Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of grand jury from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Jury trials return to Mobile County next week after a summer hiatus, with jury selection beginning Monday in the murder trial of a Wilmer man charged in a fatal 2022…
Orange Beach paid a fired former Alabama Attorney General's Office investigator $5,875 to review the police response to a 2024 domestic violence 911 call involving Mayor Tony Kennon.
Prichard Mayor Carletta Davis has called a town hall for Aug. 4 to let residents weigh in on the future of the city's police department amid an ongoing corruption investigation…
Prichard Police Capt. Michael Knight was arrested and charged with theft and misuse of office, becoming at least the seventh officer charged as a corruption investigation into the department's pay…
Prichard City Council members say Alabama law may require Mayor Carletta Davis' involvement to act on a grand jury's call to remove the police chief and rebuild the department, but…
A Mobile County judge bound over the case against James and Elishia Langie to a grand jury after a preliminary hearing detailed the June shooting death of Jamail Mitchell on…
Prichard Police Chief Walter Knight has resigned at Mayor Carletta Davis' request, days after a grand jury indicted him and recommended the city's police department be rebuilt.
A Mobile County special grand jury indicted Prichard Police Chief Walter Knight and Maj. Aaron Tucker on ethics and theft charges. DA Keith Blackwood called the findings a "cultural rot,"…
A Clarke County judge found probable cause to send the murder case against Hector Hugo Duran Gutierrez, charged in the fatal shooting of Henry Howard at a Thomasville restaurant, to…
A judge has ruled there's enough evidence to send a murder charge against an Eight Mile man to a grand jury in a fatal Highland Avenue shooting in Mobile's Happy…