Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Independence Day from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Forty-five Orange Beach mailboxes were nominated in the city's first Great American Mailbox Challenge, a patriotic beautification contest tied to the nation's 250th birthday. All three winners came from East…
The winning duck in East Brewton's annual Fourth of July duck race was plucked from Murder Creek on Saturday afternoon, capping two days of Independence Day celebrations across the Escambia…
Thomasville native and Clarke Prep graduate Maj. Andrea Bagley Bynum piloted an Apache helicopter in the military flyover of the National Mall marking the nation's 250th birthday, watched from below…
Residents lined the streets and parks of downtown Jackson on July 2 for the city's annual Independence Day fireworks display, this year marking the 250th anniversary of American independence.
Hundreds turned out at American Legion Post 112 in Thomasville for a barbecue tradition dating to 1947, where volunteers cooked 1,800 pounds of Boston butts to raise money for the…
Alabama's Marine Resources Division will open state and federal waters to red snapper harvest for private and charter anglers on July 4th, with a two-fish daily limit and a 16-inch…
MOBILE, Ala. — As many across the Gulf Coast marked Independence Day with cookouts and fireworks, a group of Mobile residents used the holiday to protest the Supreme Court’s recent…
SEMMES, Ala. — Semmes is getting a head start on the nation’s birthday, and it is bringing an American Idol along. Taylor Hicks, who won the show’s fifth season in…
Just ahead of Independence Day, a new analysis ranked Alabama 34th among the 50 states for patriotism — and none of the Gulf Coast states fared especially well. The personal…
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Dauphin Island will skip its traditional Independence Day fireworks this year, a casualty of the coronavirus pandemic that will leave the island’s skies dark on the…