Mobile AL

The owner of a restaurant that’s been operating in the heart of a coastal Alabama community has set a closing date after more than 18 years in business. Julie Tew notified patrons via social media that Bay Breeze Café, Bar and Grill will hold its final Sunday brunch on March 8 and will close at 3 p.m. Sunday, March...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A man from Mobile has been sentenced for possessing a machine gun. According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Alabama, Antonio Lamarcus Pettaway II, 21, will serve 96 months in prison for possession of a machine gun and 60 months for receipt of a firearm...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The lawyer for a man accused of shooting five people during a shootout outside of a downtown nightclub on the night of Joe Cain Day last month contends his client was not even there. But it is not the first gunbattle that Devon Deangelos Jeffery has...

Coast Guard finds overdue boat; still searching for missing boater. Mobile police respond to shooting in Skipper Drive area. Mobile police said one man is dead following a shooting near the intersection of Valdez Drive and Skipper Drive. 2 dead after Amtrak train hits vehicle on Bellingrath Road. Updated: Feb....

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A fire destroys a home on Bay Road in Mobile early Wednesday morning. Crews were called to a home off Dauphin Island Parkway before 4 am. When they arrived they found a home fully involved in flames. Firefighters were able to get the blaze under control in a matter of minutes […]

MOBILE, Ala. (NBC 15) — The Port of Mobile will welcome a new riverboat cruise ship as part of American Cruise Lines’ Symphony’s inaugural Gulf Coast Cruise. In April 2025, local officials announced that Mobile was chosen as a Port of Call by American, as part of the company’s “most extraordinary year ever.”

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from March. 2, 2026 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A man from Saraland has been sentenced for a murder that occurred in 2022. According to a release from Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood, Tre’Vion Collins Smiley has been given two life sentences for a...

MOBILE, Ala. (NBC 15) — Jameson Smith and Braxton Akridge, former Mobile Firefighters, have both plead guilty of multiple counts of theft of property 3rd degree. The pair was arrested in October 2025 and each was charged with one count of organized retail theft, and 5 counts of theft of property 3rd degree.

A deputy is recovering after being shot because his body-worn camera stopped a potentially fatal bullet. (WKMG, VOLUSIA SHERIFF'S OFFICE, CNN)

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — New video shows the moments after a suspect crashed his car into a home’s A/C unit in Mobile. Police can be heard yelling, “Get on the ground! Get on the ground!” as they chase the suspect, whom officials identified as 21-year-old Bryson Perkins.