The Salvation Army of Coastal Alabama’s Angel Tree program aims to help more than 2,000 children in the Mobile area this holiday season.
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Baldwin County
A Bed for the Night: How Mobile and Baldwin Counties Sheltered Their Homeless
A 2013 count found 493 people homeless on any given night in Mobile and Baldwin counties. This is a look at the network of shelters and day centers that stood ready to take them in.
Mobile
Severe Storm Threat Prompts Emergency Shelter to Open in Mobile
A strong squall line prompted a severe weather warning for the Mobile area, and the Salvation Army opened an emergency overnight shelter downtown.
Mobile
Mobile Community Rallies to Support Homeless Father and Young Son
A Mobile family’s chance encounter with hardship turned into a wave of local generosity, with housing, jobs and school help pouring in.
Prichard
Search for a Missing 8-Year-Old Prichard Girl Paused Overnight, Set to Resume at Dawn
The search for 8-year-old Hiawayi Robinson, missing from a Prichard apartment complex since Tuesday, was suspended for the evening in September 2014 and set to resume Thursday morning.
Mobile
Pancakes, a Chorus and $858 for a Prichard Classroom
Sunrise Rotary gathered for its family pancake breakfast with the St. Paul’s Chorus — and sent $858 to a third-grade teacher at W.D. Robbins Elementary in Prichard for a project called Backpacking with Reading.
Baldwin County
Regional Planner Chris Miller Took Sunrise Rotary’s Podium as Coastal Growth Pressed In
The assistant executive director of the South Alabama Regional Planning Commission — and a former Bay Minette city administrator — headlined the Rotary Club of Mobile-Sunrise as the club opened a busy December.