Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of local news from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
CITRONELLE, Ala. — A Citronelle pastor charged with rape, sodomy and sexual abuse had his bond set at a hearing Monday, according to Mobile police. The bond hearing marks an…
Voters planning to cast absentee ballots in Mobile’s August 24 municipal election can start soon: the city’s Absentee Election Office opens its doors Friday, July 30, 2021. The office is…
MOBILE, Ala. — More than 200 young volunteers fanned out across Africatown this week, scraping, painting and re-roofing homes for homeowners who could not afford the work themselves. The effort…
CITRONELLE, Ala. — A 5-year-old Citronelle boy who told his kindergarten teacher he wanted to grow up to be a police officer got the chance to live the dream early,…
MOBILE, Ala. — A longtime City of Mobile employee has jumped into the race for Mobile City Council District 1. Chamyne Fortune Thompson, a facility supervisor with the city’s Parks…
EAST BREWTON, Ala. — A man sat on a blue couch on Andrew Jackson Street, where four walls that once surrounded it are now gone. East Brewton still looked like…
LUCEDALE, Miss. — The city of Lucedale says it is still working to clear debris more than seven months after Hurricane Zeta ravaged parts of the Gulf Coast. Lucedale was…
Simone Biles has rewritten the record books in gymnastics, and the skills she pioneered have proven so demanding that only a handful of athletes anywhere in the world have ever…
MOBILE, Ala. — More than 3,000 Alabama Power customers in midtown Mobile were without electricity Tuesday morning, according to the utility’s online outage map, which estimated that repairs would wrap…
CITRONELLE, Ala. — Citronelle Fire Rescue crews responded around 1:30 a.m. Saturday to a fire at a building next to a home on Bud Odom Road, and everyone made it…