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Court-ordered mediation between Prichard Mayor Carletta Davis and city council members ended without agreement, sending the dispute over spending and city authority back to a Mobile County judge.
A second legal challenge to Prichard’s municipal elections has been filed in Mobile County Circuit Court, seeking to stop the city from holding its September 23 runoff elections. Lorenzo Martin,…
A Mobile man accused in a deadly 2024 rolling gun battle on Interstate 165 will stand trial Oct. 5 after being found mentally competent, prosecutors say.
A Mobile County jury is deliberating in the retrial of Jordan Miller, a Prichard man accused of fatally shooting 24-year-old Phillip Glover on Lefevre Street in April 2023, after his…
Attorneys for two former Bayou La Batre Housing Authority officials are asking a judge to move their civil trial out of Mobile County, arguing pretrial media coverage of the $4.18…
A Mobile County murder case against Haratio Stewart was dismissed this week at prosecutors' request, and a judge will now decide whether double jeopardy bars the charge from being reinstated.
Ryan Timothy Smith, who fled to Arkansas after a 2020 shooting in Mobile, pleaded guilty to murder Monday and was sentenced to 20 years as part of a plea deal.
A Mobile judge has ruled there's enough evidence to send a murder case to a grand jury against John Howell, accused in the April shooting death of 51-year-old Jacob Griffith…
A jury found Wilmer resident Aubrey Aaron Pate guilty this week in the 2022 death of postal worker and running enthusiast Victor Birch on Rangeline Road in Mobile.
A preliminary hearing detailed the events leading to the fatal shooting of pregnant 23-year-old Chyna Hickman, with a judge finding probable cause to send the capital murder case against Kanedrea…