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Rainfall amounts between 2 and 3 inches per hour are likely with heavier bands coming through Friday afternoon.

The True Supporters for Prichard Water say they are committed to battling the dissolution of the Water Board beyond Tuesday's referendum if the matter winds up in the legal system.

City workers placed plywood over the entrances of a house on Partridge Street after officers descended on the home, armed with their third drug-related search warrant in two months, on Thursday.

Stephen Merry, David Petersen and Yaman Sencan were convicted on 20 different counts each during a jury trial in December and faced a max of 20 years in prison. But, as was anticipated, Steele gave them a lesser sentence while still ordering them to pay $2,891,898 back.

While $25,000 was budgeted this year to renovate the restroom at the city's popular municipal pier, the work is not moving fast enough for some officials and complaints are rolling in.

Repairs to the General W.K. Wilson Bridge may stretch on for months, according to ALDOT.

Another hurricane season is here. For some who've never experienced a hurricane, the mention of the season beginning stirs concern and a lot of questions.

The letter from U.S. Reps. Bradley Byrne, R-Mobile, and Steven Palazzo, R-Biloxi, comes on the heels of revelations that some veterans in Arizona died while waiting for care at a VA facility in Phoenix.

Richardson said that he won't back down in his quest to put former Mayor Sam Jones onto the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System's board of directors. However, the request will not be reconsidered on Tuesday despite a TV poll showing that a majority of Mobilians questioned, support having the former mayor on the MAWSS board.

State Rep. Chad Fincher, R-Semmes, who sponsored the Alabama Accountability Act in the state House, said Thursday that he was "very disappointed, but not surprised" by a judge's ruling that the act was unconstitutional, and expressed confidence that the ruling would not stand.