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CITRONELLE, Ala. — A Citronelle family is asking for the public’s help finding an electric wheelchair belonging to an 85-year-old Air Force veteran. Thomas Powell uses the wheelchair to get…
MOBILE, Ala. — A Citronelle man has rewritten the Alabama record books, landing a 132-pound, 12.8-ounce greater amberjack in the Gulf of Mexico and breaking a mark that had stood…
Both drivers died in a head-on collision between a log truck and a small sedan on U.S. Highway 45 in Citronelle, authorities said, in a wreck that shut down the…
CITRONELLE, Ala. — Citronelle police say they arrested a garbage truck operator after a search of his vehicle turned up methamphetamine, adding a drug charge to what began as a…
CITRONELLE — A mobile home in Citronelle was destroyed by fire early Thursday morning, though no one was injured in the blaze, according to Citronelle Fire & Rescue. Crews were…
CITRONELLE, Ala. — A Citronelle home was destroyed in an overnight fire on Woodland Drive, though everyone made it out safely before the blaze consumed the structure. The pre-dawn fire…
Citronelle police arrested a combative man — believed to be under the influence of drugs — outside a McDonald’s Tuesday morning after officers used a Taser to take him into…
A Citronelle man accused of killing his sister-in-law and setting her home on fire last month will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device if he is released on…
A 10-year-old Citronelle student got a homecoming he will not soon forget. Sid Hobbs, a fourth-grader at McDavid Jones Elementary School, was greeted by hundreds of residents after returning home…
A hunting party working the Alabama River south of Jackson brought in one of the larger alligators taken during Alabama’s regulated season, a 12-foot animal weighing 537 pounds. Tyler Dees…