Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of parents from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
With school out for the summer, experts in Mobile are warning that adolescent drug use can rise when teenagers have more unsupervised free time, and the region’s prevention organizations are…
MOBILE, Ala. — The Mobile County Public School System is weighing two proposed calendars for the 2019-2020 school year, and district leaders want to hear from the people the schedule…
MOBILE, Ala. — With thousands of registered sex offenders living across Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, law enforcement agencies are reminding parents to take precautions as Halloween approaches. The reminder arrives…
A Valley, Alabama, mother is facing a child endangerment charge after police say she left her 8-month-old baby inside a locked car in a store parking lot. Casey Hornsby, 25,…
A Bayou La Batre nonprofit director who fled Vietnam by boat as a child says he recognizes his own story in today's Mediterranean migrant tragedies.
A Mobile County kindergartner was asked to sign a safety contract after a classroom drawing, prompting the district to review its policy.
Baldwin County school officials are phoning hundreds of parents to gauge support for new buildings and a possible property tax increase amid growth.
Saraland Elementary opened the school year with new safety measures, including radios for staff and stricter visitor check-in rules.
Baldwin County school board members considered easing the district's uniform policy for high schoolers, allowing jeans and open-toed shoes, with a vote set for late July.
Mobile police began enforcing the nighttime portion of the city's new juvenile curfew, targeting teens 17 and younger, as officials rolled out an assessment center and a broad public awareness…