Mobile and Baldwin County News
Mobile County's $40 million 911 radio system faces further delays after officials discovered microwave dishes on the network's towers can't withstand hurricane-force winds, compounding an ongoing land-access dispute in Theodore.
Authorities ruled a fatal house fire in Foley's Monteith Oaks neighborhood a homicide, the city's first in five years, as investigators worked to confirm the victim's identity.
Baldwin County school leaders pushed an 8-mill property tax increase to raise $28.6 million a year for a $350 million construction plan, set for a March referendum.
A late-night fire on Monteith Circle in Foley killed a 70-year-old resident, prompting a joint investigation into the blaze's cause and origin.
Sources said Commissioner Stephen Nodine could face ethics charges within days, even as Baldwin County detectives searched for a missing bullet in the shooting death of Angel Downs.