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MOBILE, Ala. — Keith Blackwood, the chief assistant district attorney for Mobile County, has announced his candidacy for Mobile County District Attorney in the 2022 election, entering a race that…
Mobile Police opened the city's 50th homicide investigation of 2021 on Dec. 14, setting an all-time record and surpassing the previous high of 49 killings in 2017, as officials point…
Starting in July 2021, Alabamians carrying certain old criminal convictions can ask the courts to wipe the slate clean under the state’s new Redeemer Act — a law that advocates…
BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — The wife of Bayou La Batre’s mayor was stabbed inside her office at Bayou La Batre City Hall on Tuesday morning, according to Mayor Henry…
A Mobile County man who was free on bond after being accused of abducting his own children is back behind bars, accused of violating the conditions of his release. James…
Attorneys for Marco Perez argued in a Mobile County pretrial hearing that he should be immune from prosecution in the 2019 killing of Officer Sean Tuder, saying Perez never realized…
The Alabama Supreme Court reversed a Mobile County judge's order that had lowered a bond requirement for a family-owned towing company to reclaim seized trucks, even as several justices raised…
A Mobile man charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of his 2-year-old daughter will remain jailed after a judge denied bond, according to the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office.…
MOBILE, Ala. — Capital murder cases in Mobile County would not go to trial for at least six months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, District Attorney Ashley Rich said in…
One of two men arrested in connection with a decades-old Mobile murder is walking free, while the case against the other moves forward — a split outcome that shows how…