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Rip current danger is high Monday

The National Weather Service is forecasting a 40 percent chance of rain Monday.

Thornton had honed her craft since she was a young girl, learning from her grandmother and a neighbor, and sewing her first wedding dress for hire at age 13.

Sunday's weather is hot with a chance of rain and high rip currents.

An aircraft crew with the U.S. Coast Guard's Aviation Training Center in Mobile helped medevac a passenger from a Carnival cruise ship on Saturday.

On Saturday, the Mobile Area Water & Sewer System was gearing up for the possibility of overflows after more than an estimated 280,000 gallons overflowed into area creeks.

The man accused of shooting his stepfather during a dispute at their house on Saturday morning was picked up after his mother called 911, according to the Mobile Police Department.

The University of South Alabama recognized about 1,400 students during a commencement ceremony Saturday. Arian Baher, 27, a nursing student was among those who will receive degrees.

Marilyn Foley, the wife of University of Mobile President Mark Foley, gave the university's commencement address Saturday morning at the Mobile Civic Center. "I made a simple suggestion that we need a female graduation speaker one day," she told the crowd.

Spring Hill College had to go indoors for the first time in 30 years for its spring commencement ceremony, held Saturday, May 10, in the campus recreation center instead of the traditional venue, the Avenue of the Oaks.