Mobile County deputies search for answers after woman’s shooting death
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile County Sheriff’s Office deputies are continuing to search for answers one year after a woman was shot and killed in her home. According to an MCSO Facebook post, 67-year-old Ethel Moore Thomas was shot and killed while she was asleep in her bed in the early morning hours of […]
Man arrested after ex-girlfriend claimed he kidnapped her in Alabama, assaulted her in Mississippi...
A man was recently arrested in Mississippi, where he was charged with allegedly kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from her home in south Alabama and sexually assaulting her.
Serial Mobile PEEPING TOM charged again in Cullman County
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — A convicted serial ‘peeping tom’ from Mobile County has been arrested in North Alabama on the same charges. Patrick Scott Herron has arrests across Mobile and Baldwin County going back to 2016 when he was charged with taking cellphone video of women inside the bathroom stalls at San Miguel's...
Tax on groceries in Alabama to go from 3% to 2%
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Get ready to pay a little less for a cart full of groceries. Alabama house bill 386 is set to take effect a month from today after Gov. Kay Ivey signed off on it earlier this summer. It lowers the state sales tax on groceries from...
Mobile woman evacuates during Hawaiian Tsunami Warning
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile woman who currently lives in Kahului, Hawaii, had to evacuate Tuesday afternoon after the statewide Tsunami Warning went into effect. Raven Wright was just 30 minutes away from her house when the alert was issued around 2 p.m. At first, Wright said she “wasn’t really worried about it.”...
Electrical problem darkens restaurant, top floors of downtown’s Trustmark building
It was just after daylight arrived Saturday morning when the call went out... "Engine 3, engine 8, engine 2, truck 4, Rescue 3, District One chief.," blared the police scanner. "Electronic alarm, high rise... at 107 St. Francis Street." That address happens to be one of Mobile's tallest buildings, the...
Toulminville firefighters’ kind gesture for disabled resident
MOBILE, Ala (WKRG) — Firefighters with the Toulminville Fire Station and a few volunteers went above and beyond the line of duty to help a Mobile man and his elderly mom. Gwendolyn Stokes has lived in Mobile for five years with her son Robert, but this isn’t your average mother-son duo. Robert is autistic, diabetic,...
City of Mobile and developer bringing workforce housing to Phillips Lane
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — The City of Mobile and its partners are building more workforce housing. New homes are going up on Phillips Lane near Forest Hill Elementary School. The city is calling this a true public private partnership with a developer who brought the idea before the city.
Extremely hot temperatures could fuel a rise in crime
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — As temperatures spike across the Gulf Coast, experts warn that the heat may be doing more than just making people uncomfortable. “Heat not only affects us physically, but that physical effect, the dehydration and the exhaustion and just the temperature itself can lead to psychological issues,”...
Yo Jonesy Jones: Musical Dynamo
Studying music and advancing as an artist has always been my goal. Through this journey I’ve realized that I want to create and provide a platform for other artists like myself by learning the business, doing the business and teaching the business. —Yo Jonesy Jones. Those are the...