Prichard News

July 8 - Acting on a tip, SWAT teams surrounded a home on Mill Street in Mobile hoping to catch an accused murderer.

MOBILE - A prominent lawyer for a Daphne city worker pursuing a discrimination suit says he missed a court deadline because he learned his prostate cancer has spread and is terminal.

July 5 - One man is dead, and one is listed in stable condition after a Fourth of July celebration ended in gunfire.

July 5 - His name is William Darnell Kidd. His nickname is "Red," but police are calling him something different: a suspect.

July 5 - Family members say Clarence Risper and his cousin, Rogerette Douglas were trying to break up a fight between neighbors when a man pulled out a gun and started shooting.

A 20-year-old man was shot and killed outside a residence in Prichard, and police were searching today for the man they believe did the shooting.

July 3 - Prichard police are searching for a suspect they say shot and killed a man Thursday afternoon.

Prichard police arrested a man they say broke into an elementary school. Around 5:00 a.m. Thursday, the burglar alarm sounded at Whitley Elementary School.

Police dogs dragged a 19-year-old man from underneath a house just inside Prichard this morning, after police said he and another man broke into an apartment on a nearby block in Mobile.

After losing her Bayou La Batre home to Hurricane Katrina, Jennifer Adams made a commitment, along with her best friend, Nichole Barnett of Grand Bay, to clean up the piles of wreckage in the town.

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A 27-year-old man was charged with burglary today after he was seen running from Whitely Elementary School.

June 25 - A man was arrested, accused of burglarizing a local school Thursday morning, Prichard Police said.

It's nice to know a week of sitting on a beach in Mexico didn't make things around here seem any more sane.

The pastor of an Eight Mile church has spent her life helping others. Now, the shoe is on the other foot for Dr.

A man who received his high school diploma from Vigor High School at the age of 72 has died.

June 19 - Business owners in Prichard say they have had enough of burglars breaking into their businesses and thieves making off with their merchandise.

The Mobile County school board is holding a public hearing at 6 p.m. in Vigor High School's auditorium to reveal a new zoning map for Murphy, Davidson, LeFlore, Williamson and B.C. Rain high schools in Mobile, as well as Blount and Vigor high schools in Prichard.

June 11 - A 10 year old and 15 year old have been arrested by Prichard Police for multiple burglaries involving elementary schools.

A Gulf Shores man accused of robbing a Compass Bank branch here appeared in federal court last week and was ordered jailed for the time being.