawsuit filed in the accident, which killed four teens.

The family of Nicole Ford, one of the four girls killed in a tragic school bus accident filed a wrongful death suit in Madison County Circuit Court, lawyers representing the family announced Monday.

The family of a Lee High School student killed in November's bus crash has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, citing the lack of seat belts on the bus.

John Perdue says he was merely expressing faith, leaving a message about Jesus on another businessman’s voice mail but his company apparently felt he went too far and fired him for doing it.

A black lawyer and a team of other attorneys recently won a $114.5 million verdict in a case of a white man who was severely burned on the job.