Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of July 2026 from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Mobile developer Murray Farmer has been barred from leaving Honduras since March as he fights a criminal case he calls political retaliation while seeking a $106 million judgment.
Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker has pleaded guilty to federal charges after prosecutors say he made threatening calls and texts to rabbis and other religious leaders; he faces sentencing in November.
Charlie Clifford Davis was arrested on meth trafficking and evidence tampering charges after a slow-speed chase through a Cantonment, Florida Walmart parking lot that ended with drugs scattered near his…
Corey Dion Wallace, whose Moffett Road car lot was burglarized in 2022, has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for running a scheme that trafficked stolen vehicles…
Mobile police issued 53 citations, 18 warnings and made two arrests during a July 24 traffic safety operation targeting speeding, uninsured drivers and other dangerous behaviors.
State Rep. Napoleon Bracy is defending indicted Prichard Police Chief Walter Knight, calling the investigation a witch hunt, while Mobile County DA Keith Blackwood stands by the prosecution.
UMS-Wright and St. Paul's football programs are heading into their rivalry season shaped by grief after losing players and alumni in a hunting camp fire and boating accidents this July.
Gulf Shores approved a new Saturday Mardi Gras parade run by the Pleasure Island Revelers, but Mayor Robert Craft says the traditional Fat Tuesday parade could stick around too.
A Grand Bay couple's veteran-focused nonprofit, Vets to Cowboys, drew more than 100 veterans to an open house teaching the basics of cattle ranching as a post-military career path.
Kenneth Jordan's family learned only last week that his remains were found in Prichard shortly after he was reported missing in 2024 — nearly two years ago — and they…