Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of felony charges from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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 break in one of Mobile’s oldest unsolved killings could lead to a second arrest, according to the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office. The development came as the case’s first…
A man who volunteered inside the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office has been booked into Metro Jail on charges of sexually abusing a child, according to investigators. Court documents charge Jimmy…
A Jackson County road department employee has been arrested on allegations that he sold state-owned equipment at multiple pawn shops across the county, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.…
More than a decade after the attack, Escambia County investigators have made an arrest in a 2009 sexual battery case. Aaron Bates, 37, has been booked into the Escambia County…
A Pensacola man has been arrested on charges that he sexually abused a young girl over a period of roughly three years, beginning when she was 11 years old, according…
A Pensacola man has been arrested on aggravated child abuse charges after a child reported being beaten with an extension cord, according to Escambia County authorities. The arrest followed an…
An inmate at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County faced a murder charge after authorities said he fatally stabbed another inmate inside the prison in June 2019. The Alabama Department…
Biloxi police have arrested a man accused of crawling under the partition of an occupied stall in a women’s restroom at a business along Beach Boulevard. Gregory Jermaine Burbridge Jr.…
A teacher in East Brewton has become the second person arrested and charged with felony computer tampering in an ongoing grade-changing scandal at W.S. Neal High School in Escambia County,…