Coastal Alabama Salvation Army Passes $30,000 as Red Kettle Drive Gains Momentum
The Salvation Army of Coastal Alabama has collected about $30,000 so far this Red Kettle season, with a goal of topping $200,000 by year's end.
Mobile and Baldwin County News
The Salvation Army of Coastal Alabama has collected about $30,000 so far this Red Kettle season, with a goal of topping $200,000 by year's end.
A Mobile Police-heavy tailgate crew, the Low Friends Tailgate Association, won a season-long South Alabama Jaguars contest at Ladd-Peebles Stadium.
Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson dropped the first donation into the Salvation Army's Red Kettle at the city's Christmas tree lighting to kick off the holiday campaign.
A Thanksgiving evening shooting near Perch Creek in Mobile left a 23-year-old man dead and a second man wounded, according to Mobile police investigators.
The Salvation Army of Coastal Alabama's Angel Tree program aims to help more than 2,000 children in the Mobile area this holiday season.
About 200 volunteers are preparing turkey and ham for a fifth annual free Thanksgiving meal served at six churches across Mobile, Fairhope and Theodore.
Mobile's Camellia Ball kicked off the 2015 Mardi Gras season with a Monet-inspired garden theme, welcoming 30 young women in their formal debut.
Baldwin County commissioners moved forward with merit-based raises averaging about 8 percent for nine department directors, led by the interim administrator.
Mobile investigators probed a Saturday house fire and two vehicle fires at a Schillinger Road dealership, both believed to have been intentionally set.
A week after Larry Glenn was found fatally shot in a Prichard apartment complex parking lot, police named a man they are seeking to question about his death.