Bayou La Batre News

December 2 - It's now a holiday tradition. New York City firefighters make their way to the Gulf Coast each year to help the less fortunate.

The firefighters are expected to arrive in Daphne on Thursday and distribute toys in the Bayou La Batre area on Friday.

Horizon Shipbuilding, Inc., Bayou La Batre, AL, has launched the second of five 140 ft towboats for Mandeville, La., based Florida Marine Transporters .

Tillman's Corner Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring Breakfast with Santa on Dec.

November 23 - From Jackson, Alabama to Bayou La Batre nearly 500 people are facing unemployment along the Gulf Coast just in the last month.

Police say an adult victim who was struck along with nine children after a woman lost control of her car outside a Fairfield middle school has died.

While driving around Bayou La Batre looking for shots and film footage to accompany our stories on the woes of the local shrimp fishing industry, we were struck by the decay and decline here.

" Steve Patronas said this is not a business for the young. "If you look around at who's running the shrimp boats around here, ain't none of us young," he said, while moving about the deck of his small boat the Terry Lee, which he uses to trawl for shrimp in the bay around Bayou La Batre.

Nov. 12 - High fuel costs and high maintenance costs have added to shrimpersa woes in Bayou La Batre, Alabama and the recession has only made things worse.

Nov. 11 - A huge chunk of Alabama's federal stimulus money is set aside for Mobile County.

Nov. 9 - Dauphin Island was in the dark Monday night as Tropical Storm Ida moved closer to a Gulf Coast landfall.

Some storm-hardened residents of Bayou La Batre who had lived through Hurricane Katrina rolled their eyes at the mention of Tropical Storm Ida.

Dr. Regina Benjamin was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 29 as the next U.S. surgeon general, making the Black Alabama physician the nationa s top doctor.

Regina M. Benjamin, M.D. was unanimously confirmed as Surgeon General by the Senate late yesterday .

Main Category: Public Health Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance ; Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP Article Date: 02 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST The Senate confirmed Alabama doctor Regina Benjamin as surgeon general Thursday night.

Main Category: Public Health Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 02 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST The Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Regina Benjamin to be U.S. surgeon general, Roll Call reports.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the United States Senate unanimously confirmed Dr.

Oct. 30 - Dr. Regina Benjamin is headed back to the Gulf Coast with a new title: U.S. Surgeon General.

An Irvington woman is arrested in connection with two robberies in broad daylight.

A baby girl was born about 8 p.m. Saturday, hours after her mother, father and two sisters were among five people hurt in a three-vehicle crash in south Mobile County.