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The University of South Alabama's new president, Tony G. Waldrop, is eager to reach out to community leaders and find new ways to raise the university's profile.

Deputies watched Wednesday as a driver failed to use a signal while weaving through traffic on Interstate 10 Eastbound. When they pulled the car over they found nearly 500 packets of Spice hidden under a jacket in the backseat, according to the Mobile County Sheriff's Office.

Danny Pylant, 57, of Spanish Fort, is charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Taylor Colby, 44, of Murfreesboro, Tenn.

The Mobile Bay Yacht Clubs host one of the largest single point-to-point sailboat races in North America every year. This weekend, the Dauphin Island Race celebrates 56 years of sailing with at least 160 boats registered.

A team of scientists exploring the Gulf of Mexico's sea floor recently uncovered a maritime artifact that's nearly 200 years old. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers aboard the ship Okeanos Explorer discovered a ship's chronometer on April 17 while exploring the seafloor 200 miles off Galveston, Texas. Scientists at sea and at shore were using underwater cameras to comb the remains of a shipwreck from the 1800s.

How can the University of South Alabama compete with the bigger-name universities in the state? How will the new president reach out to students? And what can be done about parking? USA's new President, Tony G. Waldrop, has a discussion with USA students about campus issues.

Deputies jailed a man Thursday, more than one year after a woman claimed her now-ex-husband threatened to smother their 6-month-old child if she refused to go back to him, according to records from Mobile County Metro Jail.

A woman accused of plotting with her boyfriend to kill her husband allegedly shopped the murder around, investigators say.

In the early morning darkness Thursday, two men broke into a home and pistol-whipped a man during an armed robbery, according to the Mobile Police Department.

A 12-year-old Michigan girl is recovering from a head injury she sustained Wednesday after hitting a channel marker while tubing on one of the city's back bays.