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Teresa Taylor will sign copies of her book, "Night Flight: The Courage and Calling of a Coast Guard Pilot," this Saturday at LifeWay Christian Bookstore.

Late on Monday night, a woman was startled awake by the sound of someone forcing open her front door. The stranger fled after she armed herself with a baseball bat, according to the Mobile Police Department.

The Murphy High School Alumni Association will hold its 13th annual Hall of Fame Induction on Sunday, April 27, at 2 p.m. in the school's cafeteria.

Despite an appeal pending before the Alabama Supreme Court, the city has been forced through a Baldwin County Circuit Court order to begin repairing a stormwater drainage system that has caused severe bluff erosion in the Patrician Drive neighborhood.

Live updates during the Tuesday, April 22, 2014, Mobile City Council meeting.

There is a chance you could see some showers this afternoon in South Alabama and along the Gulf Coast

Walter Energy recently announced 700 layoffs to its Canadian workers amid slumping coal prices. The company is seeking planning approval from the Mobile City Council Tuesday for the Blue Creek Coal Terminal project.

The National Weather Service forecasts partly sunny skies with a high near 78 degrees.

C-SPAN does Mobile

Readers were asked if a Pennsylvania school should have punished a student for asking Miss America to the prom during a school assembly even though he had been not do so.