More asbestos cases have been filed in Madison County than anywhere else in the country.

ECONOMIST: Tort reform

One afternoon in September, I went to the Madison County Courthouse, in downtown Huntsville, to watch Bishop plead guilty.

NEWYORKER: A Loaded Gun

While entire states like West Virginia and Louisiana inspired fear and loathing among the Gucciloafer set, the bad grades for California and Illinois seemed driven more by concern about generous big-city juries, and in the Land of Lincoln, the downstate litigation mecca of Madison County.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Besides the revival and film of "The Last Five Years, " he's got two new musicals debuting this year: "Honeymoon in Vegas, " an adaptation of the 1992 film written with Andrew Bergman that will premiere at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, and "The Bridges of Madison County, " a musical he wrote with Marsha Norman that debuts at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts this summer.

WSJ: Songwriter Jason Robert Brown revisits tough times

The heat has already claimed at least one victim, a 51-year-old man in Granite City, Illinois, who died Sunday because of the excessive heat, according to the Madison County coroner.

CNN: Heat advisories issued to states dwindles to 15