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updated: Tue Jul 08, 2008 02:06 pm

Mobile County News

Local, regional, and statewide news continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

11 hrs ago | Everything Alabama

Farm Service Agency County Committee seats

Mobile County agricultural producers have until Aug. 1 to nominate candidates for the two seats on the Farm Service Agency County Committee, according to Bruce West, county executive director of the Mobile ...

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Mon Jul 07, 2008

WAAY-TV Huntsville

Deputies search, find no trace of missing woman

An anonymous phone call led sheriff's deputies to search for a missing Bayou La Batre woman in a swampy area of south Mobile County, but nothing was found.

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Related Topix: Bayou La Batre, AL, Irvington, AL, Grand Bay, AL

Sun Jul 06, 2008

Everything Alabama

Strong storms crossing south Mobile County

Strong thunderstorms are being detected over southern Mobile County. At 3:12 p.m., National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a line of thunderstorms from 15 miles west of Dees to 10 miles southwest of ...

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Related Topix: Weather, Grand Bay, AL, Bayou La Batre, AL

Sat Jul 05, 2008

NBC 15 Online

Man Killed After Argument Turns Deadly

An elderly man is in jail tonight after Mobile County Sheriff's Deputies say he shot and killed another man after an argument.

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Related Topix: Theodore, AL

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Alabama Live

Criminal gambling charges dropped

Mobile police arrested a local businessman with much fanfare last month on gambling charges and seized money, games and other property.

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Related Topix: Mobile, AL, Wilmer, AL

Thu Jul 03, 2008

The Mobile Register Online

Judge denies bail in double shooting

A Mobile County district judge denied bail this morning for four men accused in the shooting of a 6-year-old boy and a man with assault-style rifles Monday night.

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Related Topix: Mobile Metro, Mobile, AL

Wed Jul 02, 2008

Everything Alabama

Mobile police make assault, theft arrests

Police arrested a Mobile man Tuesday in connection with the theft of approximately 1,500 feet of copper, according to a news release sent today.

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Related Topix: Mobile, AL

Tue Jul 01, 2008

Daily Home

Jury finds convicted sex offender guilty of 3 felonies

A St. Clair County jury found a sex offender who failed to notify local authorities when he moved into the city guilty of three felonies Tuesday.

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Related Topix: St Clair County, AL, Pell City, AL, Randolph County, AL

The Mobile Register Online

Police arrest three men in shooting of 6-year-old boy

Shortly before dawn this morning, Mobile police arrested three men in connection with a Monday night shooting that sent a 6-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man to the hospital.

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Related Topix: Mobile, AL

Mon Jun 30, 2008

Everything Alabama

Accused rapist gets 25 years for child pornography

A federal judge today sentenced a Mobile man to 25 years in prison for possession and distribution of child pornography in a case that prosecutors said involved the rape and sodomy of a 13-year-old Chunchula ...

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Related Topix: Chunchula, AL

Wed Jun 25, 2008

WLOX-TV Biloxi

Texas woman arrested after police seize 570 pounds of pot

A Texas woman is in a south Alabama jail after a police officer found 570 pounds of marijuana concealed in a car.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Bay Minette, AL, Baldwin County, AL

Tue Jun 24, 2008

Montgomery Advertiser

Toddler found wandering in Mobile

MOBILE - A 3-year-old boy was found wandering alone after midnight last week on a rural Mobile County road.

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Related Topix: Mobile, AL

Sun Jun 22, 2008

Alabama Live

Storm readiness falls off

Two harmless hurricane seasons and rising costs for food and gas may be keeping many people in Mobile and Baldwin counties from preparing for a possible storm, according to emergency and health officials.

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Related Topix: Mobile, AL, Baldwin County, AL

Fri Jun 20, 2008

Everything Alabama

Officials warn of food stamp scam

If someone saying they work for the Alabama Department of Human Resources' food stamps program calls asking for your date of birth, Social Security number or other personal information, hang up, authorities ...

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Social Security

Wed Jun 18, 2008

WAFF-TV Huntsville

Boeing wins key round in Air Force tanker protest

Officials in Mobile are disappointed with a ruling by congressional investigators upholding Boeing's protest of a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract awarded to Northrop Grumman Corp.

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Related Topix: Mobile, AL, Manufacturing, Aerospace-Defense, Northrop Grumman

Tue Jun 17, 2008

WAFF-TV Huntsville

Construction starts July 7 on jobs center for steel mill

Construction begins July 7 on a $12 million center that will train workers for jobs at the ThyssenKrupp steel mill being built in north Mobile County.

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Fri Jun 13, 2008

The Birmingham News

Continue reading "German chemical company pondering $65 million Alabama expansion"

Posted by Charles R. McCauley -- Birmingham News June 09, 2008 9:37 AM German chemicals maker Evonik Industries AG today said it is will decide this year on whether it will build a $65 million methyl mercaptan ...

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Related Topix: Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Metro, Theodore, AL

Wed Jun 11, 2008

The Mobile Register Online

Papa Buddha's bar robbed; owner's wife faces gambling charge

Posted by Ron Colquitt, Staff Reporter June 10, 2008 5:44 PM A woman armed with a semiautomatic pistol robbed Papa Buddha's bar on Broad Street early today and later in the day the bar owner's wife was arrested ...

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Related Topix: Mobile, AL, Wilmer, AL

Mon Jun 09, 2008

WAFF-TV Huntsville

4 charged in fatal beating

The weekend beating death of a 60-year-old man resulted in the arrests of 4 males.

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Sun Jun 08, 2008

NBC 15 Online

Winners, Losers, and Several in between after Primary

Levon Manzie is a 25-year-old man with no political experience. Nevertheless, he's managing to give the president of the Mobile County School Board a run for his money.

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