‘Everybody started running chaotic’: Witnesses recall back-to-back shootings in Downtown Mobile
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Witnesses recall the terrifying moments after back-to-back shootings in downtown Mobile Sunday night, leaving one person dead and multiple people injured. “I mean it was kind of total chaos,” said Calla Ethridge, a witness. Police responded to Dauphin and Joachim streets shortly after 11 last...
UPDATE: Baldwin County Assistant District Attorney says suspect and man killed in Elberta shooting...
Gunfire erupted during an argument between neighbors early this morning in Elberta, leaving one person dead, and another charged with murder.
The Cheese Cottage Mobile: Specialty Cheese Shop and Restaurant
The Cheese Cottage in Mobile, Alabama, is a cheese lover's dream combining a specialty cheese shop showcasing some of the world's best cheeses with a full restaurant serving creative dishes that put quality cheese front and center. TL;DR Don't have time to read the full article? Here are my top...
Merry Widows wail, crowds cheer, and one lucky reveler leaves with a top prize...
Wearing a “Joe Knows” ballcap outside the Old Church Street Graveyard on Sunday, Tanner Parrish waited patiently for the famed Merry Widows of Joe Cain to make their annual arrival and pay homage to their “beloved Joe.”. What he didn’t expect was to leave with the most...
Storm Line Weakening Overnight as It Pushes from Louisiana into Southwest Alabama, Bringing Mainly...
ALABAMA — A line of storms currently moving across Louisiana is expected to push into Southwest Alabama between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. Sunday, but forecasters say the system should gradually weaken as it arrives. Latest forecast radar guidance shows a solid band of rain and embedded thunderstorms stretching from...
More Than 20 City Vehicles Headed For Surplus As Foley Plans Upgrades
Foley, Ala. – (OBA) – Need a good used car? Need a car? Foley will declare more than 20 vehicles and pieces of equipment in the city’s fleet from various departments as surplus and no longer needed. Foley is also looking to add some new vehicles to city departments, as well as replacements.
Here be dragons: Mobile fires up Mardi Gras fervor on an action-packed day
If you happened to approach downtown Mobile via eastbound I-10 late Saturday morning, you got to see an aspect of the Port City that would have sounded like a pipe dream just a few years ago. First, you passed a logjam on the exit ramp for Canal Street. There was...
Sunday motorcade in Mobile offers preview of Fat Tuesday’s Mammoth Parade
Mobile got an advance taste of one of its biggest Carnival parades Sunday, when the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association held its annual King Elexis I motorcade. MAMGA royalty and officers traveled westward from the waterfront, shortly before the massive Joe Cain Procession took over downtown. See photos in the...
Mobile shows its wild side as it celebrates Joe Cain Day
First came the marchers: Evergreens, Nevergreens, Pelican Girls, Monstrous Women, Mystic Dollys of Folly, space aliens, Parrotheads, Squirrels of Bienville, zombies, pirates, mistresses of Joe Cain, Wild Mauvillians and more. And that was barely the half of it, as an equally eclectic series of floats followed through...
Foley making parking improvements at new city parking lot
FOLEY, Ala. (WALA) - The City of Foley says in a press release the city’s new parking lot at U.S. 98 and Alabama 59 will get more improvements. FOLEY – Foley’s new city parking lot at the intersection of U.S. 98 and Alabama 59 will get more improvements following action by the City Council.

















