Mount Vernon News

Dec. 9 - For people out of work this holiday season, ThyssenKrupp is hiring. Hundreds of people waited in line this morning at a job fair in Mount Vernon.

Looking for a job? Thyssenkrupp Steel and Thyssenkrupp Stainless USA are hiring.

In this file photo, pipe welder Chris Watson prepares a pipe to weld in the basement under the hot strip mill which sits 35 feet below ground at the ThyssenKrupp steel mill under construction in Calvert.

Two people are dead tonight after authorities say a woman was shot by her husband then he turned the gun on himself.

Authorities say a man shot and killed his wife and then killed himself with the same rifle.

A woman was shot to death this morning by her husband, who then shot himself to death, the Mobile County Sheriff's Office said.

Oct 15 -- The Mobile County Sheriff's Office is investigating the deaths of two people found shot to death in a car in Mt.

A sentinel chicken in the Mount Vernon area has tested positive for West Nile virus, health officials said today.

Sept. 18 -- It's a hurt that cuts deep into the Citronelle High School campus. A popular fellow classmate and football teammate is dead... killed in a car crash on his way home from a church supper.

Sheriff's deputies have shot a man they say pointed a shotgun at them while they investigated a suspected meth lab in Citronelle.

John McDonald, the 42-year-old man shot Tuesday during a methamphetamine lab bust in north Mobile County, was out on $50,000 bail on similar charges when the shooting happened, online court records show.

Sheriff's deputies shot a man this afternoon during an investigation into a suspected methamphetamine operation east of Citronelle, sheriff's spokesman Maj.

July 16 - Brandon Newburn, 24, is charged with the murder of a Mt. Vernon man. The body of Chuck Black, 38, was found in Citronelle Thursday.

Mobile County Health Department offering free prostate cancer screenings The Mobile County Health Department is offering free prostate cancer screenings through Friday, July 31, at the following locations:  Adult Clinic, 251 N. Bayou St.

July 14 -- The search for a missing Mt. Vernon man continues. Chuck Black, 38, disappeared from a bar in Citronelle early Sunday morning.

Mobile County Health Department schedules special days for school immunizations and processing out-of-state student immunization information.