Joe Cain Classic Marks 29th Year With 5K, Moon Pie Dash in Downtown Mobile
Mardi Gras season’s favorite road race returns to downtown Mobile on Sunday, March 3, 2019, when the 29th annual Joe Cain Classic steps off at 8 a.m. Presented by Bay…
Stolen guns from unlocked cars remain a persistent Gulf Coast problem
A Valentine’s Day vigil for a teen killed by a stolen gun renewed attention on a stubborn problem across the Gulf Coast: firearms taken from vehicles that were left unlocked.…
Mobile County Flu Count Climbs Past 1,000 Cases, Though Numbers Still Beat Last Year
Mobile County has logged 1,074 confirmed flu cases so far this season, according to the Mobile County Health Department’s Infectious Diseases & Outbreaks division — a figure drawn from rapid…
Cancer Survivor Brings Port-Friendly ‘ComfyCozy’z’ Shirts to Young Chemo Patients in Mobile
Chemotherapy is hard on anyone, but for children it can be especially daunting. On Monday, young patients at USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Mobile got a small comfort from…
Decades Later, Woman Found in Grand Bay Creek in 1976 Still Unidentified, Detective Says
GRAND BAY, Ala. — More than four decades after a woman’s body was found in a creek south of Grand Bay, investigators still do not know who she was, and…
Commuters Brace for Wallace Tunnel and Bayway Tolls: ‘It Would Completely Ruin’ My Budget
Plans to toll two of the Gulf Coast’s busiest commuter crossings are drawing sharp pushback from the families and small businesses that cross Mobile Bay every day. The Mobile River…
Conde Cavaliers Bring the Parade to Students Who Can’t Make It to Mardi Gras
Hours before their Friday night parade rolled through downtown Mobile, the Conde Cavaliers staged a much smaller procession — through the halls of Augusta Evans School, parading for students who…
Conde Cavaliers Open Mobile’s Mardi Gras Parade Season With Route A Run
Mardi Gras 2019 officially got rolling in Mobile on Friday night, as the Conde Cavaliers paraded through downtown as the first mystic society of the season to take the streets,…
43 Years Later, Grand Bay Murder Victim Still Unidentified, Case Unsolved
More than four decades after her body was pulled from a creek south of Grand Bay, a murder victim remains unidentified and her killer has never been caught. The case,…
Amazon Scraps New York HQ Plans, Mobile Mayor Invites Company South
Amazon has dropped its plans for a major new headquarters in New York City, and Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson quickly used the announcement to pitch his city as an alternative…