Mobile County News

June 30 -- Three small business owners in Citronelle are surveying the damage after fire ripped through a strip mall.

A woman who suffered third-degree burns after stepping into a shower of 136-degree water has been awarded $750,000 in a settlement of a lawsuit against the apartment manager.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today said it has granted $2.9 million to build two oyster reefs in south Mobile County.

Mobile County officials announced today that 1,200 properties have been cleaned up since the junk control ordinance went into effect a little more than a year ago.

Sixty-six people in Alabama's Mobile County filed federal lawsuits on Tuesday against the manufacturers of travel trailers that they say exposed them to dangerous levels of formaldehyde after Hurricane Katrina.A The lawsuits join about 23,000 others that have been filed in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

A Mobile County grand jury has indicted a 20-year-old man on murder charges that accuse him of driving at 100 mph when he bumped another car off the road, causing a crash that killed three people.

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June 27 - Two of the four men accused of murdering a man, then dumping his body in local woods are out of jail tonight.

The fourth person accused in the Sunday slaying of 22-year-old Jermaine Pettway turned himself in at the Mobile County Metro Jail late Thursday night, according to authorities.

At 1 p.m. today, National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a strong thunderstorm over the Schillinger Road and Three Notch Road area, moving north at 5 mph.

June 25 - A man wanted for holding up a Mobile-area convenience store at gunpoint turned himself in Thursday morning, online jail records showed.

Mobile County Sheriff's deputies have arrested two men in the slaying of 22-year-old Jermaine Pettway and are looking for two more.

The Alabama Forestry Commission is investigating how a prescribed burn on public land in south Mobile County turned into a wildfire that scorched about 2,500 acres, officials said today.

June 22 - On summer days, sunset is a moment many people wait for, but any of the folks at the Baybears game Monday will tell you-- just because the shadows grow long and the sun retreats doesn't mean the heat has called it a day.

Mobile police on Monday arrested a man who they say stole a truck on June 8, according to a news release today.

Principal Terri Tomlinson opens her classrooms at George Hall Elementary to anyone who wants to see how a school goes from having some of the worst test scores in Mobile County to having one of the best reputations in the country.

Changes could be on the way for Mobile County High School students. School leaders unveiled a new rezoning plan during a public hearing at Vigor High School tonight.

More that 800 kids, 800 families who rely on vacation Bible school to build faith, and spend quality time at a quality institution were looking for answers today.

June 18, 2009 - The Mobile County Commission will hold a combined conference and meeting at 10 a.m., Monday, June 22nd.

June 17 - A church in Coden is badly damaged after catching fire Wednesday afternoon.