Mobile and Baldwin County News
Tucked into a Fairhope retail strip is a fitness studio where nobody runs, nobody lifts a dumbbell and nobody breaks a sweat — and where a 70-year-old grandmother and a…
Recovery from orthopedic surgery used to mean a rotating cast of caregivers — one therapist Monday, an assistant Wednesday, a student Friday — with a stopwatch running the whole time.…
The word tennis tends to summon a specific image: two players, a net, long silent stretches between points. Cardio Tennis was designed to break that image apart. It is a…
Dr. Jeff Grear has a phrase for how he practices: Body Synergy. The idea is simple to say and demanding to do — every structure in the body has to…
On January 3, 2023, Amy Childress found her youngest son, Garrison, dead in his bedroom. He was 21. He had been an all-star athlete at Fairhope High School, a college…
Baldwin County opened its first cooling center of the year this week as a dangerous heat wave pushed heat indexes toward 112 degrees along the Gulf Coast, part of an…
MOBILE, Ala. — The Alabama Department of Environmental Management has issued an air quality alert for Mobile and Baldwin Counties for Friday, June 9, warning residents that ground-level ozone concentrations…
As warmer weather draws more motorcyclists onto Alabama roads, a Mobile trauma surgeon is reminding riders and drivers alike about the life-saving value of helmets. Dr. Linda Ding, a trauma…
The University of South Alabama has long carried most of the region's indigent care at a loss. With coverage expanding under the new federal law, that arithmetic may finally change.