MPD shares images of suspect in robbery at Navco Road parking lot
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Mobile Police Department has distributed two images from surveillance footage showing a robbery suspect and is asking for the public’s health identifying and finding the man shown. Police said that on Friday, Jan. 2, at about 3:25 p.m., the person in the images robbed...
Man convicted of 2022 Chickasaw park murder
MOBILE, Ala. (NBC 15) — A Mobile County jury has found Tre’Vion Collins-Smiley guilty of Murder and Robbery 1st, District Attorney Keith Blackwood announced Tuesday. On October 21, 2022, Triston Bohannon was shot and killed by Tre’Vion Collins-Smiley in broad daylight during a robbery in a public park in Chickasaw,...
Baldwin County man arrested in connection with Mobile homicide
Video above: Violent crime statistics MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile Police Department officers have identified the man they arrested in connection with a homicide on Forest Park Drive on Tuesday. 76-year-old James Odom, of Silverhill, was arrested by police on Jan. 6 and charged with murder. According to officials, a...
2 Gulf Coast cities ranked as top places to live in the nation, U.S....
Two Gulf Coast cities were named among the nation’s top places to live in a recent ranking by U.S. News & Report, underscoring continued growth in the region as tourism expands and newcomers move to communities along the I-10 corridor in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The publication evaluated 250...
Mobile couple fired 50 shots, chief says; wounded officer drove himself to hospital
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A police officer who suffered a gunshot wound while responding to a standoff in Midtown on Sunday did not wait for an ambulance, according to the city’s executive director of public safety. Curtis Graves said Tuesday that Lt. Lorenzo Matthews, a 26-year veteran of the...
Chick-fil-A offering new menu items, free food to celebrate 80 years
Lucky customers may receive the Golden Fan Cup design, and 3,000 people who receive the cup will win a year of free food.
Wilmer man accused in stabbing death of father pleads not guilty
A Wilmer man accused of stabbing his father in Mobile to death pleaded not guilty today in front of a judge.
Man pleads not guilty to murder in connection to Chickasaw shooting
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Chickasaw man accused of a deadly shooting in December has pleaded not guilty to murder. Boris Steele is accused of killing a 39-year-old man who was found near West Lee and Geronimo streets Dec. 23 in Chickasaw. A judge set a preliminary hearing for later...
Coden man once accused of forcing abducted woman to ‘marry’ him faces new charges
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Coden man accused in 2024 of abducting a woman and forcing her to “marry” him in a simulated ceremony was back in court Wednesday on new charges. A judge last year dismissed most of the charges from October 2024 against Roy Lee Clowder. The new charges from last month center on an incident in...
Alabama Shipyard Secures $16.8M Navy Contract for USNS John Ericsson Deactivation
Alabama Shipyard LLC of Mobile, Alabama, has been awarded a $16.84 million firm-fixed-price contract for a 98-day shipyard availability to support the deactivation of the Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS John Ericsson (T-AO 194). The contract includes a base scope of work plus three unexercised options that,...

















