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In what has been called a phenomenal bust in the fight to eradicate a drug considered as destructive as crack cocaine once was, Mobile police have seized more than 20,000 packets of synthetic marijuana, or Spice, from a west Mobile storage facility.

The body of Zachary Alston, 20, was found Sunday in Mobile.

The Mobile City Council will vote Tuesday whether to send to the Planning Commission a host of recommendations for changes to the city's zoning ordinance regulating oil storage tanks.

The Baldwin County school system will hold a national Digital Renaissance Summit June 10-12.

More than 20,000 packets of synthetic marijuana, or Spice, valued at more than $600,000 won’t make it to the streets after a “significant arrest” by Mobile police.

Construction of the Hangout Music Festival shifted into high gear Monday and to accommodate the site and an influx of some 40,000 people, the city is preparing to implement its traffic flow and road and beach closure plan.

With votes coming from 24 states and Puerto Rico, AL.com readers overwhelming favor a ‘yes’ vote by the City Council tonight to approve a five-year extension to the Hangout Music Festival’s special events permit.

As one of a half-dozen Alabama municipalities selected to participate in the 2013 Alabama Communities of Excellence program, Fairhope is in need of public's help in an effort to form a leadership development program and prepare an up-to-date strategic plan as part of the second phase of a three-phase approach.

Deon Johnson, 20, is charged with first-degree rape. He is suspected of raping a 16-year-old girl in a church parking lot in Daphne in 2011.

U.S. drone strike kills 6 Monday in Yemen