Baldwin County News

The weather service is reporting some impressive rainfall totals from Tropical Storm Ida in Alabama.

Foley officials have opened a 33-year-old time capsule as part of the Baldwin County Bicentennial celebration.

Nov. 9 - People living in Baldwin County are under orders to stay indoors until Tropical Storm Ida blows over.

Squalls ahead of a rare late-season tropical storm that was crawling toward the Gulf Coast blew in heavy rain Monday as residents hunkered down mostly at home to ride out high winds and anticipated flooding.

ROBERTSDALE - Evacuees from Tropical Storm Ida are finding a place to stay at a huge shelter near the Alabama coast.

The Baldwin County Drug Task Force will use $465,705 in economic stimulus funds to help the unit investigate, arrest and prosecute drug offenders.

Longtime Baldwin County Commissioner Frank Burt's televised rebuke of school board staff members on Oct.

Baldwin County planners have recommended that the County Commission rezone 10 beachfront acres on the Fort Morgan peninsula, even though the change won't allow the property to be developed.

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While Pensacola has been honoring its 450th birthday of late, this past year, Baldwin County has been celebrating its 200th year since being founded.

Police say a man jailed in Bay Minette is linked to a Jamaican lottery scam that swindled two Foley residents out of more than $1 million.

Nov. 3 - For the first time since Eric Buzbee was found not guilty in the brutal beating death of Bobby Wilson, Wilson's family is speaking out.

A Mobile County man accused of killing his father-in-law, an Army veteran, has been arrested on 15 felony charges in the last four years, court records show, and had only recently been paroled after serving a fraction of his sentence.

Baldwin County is a step closer to a second permanent child advocacy center with the awarding of a $90,000 grant by Impact 100 to CARE House.

Parents and children wait for free swine flu shots at a walk-in and drive-through clinic run by the Mobile County Health Department at Hank Aaron Stadium on Wednesday morning, Oct.

Leslie Eric Buzbee, 25, is a free man. A Baldwin County Circuit Court jury found him not guilty on all murder charges related to the death of Arthur "Bobby" Wilson of Spanish Fort in 2007.

A 52-year-old elementary school principal has died three weeks after contracting an illness doctors said was swine flu.

The City Council will, however, consider leasing capacity at its new wastewater treatment plant to Birmingham-based Integra Water, which agreed last year to build and operate a sewage treatment facility for the nonprofit East Central Baldwin County Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authority.

Oct. 28 - Health Officials say they did not know what to expect from the H1N1 vaccination clinic, but they were pleased with the turnout.

The financial crisis in Baldwin County's schools is taking center stage tonight in Summerdale.