Birmingham News blogger Don Kausler Jr. shares his harrowing experience as an 18-wheeler collides with traffic stopped on Interstate 20 from a previous accident. According to his story, while stopped near mile marker 147 waiting for traffic from another wreck ahead to be cleared, "A big rig loaded with two trailers came squeezing between an 18-wheeler and the concrete median barrier. It sideswiped the Dodge Ram pickup truck to my left, knocking it into my truck. And then the big rig slammed violently into the 18-wheeler that was turned sideways."

BAY MINETTE, Ala. - Hollis Thorn served in the Navy during the 1940's, then became a baptist minister. After his retirement, Thorn was stricken with diabetes.

A lawsuit has been filed against the firm that manages the Alabama's three veterans homes, charging negligence led to the death in 2007 of a resident in the William F. Green Veterans Home in Bay Minette.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The list of recalled peanut products linked to a national salmonella outbreak just keeps growing.

COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - As Auburn University student Taylor Jones returned home to Montgomery after being released from the hospital this weekend, the Lee County District Attorney and the Auburn Police Department issued a warrant Monday morning for the fraternity member accused of assaulting him.

A lawsuit has been filed in the Circuit Court for Lee County, Alabama, on behalf of an Auburn University student who was injured at a campus fraternity house on Jan. 11.

AUBURN, AL (WSFA) - It's been two weeks since a fight at an Auburn University fraternity house left one freshman with severe injuries. Now the fight has moved to the courtroom. Taylor G. Jones was critically injured and rushed to a Georgia hospital after someone beat him at the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity house on January 11.Now, the Montgomery-based law firm of Beasley Allen has stepped into the fray filing a complaint on Jones' behalf against Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, the Auburn chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the Alabama Alpha chapter and a fraternity member named Zachary James Quillen.

Families of four Lee High School students who were killed when their bus plunged off an interstate overpass two years ago have settled lawsuits in the case that led to national debate over school bus safety, lawyers said Wednesday.

Lawsuits filed by the families of four Lee High School students killed in a 2006 school bus crash were settled by the bus company, Laidlaw Transit Inc., early Wednesday, said three attorneys who helped mediate the cases.

Several lawsuits have been settled over a Huntsville school bus crash that killed four high school students and left dozens injured two years ago.