Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of University of South Alabama from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
A poster designed by University of South Alabama assistant professor Daniel Wildberger has been chosen as the official artwork for the 2010 Gulf Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival, set…
Mobile author Jeannie Holmes released her debut novel, “Blood Law,” on July 6, blending two of her longtime interests — vampires and law enforcement — into a crime story set…
Jurors in the trial of Jamie Letson heard how a timeline error once pointed detectives toward a University of South Alabama campus officer, and how a 2008 interview changed the…
Thirty years after Katherine Foster was shot on the University of South Alabama campus, jurors were seated in the murder trial of Jamie Letson, whose handwritten letter of amends may…
A national poetry pilgrimage stopped in Mobile on May 8, 2010, when readers gathered at Father Abram Ryan's grave in the Catholic Cemetery to honor five writers with deep ties…
Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson returned to the region where his scientific career began this week for two public appearances tied to his latest book, a novel…
The University of South Alabama has long carried most of the region's indigent care at a loss. With coverage expanding under the new federal law, that arithmetic may finally change.
A new local history book, Mobile Bay: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, has arrived at Bienville Books and other outlets, offering readers a wide-ranging look at the estuary that shapes life…
Hutchens Elementary principal William Foster confirmed a run for the Mobile County school board's District 5 seat, saying he would turn his board salary into scholarships and field trip money…
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby wrote to NOAA in December 2009 arguing that federal red snapper limits were punishing Alabama's charter and recreational fishermen even as the stock appeared to be…