Daphne News Archives

Despite dingy, fresh water, speckled trout are still numerous on the flats south of the Causeway and east of the Tensaw River.

Bradford City joint chairman Mark Lawn has condemned a report on a US website which blames the Bradford City fire disaster on hooligans.

'Walkable' cities plans discussed - al.com : "SPANISH FORT a ' About two dozen officials from cities on both sides of Mobile Bay talked Thursday about how to make the entire area a nicer place to walk or bike through, and a safer place to raise children.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Coastal insurance bills proposed by lawmakers from Mobile and Baldwin counties don't go far enough, according to a grassroots group of local homeowners.

After the state awarded the city a $500,000 grant this week, work could begin early next year on a $1.8 million sewer project long planned for an area just east of the Target store on Baldwin County 64.

Oct. 20 -- " We're seeing a good bit of the flu this week,a said Dr. Sharon Lawrence.

Oct. 19 - While LOCAL 15 News found a couple of clinics in Mobile County with the swine flu vaccine, it seems that more places in Baldwin County are stocked up.

The former sites of Cato Fashions and Radio Shack at Magnolia Place shopping center were torn down last month to make room for the construction of a larger Dollar General store, scheduled for completion in mid-November. Work could begin this fall or winter to demolish the former Omni Health and Fitness gym and a neighboring carpet store in order to ...

State artists gathered Saturday evening to celebrate an exhibit at the Johnson Center for the Arts.

Is the tide turning in favor of a temporary one cent sales tax increase for school funding? That's what Baldwin County Commissioners want to know.

James Earl Hulett pleaded guilty today before Baldwin County Circuit Judge Charles Partin on charges relating to money stolen last summer as he impersonated a recruiter for construction workers at the ThyssenKrupp AG site.

"Bugabooger," is a natural and dyed maple with inlays of various exotic wood furniture-like composition, created by Dale Lewis.

Supporting Educational Enrichment in Daphne's Schools, a private community foundation, will host a meeting on Baldwin County's school funding crisis at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Daphne High's Trojan Hall.

It may not be news to those in the restaurant and foodservice distribution industries, where family-owned companies form the majority, but the Wall Street Journal today brings to light the harsh toll the recession is taking on family firms and key reasons many can't hang on any longer.

A state corrections officer at the Loxley Work Release Center was arrested on a felony charge of sexual misconduct with an inmate, authorities said Monday.

Local artist Faye Earnest stands Monday beside the snowy egrets of her finished mural on the side of The Frame Corner in downtown Daphne.

Mobile real estate broker Chip Brown is the first Republican to enter the Public Service Commission race against Democratic incumbent Susan Parker.

A plastic bucket had served as 89-year-old Willie Norville Jones' bathroom since Daphne Utilities shut off his sewer line three weeks ago.

Wet Willie is shown performing at Judge Roy Beans in Daphne, Ala., in 2001. Wet Willie singer Jimmy Hall, pictured with saxophone, says the group s excited about making its first BayFest appearance in eight years.