Foley News

Navy Reserve Chaplain Candidate Ensign Jason Meaux and Preston Cody Lee waits for cars to go by as they start the first leg in the fourth annual Ernest Roy Sr.

Foley City Councilwoman Vera Quaites, second from right, and City Clerk Vickey Southern accept the Alabama Community of Excellence sign.

Baldwin County school officials will take action to fix drainage problems affecting the Foley Elementary School area that have continued since construction began on the new school.

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.

The South Baldwin Chamber of Commerce proudly announces the forthcoming eighth annual Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival beginning on Friday June 15 at 2:00 P.M., and ending on Sunday June 17 at 10:00 A.M. They are expecting about 50 balloonists from across the country to participate in this festival.

Storms were definitely in the air... you could see it coming. They did in Grand Bay.

School board members voted Thursday to rescind a contract with a Pensacola company hired to do custodial work at Foley High earlier this year when the company raised its price by some $50,000. "We had 2 companies who submitted bids in response to our request for proposals," Baldwin County Superintendent Alan Lee said.

City officials are considering a request to make up $25,000 in school program funding lost to Baldwin County Commission budget cuts.

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.

For four decades, Mother's Day weekend in Foley has meant strolling under the oaks looking over paintings, pottery and other artwork.

A central Kentucky man wanted for custodial interference has been found with his three children in a trailer park southern Alabama.

The south Baldwin County economy continues to bounce back from the oil spill and other setbacks of the last several years, Foley Mayor John Koniar told members of the South Baldwin Chamber of Commerce .

Roof and jail repairs should resolve problems plaguing the municipal Justice Center, such as water damage and malfunctioning locks, since the $3.7 million facility opened 12 years ago, city officials said.

Baldwin County EMA Director Mitchell Sims named Reggie Chitwood as his choice to fill the open deputy director's slot for the agency at today's county commission work session.

Foley Police arrested Stephen Scott and charged him with raping a 77-year-old woman.

The Coastal Resiliency Coalition , formed in the wake of the 2010 oil spill, sent out its last newsletter in April, on the second anniversary of the disaster, but the group has no plans to stop efforts to promote cooperation and planning among local businesses and government, members said.

With one of the last segments of a 29-mile walking and cycling trail through the Eastern Shore nearing completion, organizers are looking at ways to extend the route to other areas of Baldwin County.

This image from a security camera video shows a robber inside the Waffle House restaurant on the Foley Beach Expressway in Foley, Ala.

The search for missing man David Dill, who told his wife early Monday that he was going for a swim and disappeared, ended when his wife found him at a Waffle House in Bay Minette, according to a report by WALA-TV10. Baldwin County sheriff's spokesman Maj.

Summer Moody's mother remembers her as a rambunctious, free-spirited adventuresome girl -- someone who had broken an arm three times by age 4 and loved to climb trees in dresses.