Mobile AL

MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — According to Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, it was announced that the new Downtown Mobile International Airport construction is back on budget. Stimpson told Mobile City Council members that MAA Director Andy Wilson, during a Mobile Airport Authority meeting Tuesday morning, that the new opening...

MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — A new hotel could soon be coming to downtown Mobile. A developer is looking to get the proposed site rezoned by the city's planning commission next month. Right now, the property on St. Francis Street is a paid parking lot and its current zoning allows...

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — Jaquail Williams, 22, identified by Daphne police last week as the man who fired into a Wal-Mart, has turned himself into police. After surveillance footage of the incident was released and Williams was identified on July 17, Daphne police urged the man to turn himself in. Daphne Police...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A suspect was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon after a high-speed chase in Mobile. The chase went from I-65 to I-165 before ending near Chin Street when the suspect’s car hit a mailbox. The suspect bailed out and ran off, with officers giving chase. An...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile man has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for felon in possession of a firearm. According to a United States Department of Justice news release, 57-year-old Edward Cordell Burks Jr. was sentenced to 92 months for possession of a firearm as a previously convicted...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile’s Waterfront Rescue Mission helps those without a home every day. With scorching temperatures sweeping South Alabama, a place for them to cool down is essential. “The biggest thing is AC,” Mobile Waterfront Rescue Mission’s Regional Director of Development and Public Relations Eric...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - UPDATE: The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency has provided an update regarding charges with the driver. Per ALEA, “Troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Highway Patrol Division do not anticipate an arrest as a result of this crash and have no pending criminal charges.”

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Journal has named Callaghan’s Irish Social Club the best dive bar in America. Callaghan’s, a neighborhood bar in the Mobile Oakleigh Garden District, was bought by current owner J.T. Thompson in 2002. Since then, the bar has become a city spotlight featuring now headlining artists who got...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Mobile woman, who’s been in and out of Metro jail for most of her adult life, is locked up again. Karlissa Lofton, 32, is now accused of a cutting a woman during an argument. Mobile Police say the crime happened July 11 in the...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Yesterday evening, citizens around Mobile reported smelling a “putrid smell” outside. “I got home, and the smell was putrid. It was this like really nasty smell when you’re outside, and I just assume someone maybe sprayed something or an animal may have died,” Brandt Cannon, who was in West...