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Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from March 18, 2026 FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WKRG) — Foiling sailors on the Gulf Coast area will soon have the opportunity to compete in a regatta. According to a news release, the Performance Regattas Fast Eddie Cup is bringing two racing events to Fairhope. The first event is […]

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from March 19, 2026 SPANISH FORT, Ala. (WKRG) — A pedestrian bridge on a sidewalk in Spanish Fort is temporarily closed, according to city officials. According to a City of Spanish Fort Facebook post, the bridge located along Blakeley Way is being repaired and is impassable....

A judge found probable cause to send a felony murder charge against a Mobile man to a grand jury.

Mobile, AL (NBC 15) - Mobile County leaders are taking steps to preserve a historic home tied to a trailblazing Black pastor and entrepreneur. During a recent County Commission work session, officials discussed plans to purchase the home at 1358 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue—once owned by C. First Johnson.

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from March 19, 2026 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile Police Department is investigating shots fired this week in a neighborhood, News 5 has learned. MPD officers responded to the report of gunfire around 7 a.m. March 17 in the 5800 block of Spyglass Drive. “Gunfire struck […]

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Four fatal collisions have resulted in six deaths over the past seven months since Amtrak’s Mardi Gras service returned to the Gulf Coast after a 20-year hiatus. Recently in Biloxi, a man walking across the train tracks was hit and killed. Visit Mobile, the City...

Arbitration over termite damage to Catholic institutions in Mobile, including its cathedral, has resulted in a $25.8 million award to the Archdiocese of Mobile. According to information provided by attorney Thomas Campbell, aka “Termite Tom,” proceedings conducted by the American Arbitration Association “found that...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A jury on Thursday convicted a man of felony murder and first-degree assault in a deadly shooting in 2024. It happened in April of that year in the 1600 block of Prairie Avenue. The jury determined that Grant Lavarus Myles, 25, of Mobile, was responsible for killing 26-year-old Jaylin Craig and...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Two armed men accosted a man on the night of Joe Cain Day, minutes after the man had left the area of an unrelated shooting, according to testimony Thursday. The shooting resulted in multiple injuries outside a nightclub on Dauphin Street just before 11 p.m. Mobile...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — One Escambia County woman is taking it upon herself to coordinate transporting the late three-year-old’s remains, abused to death by his uncle, for a proper burial with his mother in Honduras. Twenty-eight-year-old Samuel Maldonado Erazo faces a felony murder charge after Escambia...