Eight Mile News

MOBILE, Ala. -- A 67-year-old man who robbed a pair of banks last year does not deserve a break, a federal judge in Mobile ruled last week.

Del Sawyer of Sawyer Furniture is pictured in his Sawyer Furniture showroom in this December 2009 photograph.

Prichard Public Works employee Clarence Burden, left, and veterinarian assistant Ruth Vistart with Duke Animal Clinic work to stabilize an emaciated horse outside a stable on the property of a residence on Woodruff Dirve in the Eight Mile, Ala., community Thursday, Feb.

Standing by three emaciated horses that appeared to be dying, a group of neighbors in the Eight Mile community said Wednesday they could not get authorities to check on the animals.

Sheriff's deputies on Tuesday arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting an adult woman last month.

EIGHT MILE, Ala. -- Mobile County sheriff's deputies were still searching this afternoon for a man they say fled into woods off Lott Road after a traffic stop this morning.

An Eight Mile woman accused of participating in a marijuana-growing operation has advanced a novel defense -- her Cuban heritage.

Jan. 23 - One person is dead, and another injured after a single-vehicle crash in Prichard Saturday night.

PRICHARD, Ala. -- A single-vehicle crash on Lott Road this evening left a 33-year-old man dead and injured the 32-year-old driver, Prichard officials said.

Water crews in Prichard are going from one burst pipe to another making repairs.

A 25-year-old man was killed Sunday morning, and three passengers he was driving were injured in a one-car crash on Lott Road, about a mile north of the Prichard city limit, Alabama State Troopers said.

The fallout from coach Lane Kiffin's stunning defection from Tennessee to Southern California this week has sent recruitA ers into a feeding frenzy.

During the recent freeze across southwest Alabama, Thomasena Spencer was among several residents throughout Prichard left without running water.

Loxley police arrested two Mobile County men on drug charges and are seeking a third manwho fled on foot after officers stopped a car Monday night and found meth and components for making the drug Monday night.

Jan. 10 - Several residents in Prichard's Eight Mile area complain that the city's water company have left them with little or no water for more than a week.

Dauphin Island insurance agent Mark Rowley's history of missteps should disqualify him from continuing in the profession, a lawyer for the Alabama Department of Insurance suggested during a disciplinary hearing.

Born on Aug. 5th to 16-year old Jamesha Harbin of Eight Mile, Ala., after 21 to 24 weeks of gestation, Oliviyanna Harbin-Page weighed only 259 grams, or 9.1 ounces, possibly making her, according to the University of South Alabama Children Women's Hospital, the world's smallest surviving baby.

Mobile County License Commissioner Kim Hastie said Wednesday that the downtown office at Claiborne and Government streets will close temporarily beginning Monday.

Jo Ellen Russell refused to give a teenage boy money at her Eight Mile home, so he killed her, authorities said Saturday.

Mobile police are looking for suspects after a woman was shot and killed in Eight Mile.