Mobile AL

Mobile Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis recently appointed and the Mobile City Council unanimously confirmed Curtis Graves as executive director of public safety and Barry Glisson as chief of the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department (MFRD). A longtime Mobile Police officer, Graves brings more than 30 years of experience in criminal...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Cozy Brown’s Kitchen held its annual Thanksgiving meal giveaway on St. Stephens Road. Guests were able to take home a hot meal free of charge. Cozy Brown and his staff passed out several hundred plates of food to everyone who stopped by. Brown said he...

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Nov. 26, 2025 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Salvation Army of Coastal Alabama is in urgent need of pies and cakes to go along with their Thanksgiving Day meals. According to a Salvation Army news release, the organization feeds about 1,500 people in need in Mobile […]

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - It’s all hands on deck for the Waterfront Rescue Mission to pull off their annual Thanksgiving lunch. With temperatures dropping just in time for the holiday. The mission says they prepared for extra people. “Normally we have on average anywhere from 190 to 200 guests...

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Nov. 25, 2025 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile police are investigating a shooting. According to a Mobile Police Department spokesperson, the shooting happened in the 600 block of Reynolds Avenue at around 5:55 p.m. A man was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening...

CHICKASAW, Ala. (WKRG) — For some people, giving back comes naturally, whether it’s volunteering your time, donating to families in need, or lending a hand without being asked. In Chickasaw, there’s a police officer who does all that and more! “He is very involved in the community, goes above and beyond for anybody...

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Nov. 25, 2025 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile school teacher has announced he is running for a seat in the Alabama House of Representatives. Tim Manning, a teacher at Phillips Preparatory School, is running for the House District 101 seat. Manning told News 5 has […]

Efforts are intensifying in Baldwin County as multiple agencies continue to search for Jeffrey Epps, a 15-year-old non-verbal autistic teenager who went missing on Monday. Epps was last seen in the Torrance Road area, as per reports from FOX 5 Atlanta. At 5-foot-3-inches tall and around 135 pounds, he was wearing a...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - For the fourth time in just five years, someone has driven straight through the backyard fence at the Theodore-Dawes Fire Rescue Station on Freeway Lane. Captain Tres Cozine says the incidents are largely a matter of drivers not paying attention. “The traffic flow coming off Hillcrest...

Three unexpected environmentalists have taken on Alabama Power’s coal ash pond in a new documentary. But in their fight, the three retirees (called the “Coal Ash Grannies”) are able to find purpose later in life, and even in the months leading up to their leader’s death.