Spanish Fort News

Spanish Fort High School held its commencement ceremony for 227 seniors Monday, May 21, at the Spanish Fort Toros Stadium.

To win its first Class 6A state baseball championship tonight, Hewitt-Trussville is going to have to buck the trend.

Gary Cosby Jr./ Decatur Daily Hartselle High defeats Spanish Fort 8-2 in game one of the state championship series in Montgomery Friday, May 17, 2013.

At 6 p.m. on June 3, the Mobile County Master Gardeners will be playing host to the ultimate dinner party for friends, only with a slight variation.

The Hartselle baseball team has already made history in a lot of ways, like shortstop Brett Blackwood setting a state record for most hits in a season.

During a public hearing at the Spanish Fort Planning Commission meeting Monday night, subdivision residents living adjacent to the proposed Quail Hollow development said they were worried the additional traffic flowing from the planned 147 condominium units would significantly worsen already congested conditions on Alabama Highway 225.

Rev. Stan Givens, pastor at Northside Bible Church in Mobile, prays at the funeral service for Leo Mack Carpenter, 81, on April 19.

A sign outside a church in Mobile, Alabama, invites guests and members to worship with the congregation in May 2013.

MOBILE, Alabama - An admitted bank robber will go to prison for almost four years, a federal judge ruled this morning.

SPANISH FORT, Ala. A local mother is doing what she can to raise awareness to a childhood disorder.

MOBILE, Ala. A Spanish Fort artist's sketch will be featured as the poster for 2013 Bayfest.

A Spanish Fort student is hoping to doodle her way to a $30,000 college scholarship and a $50,000 technology grant for her school with the help of the doodle masters, Google.

The 9th Honor Flight South Alabama is set to fly 101 WWII veterans from Mobile to Washington, D.C. for a day of reflection and celebration at the national war memorials this Wednesday.

SPANISH FORT, Ala. A Spanish Fort High School senior is facing two charges. Eighteen-year-old Bryant Graham was arrested Thursday around 3:15 p.m. He's charged with first degree sodomy and first degree sexual abuse.

SPANISH FORT, Ala. A Spanish Fort High School football players arrested on rape accusations has been indicted on four charges.

The grand jury indicted Johnson earlier this month on charges in those two cases and in a third case in which he is charged with first-degree rape.

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. Alabama State Troopers are on the scene after a tractor trailer went into the water off the Bayway.

Dozens of male southern toads filled the air with their high-pitch trills while trying to attract a mate along a ditch close to downtown Bay Minette on Wednesday, May 1, 2013.

All this week, we're taking a look at some of the busiest, congested roads in our area and asking what is being done to alleviate congestion ahead of anticipated growth with Airbus? Highway 31 in Spanish Fort is the main corridor in this growing community and mostly two lanes.

The Bleyswyk children of Semmes take a break from the Marine Resources "Touch Tank" during Spanish Fort's 2013 Delta Woods and Waters Expo Saturday, April 27, 2013, at 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center.