Mobile County News

Hancock Bank announced last month that there would be layoffs in Alabama, as well as other states in the Gulf Coast region.

Mobile County Circuit Judge Joseph "Rusty" Johnston talks to Carlos Kennedy during a hearing Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.

MOBILE, Alabama - A prosecutor and defense lawyer today offered competing arguments about what led to the vicious beating of a man who once was a close friend of defendant Brandon Estle .

State Health Officer Don Williamson today introduced a proposed map dividing the state into five regions for Medicaid services under a new managed care system.

AXIS, Ala. Creola Police are investigating after a man was shot on Father's Day.

AXIS, Ala. Mobile County EMS is responding to reports of one shot in Axis. It happened near Creola Axis Loop North.

Guy Busby, a Mobile Press-Register reporter and columnist from 1987 to 2012, explores coverage by the Press-Register during with Civil War years.

The Southwest Alabama Workforce Development Council and Alabama Industrial Development Training program partnered to host a maritime and construction trades career fair Jan. 16, 2013, at the AIDT Maritime Training Center in Mobile.

MOBILE, Ala. State leaders from Alabama are on their way to Europe for the Paris Air show.

Tony Rowell, 34, was arrested in the shooting death of Shannon LeeAnn Deas, then-29, on April 30, 2011.

MOBILE, Ala. If the Port City finds itself in the path of a storm, local emergency managers set off a contingency plan.

A proposed pipeline that would run through Mobile County to the Chevron Pascagoula refinery has many folks concerned.

Southern Airways Express is set to transform travel along Alabama's Gulf Coast Friday when its first 9-seater Cessna lands at Jack Edwards National Airport just after 2 p.m. "Not only do we expect to bring vacationers to the Alabama beaches, but we also hope to provide local residents and business people in Baldwin and Mobile counties with a quick ... (more)

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. Folks who live in Bayou La Batre's Safe Harbor, a FEMA funded housing community originally for Hurricane Katrina victims, believe it's become a money maker for the city.

A 16-year-old boy who was being forced by his parents to live outside while the adults were away from the home will remain at the home, according to a Mobile County Sheriff's Office spokesperson.

Keenan Olson, 24, was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday, June 13, 2013, after he was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of his 70-year-old stepfather.

Tony Rowell, 34, was arrested in the shooting death of Shannon LeeAnn Deas, then-29, on April 30, 2011.

Dr. Josiah Nott, founder of the Medical College of Alabama, demonstrated insight beyond his time when it came to hypothesizing about the causes of yellow fever but racist beliefs common for his era.

According to testimony on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, this photo taken by Justin Hasty's mother, Sandra "Sandy" Hasty on Saturday, October 20, 2012, is the last Sandy Hasty took of her son.

Parents who want to get ahead of the game for back-to-school immunizations may now schedule appointments with the Mobile County Health Department's Immunization Clinic at 251 N. Bayou St. in downtown Mobile.