Fairhope News

MOBILE, Alabama -- In a column published this week, a former high school classmate of Daphne-born jihadist Omar Hammami described being strangled by the teen and later attempting to reconcile with him.

ORANGE BEACH, Alabama - Locals Rob and Laura Ray didn't want to get stuck in holiday traffic on Sunday so they steered clear of the three-deep row of boats jammed around Robinson Island and pointed their 20-footer to Innerarity Point just over the Alabama line.

The scene wasn't so perfect for beach goers in Fairhope Saturday. Thousands of dead fish washed ashore and could be seen floating close to the water line on Fairhope Beach.

Sunday in Fresno, a bake sale fundraiser will be held in honor of an Alabama girl who was accidentally killed by her brother's gun.

Residents in one Fairhope neighborhood are looking for answers after waking up to find the tires slashed on several of their cars.

FAIRHOPE, Alabama -- Questions from Baldwin County Commissioner Tucker Dorsey about the allocation of workers in the 4 probate offices could lead to changes, according to officials.

Two U.S. Army veterans, Jason Day, left, and Justin Bond, center, who call themselves "Vets on Segs," meeti with veteran Lou Lartigue before leaving Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Ala., and riding across the Causeway on Segways Wednesday morning, May 23, 2012, en route to American Legion Post 199 in Fairhope, Ala.

A man from Fairhope who was reported missing in North Carolina has been found. Forty-year-old Mark Byrd hadn't been heard from in four days.

A local family is working to track down a missing man who once lived in Fairhope.

A Baldwin County Grand Jury will now hear a case of a brother accused of shooting and killing his stepsister and injuring his stepbrother.

The unusually mild winter may have been good for citizens' pocketbooks, but it put city government some $700,000 in the hole.

Richard James Tucker, 39, of Fairhope will be sentenced May 24 after being convicted of 13 counts of criminal activities associated with Synergy Finance Group LLC of Robertsdale, Alabama Securities Commission officials said.

Mobile resident Nell Portella, left, is donating a kidney to her sister, Suzanne Mullen of Fairhope.

Daphne Fire Department Spokesman Tom Walker said one firefighter fell backward on his SCBA , and was taken to Thomas Hospital with a back injury.

U.S. Attorney Kenyen Brown announced Friday, May 11, 2012, that his office would not seek criminal charges against Baldwin County officials who installed security cameras that record sound.

The city of Fairhope has been dismissed from a 2009 lawsuit filed by several residents who challenged the development of the Publix grocery store and The Shoppes at Fairhope Village.

After more than 3 hours of deliberation today, jurors returned a murder conviction for Fairhope's Benjamin Kirby Blackman, 27, in the 2010 shooting death of Frisco City resident Thomas "T.J." Perkins, according to a press release from District Attorney Hallie Dixon.

MOBILE, Alabama -- A Prichard man facing a manslaughter charge in Baldwin County and recently arrested and charged with driving under the influence in a Mobile County accident, is out of jail this morning, Mobile County Metro Jail records show.

Baldwin County Commissioner Frank Burt fired back Tuesday at media and school board critics of his vote to oppose a call for a sales tax referendum for schools.

The Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce wants to capitalize on the education of it's residents with it's economic plan.