Mobile and Baldwin County News
The Alabama Supreme Court has set a Nov. 17 execution date for Kenneth Eugene Smith, whose death sentence stemmed from a judicial override after jurors recommended life in prison for…
Mobile County's sheriff released the names of deputies involved in a fatal May shooting within a day, while Bay Minette officials have withheld the identity of the officer who fatally…
The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld felony escape charges against inmates who fail to return from work-release programs, setting a significant legal precedent for how the state handles such cases.…
A push is underway in Alabama to dramatically raise the top bond a judge can set for a murder suspect, and prosecutors on the Gulf Coast are backing the effort.…
A new Alabama Supreme Court ruling allows police body camera footage to be withheld as "investigative materials," a decision rooted in a Baldwin County deputy's 2017 shooting of an unarmed…
Clarke County Sheriff William Ray Norris has resigned, days before he was scheduled to answer impeachment charges before the Alabama Supreme Court. Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Wednesday that Norris…
The Alabama Supreme Court reversed a Mobile County judge's order that had lowered a bond requirement for a family-owned towing company to reclaim seized trucks, even as several justices raised…
Gov. Kay Ivey has ordered the Alabama Department of Corrections to develop a plan for moving thousands of state inmates out of county jails, where they have been held for…
A backlog of thousands of state inmates left in Alabama county jails during the COVID-19 pandemic has strained Mobile County Metro Jail, prompting Gov. Kay Ivey to order a state…
Newly assigned Baldwin County Circuit Judge Clark Stankoski asked attorneys to flag any conflicts of interest as he took over a nearly six-year-old fraud lawsuit over a 242-acre Magnolia Springs…