Semmes News

Nov. 28 - Deaths on Alabama highways are now at three after the Thanksgiving holiday.

A pickup truck and a tractor-trailer collided at a traffic light near Wilmer early Friday, killing a 27-year-old Semmes man, Alabama State Troopers said.

A Semmes man became the state's third traffic fatality at 5:25 a.m. Friday when his 1998 pickup was struck by an 18-wheeler in Mobile County, state troopers report.

The Mobile County Health Department last week closed a day care whose owner has had at least two other local child care centers shut down since 2002.

State legislators gathered for their annual luncheon with the Mobile County school board had mixed feelings about whether Alabama should allow the formation of charter schools.

DeShon Riley stands charged with felony rape in Monroe County. Justin Williams stands accused of felony rape in Monroe County.

Nov. 19th - Three men have been named in the gang-rape of at least one, possibly two 14 year old girls in Monroeville.

Lower-than-expected bids on a $2.5 million water project at Troy University Dothan will allow the city to install a larger capacity tank to meet the needs of a growing northwest Dothan.

MOBILE, Ala. -- Mobile County school board member Reginald Crenshaw said the district has taken a good "first step" recently in hiring local and minority contractors to build schools.

After three long and crazy weeks of Herman Thomas' trial and some fairness issues with the tanker contract, Mobile decided she needed the day off.

October 30 - You never know who's on the other side of the door when the kids come calling for candy, but it's not hard to get an idea.

Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran, center, looks on Friday as Mary G. Montgomery High School senior Hannah Cagle, 17, makes a face when she sees her picture on a computer after it was rendered by Mobile County Sheriff's Deputy Vanessia Matthews using the Face2Face system Friday, Oct.

October 22nd--The Pantry also known as Kangaroo Express on Moffet Rroad was already on hot seat after employees were caught working without proper food handlers permit cards.

There's new information in the murder of a Saraland soldier. Family members identify the victim as 57 year old Anthony Embley, Sr.

Bahm was driving north on Ala. 217 when his 1995 Buick Lesabre crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a truck driven by Jacob Glenn Warren of Semmes, according to state troopers.

MOBILE, Ala. -- The Mobile County Commission will hold three meetings to get public input on the future of the area's parks, playgrounds and recreational opportunities.

A Semmes man died tonight when the pickup truck he was driving ran off Firetower Road and crashed into a tree, according to State Troopers.

Mary G. Montgomery High School freshmen repeater students in the "Strategies for Academic Success" class don hard hats at a Habitat for Humanity house under construction in Grand Bay, Ala., Friday, Oct.

A prominent Mobile chef, fired from his culinary teaching job at a junior college when it appeared he was a student in his own course, found the legal recipe for getting his position back.

Stephanie Chase LeGrone, a chemistry teacher at Mary G. Montgomery High School in Semmes, Ala., just outside Mobile, thought she was going to an assembly Thursday to celebrate the school's test scores.