Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of courts from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
A Baldwin County judge denied an emergency petition seeking to force Sheriff Huey "Hoss" Mack to more strictly enforce the state's COVID-19 "safer at home" order, ruling the petitioner failed…
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The trial is set to begin Thursday for a Pensacola man accused of a violent crime spree that began with a carjacking at a gas station and…
PENSACOLA, Fla. — A jury has found a Pensacola man guilty of second-degree murder in the beating death of his grandfather, closing the trial phase of a case that began…
An effort to crack down on what Mobile officials call the “revolving door” of violent offenders returning to the streets while awaiting trial moved forward when an Alabama House committee…
Marco Perez pleaded not guilty to capital murder in the shooting death of Mobile Police Officer Sean Tuder, and his defense objected after Perez was brought into court wearing handcuffs…
Hours-Long Ordeals at Government Plaza Court appearances have turned into hours-long ordeals this week at Mobile Government Plaza, where two of the four elevators serving the courts were out of…
Sixteen people are in the running to fill a Mobile County District Court judgeship left vacant when Judge Jay York was elevated to the circuit bench. York was appointed last…
A state appeals court upheld a Mobile County judge's decision to overturn a former trooper's capital murder conviction, citing evidence withheld from the defense.
Ahead of the November 2014 election, incumbent Michelle Thomason and independent challenger Ginger Poynter competed for Baldwin County's Place 1 District Court judgeship, a six-year seat.
A Mobile judge set $200,000 bail for an 18-year-old charged in the shooting death of a former Williamson High School linebacker and new father, killed on a dead-end street in…