Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of public safety from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
PRICHARD, Ala. — The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office will stop providing “municipal-level” patrol and dispatch services in Prichard at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 4, Sheriff Paul Burch announced in…
A 21-year-old Bay Minette man is wanted on an attempted murder charge after a late-night shooting in the Pine Grove community left a man with several gunshot wounds. Deputies consider…
Mobile Fire-Rescue crews were called to the 2300 block of Dog River Drive around 2 p.m. Saturday and had the single-story house fire under control by 2:28 p.m. No one…
One person was hospitalized after a chain-reaction crash involving five vehicles at Old Shell and Cody roads in west Mobile. A separate wreck stalled traffic on McVay Drive.
Gov. Kay Ivey announced a $115,179 Project Safe Neighborhoods grant to Mobile County to create a Sheriff's Office task force targeting gang activity and gun violence in Prichard.
George County, Mississippi deputies charged Maria Lewis, 55, of Mobile with arson, property damage and animal cruelty after a fire and damage at a home she was being evicted from.
A suspicious object that closed Airway Drive near John R. Jones Athletic Park for more than two hours Thursday turned out to be a sealed geocaching container, the sheriff's office…
Lisa Marie Roddy, 42, of Chickasaw faces two doxing charges after investigators said she posted personal information about a Mobile County sheriff's deputy and another woman on social media.
Prichard Mayor Carletta Davis has proposed a FY 2026-27 budget with raises for public works employees, police, firefighters and the city clerk, plus a health plan cutting deductibles from $2,500…
The Baldwin County Forensics Foundation will host a fundraiser Aug. 22 at Waters Barn in Robertsdale to support forensic training, equipment and education for local agencies.