Mobile AL

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A father and son are accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly Mobile woman. Investigators say 54-year-old Charles Cook and his son, 30-year-old Dillon Cook, own a local lawn care company and worked for the victim. Court documents show The Cooks took...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Mississippi man has been sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to killing a Mobile County man while driving under the influence. According to the District Attorney’s Office, 34-year-old Clayton Geter was booked into metro today to serve his sentence. In 2022, Geter crashed...

LOXLEY, Ala. (WKRG) — What started as a breakup ended with an arrest when a Baldwin County woman was accused of stalking her ex-boyfriend by putting a tracking device on his car. Investigators with the Loxley Police Department say 42-year-old Sue Bliss of Fairhope placed a magnetic tracking device on her...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The FBI’s Mobile Division made multiple arrests and recovered a child during a recent operation, News 5 has learned. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that since Aug. 18, they have arrested 18 people in the country who were here illegally and recovered one “unaccompanied...

An Alabama church that once was among the largest in the Southern Baptist Convention is selling its 19-acre property and downsizing. The property of Dauphin Way Baptist Church in Mobile is now listed for sale for $28.5 million. Current pastor Lee Merck confirmed to numerous media outlets the sale is...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile police say a second man has been arrested in connection with an Aug. 10 shooting in Downtown Mobile that injured two people. According to an MPD news release, on Tuesday, Aug. 19, at about 10:46 p.m., 23-year-old Robert Kyles of Irvington turned himself in to Metro Jail. He was charged […]

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The former Director of the Mobile Housing Authority spoke publicly for the first time since being fired. Michael Pierce was let go in early July after complaints were filed about housing conditions, as the Housing Authority closed a number of housing projects over the last five years Pierce now...

MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — First responders in Creola came upon a strange sight: a car submerged in the water! According to a Facebook post from the Creola Fire Department, the team assisted the Creola Police Department in responding to a vehicle in a body of water on the side of Highway 43. INCIDENT LOCATION: […]

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - An honorary street renaming took place in Mobile today, in honor of a public figure who served the community for several decades. At the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Cuba Street, Councilman William Carroll and Franklin Primary Health Center invited the public to come out and honor the...

MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — This week marks one year since the “funeral” for the Mobile Civic Center, where Mayor Stimpson knocked over the Civic Center sign to signify the beginning of demolition. According to an update from the city, construction on the new arena continues to move...