Satsuma News

Robert Vezendy, a partially paralyzed man who admitted to secretly recording young girls in the bathroom of his Satsuma home, received Thursday the most lenient sentence allowed by law, after the judge heard about his difficult experiences in prison while undergoing psychological evaluation.

Moist and tiny eyes staring at the people who just plucked it from the Spanish River, a manatee has its blood drawn for genetic testing on a research boat in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta.

A registered sex offender police believe was living near a Satsuma day care was arrested for violating his probation, police said today.

Logan Lane Griffin and Jessica Diane Crane would like to announce their wedding.

Evacuation centers set up by the American Red Cross at Theodore High School and Satsuma High School took in at least 54 people as of 8:30 p.m. tonight as Tropical Storm Ida approached, the American Red Cross reported.

Nov. 9 -- Shelters are opening in the area for those living in low-lying areas, flood-prone areas or near the water.

TROPICAL STORM IDA INFORMATION Mobile County Emergency Management Agency Officials are recommending a voluntary evacuation of those residents living in a mobile/manufactured home and low-lying, flood prone areas.

November 4 - A neighborhood unites to find out why convicted sex offender Michael Brooks was able to move onto their street without anyone knowing.

SATSUMA, Alabama - A group of people in Mobile County said they weren't notified about a registered sex offender moving into their neighborhood.

The best of the main crop Satsumas "Owari" - Sometimes listed as "Frost Owari," which may suggest something about the conditions that should occur as it ripens.

A satsuma is a very specific kind of tangerine with a distinctive sweet and tangy taste, nearly void of seeds, wrapped in a skin that flicks off with the nick of your thumb.

A baby girl was born just hours after her mother, father and two sisters were among five people injured in a three-vehicle crash in south Mobile County.

A Satsuma woman who spent more than the $100,000 that her credit union accidentally deposited into her account will serve probation with no prison time, a federal judge in Mobile decided Wednesday.

Investigators have charged a 16-year-old from McCalla with murder in the shooting death of his father.

Things are about to get wild for some children in Mobile and Gulf Shores. Peter Gros, co-host of the original Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, along with some of his animal friends, will make a few appearances on Saturday, Oct.

Oct. 13 - A portion of the northbound lanes of Interstate 65 near Satsuma remained closed Tuesday night after an 18-wheeler crash.

Police in Russellville say a man has been wounded by a police officer in an exchange of shots after a foot chase.

A 19-year-old man faces murder charges after police say he threw a street sign through a car windshield, striking and killing the vehicle's driver Saturday.

On a 2-0 vote, the Mobile County Commission approved splitting $200,000 among four local public schools Monday, a matter that drew some concern from one commissioner last week.

A dog born with just three legs is up for adoption at the Mobile County Animal Shelter.