Mobile and Baldwin County News
The Greater Gulf State Fair returns to The Grounds in Mobile through Nov. 14 with rides, carnival food and a SunSouth Stage lineup built entirely around local and regional musicians.
The seventh annual Mobile Chocolate Festival drew crowds to the Abba Shrine Center, raising funds and awareness for domestic violence shelter Penelope House.
A 22-year Mobile police officer was dismissed after twice trying to load spilled tissue paper into her vehicles at a Paper Mill Road crash scene.
Mobile County schools are again selling discounted Greater Gulf State Fair tickets, aiming to top last year's $30,000 in fundraising proceeds.
The Grounds, Mobile's fairgrounds complex, gave $3,000 to the Crescent Theater and $300,000 total to area nonprofits over the past year.
Mobile fire officials say a blaze that sent a woman leaping from a balcony at Parklane Apartments was deliberately set, causing about $20,000 in damage.
May Fest returns to the Greater Gulf State Fairgrounds on Cody Road at Zeigler Boulevard for eight days of midway rides over two weekends — April 21–24 and April 28–May…