Bay Minette News

<![CDATA[BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) -- A man who says he looked at child pornography online in search of justice for his wife has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Mark Guilbeau pleaded guilty to seven counts of illegal possession of child pornography in early April. Al.com (http://bit.ly/14zt9DK ) reported Wednesday that he was apologetic and asked for mercy before he was sentenced. Guilbeau's attorney, Denise Baschab, told the judge Guilbeau and his wife were both sexually abused as children, and Guilbeau was looking for images of his wife to ask that they be removed from websites. Prosecutors didn't buy the story. Baldwin County District Attorney David Matheny said Guilbeau had been looking at graphic child pornography for about a year before he was arrested.

BAY MINETTE, Ala. Local 15 News is talking with the victim in a suspected kidnapping case out of Baldwin County.

BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- Baldwin County High School held its commencement ceremony for 220 seniors on Monday, May, 20, at Simmons Field.

In an effort to cut energy and labor costs and improve the efficiencies of its domestic operations, case goods manufacturer Standard Furniture is closing its 300,000-square-foot Frisco City, Ala., plant.

A Baldwin County judge has set a hearing for next month to consider a request by ex-Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine to let him finish his sentence on perjury and harassment charges in his home city.

MOBILE, Ala. If you've ever had to make a trip to the the driver's license office in Mobile on Demetropolis Road, you probably had to wait for three or four hours and wondered why the state is wasting so much of your time.

A life and a career in New York City doing public relations for fashion design company DVF wasn't cutting it for Morgan Tucker.

BAY MINETTE, Ala. A corporal with the Bay Minette Police Department was arrested Friday.

BAY MINETTE, Ala. You may not realize it, but defendants who are not facing the death penalty in capital murder cases and have pleaded guilty still have to go through a trial.

In an effort to cut energy and labor costs and improve the efficiencies of its domestic operations, case goods manufacturer Standard Furniture is closing its 300,000-square-foot Frisco City, Ala., plant.

Bay Minette police say an "ongoing feud" fueled an April 26 assault by four teens on a mother and son watching a ball game at Halliday Park in Bay Minette and landed two 18-year-old city residents in jail early Tuesday morning.

BAY MINETTE, Ala. Property values for thousands of homes in Baldwin County are going up.

Crews continued clean-up operations late Saturday afternoon while trying to clear U.S. Highway 59 South of spillage scattered when an 18-wheeler loaded with fruit overturned just south of Bay Minette.

Rep. Steve McMillan, R-Bay Minette, explains his bill that would provide funding for a state park hotel facility in Gulf Shores on Thursday at the Alabama State House.

College students and their families are preparing for spring commencement season.

An Airbus A380 performs an aerial display at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France, in 2009.

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.

Gulf Shores Fire Rescue's new 18,000-square-foot Station No. 1, shown on Monday, April 29, 2013, is expected to be open by mid-May. GULF SHORES, Alabama -- Nearly a decade of planning will come together later this month for city firefighters when the new 18,000-square-foot Station No.

A man charged in connection with a fatal shooting in Bay Minette last year has been indicted on a murder charge.

BAY MINETTE, Ala. A culinary instructor and the head of the culinary department at Faulkner State Community College have been arrested and charged with theft.