Salute to Our Military: Remembering Sergeant First Class Howard Ard
This week's Salute to Our Military honors Sergeant First Class Howard Ard of Jay, who served in the U.S. Army and lost his life in Vietnam.
Air Force Dad Wears the Mascot Suit to Surprise His Sons at Mobile’s Dawes Intermediate
Two students at Dawes Intermediate School in Mobile thought they were being pulled into an ordinary hula hoop contest against the school mascot Monday afternoon. Inside the costume was their…
Fort Walton Beach and Lucedale named ‘Most Courageous Cities’ by Insurify
Two Gulf Coast communities have been recognized for a quality their residents rarely think of as remarkable: the sheer number of people who run toward danger for a living. The…
Crowds Line Downtown Mobile Streets for Veterans Day Parade
Veterans Day and what it marks Veterans Day traces its origin to Nov. 11, 1918 — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, when the armistice…
Memorial Day Ceremony at Mobile National Cemetery to Honor the Fallen
The South Alabama Veterans' Council held its annual Memorial Day ceremony at the National Cemetery on Virginia Street in Mobile, with a World War II Marine featured in two acclaimed…
Mobile Ad Executive and Navy Reservist Was Bound for Baghdad’s Green Zone
Scott Rye, a political consultant and advertising executive, was called up as a Navy Reserve commander to run media operations for Multi-National Force-Iraq, expecting to spend a year in Baghdad.