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During a trial this week, one man charged with killing the young mother of two will try to convince a jury that his co-defendant, Isaac “Ike” Washington, killed her with a shotgun blast to the head.

A Grand Bay man died late Friday after the car he was driving struck a tree, overturned and struck a parked vehicle, Alabama State Troopers said on Monday.

Councilwoman Bess Rich said she supports a dome structure over the coal stock piles at the proposed Blue Creek Coal Terminal. Birmingham-based Walter Energy, the parent company for Blue Creek, says the dome would be expensive. The suggestion comes at a time when Walter Energy is facing some financial difficulties amid declining commodity prices.

For two months police have been searching for a man who failed to register his address despite pleading guilty to attempting to rape a 7-year-old girl, according to the Mobile Police Department.

Richardson responds to an email from Chris Clarke that said he was "useless and ignorant" with a debate challenge Saturday at Bienville Square. Clarke later apologized.

An armed man and two accomplices attempted to rob another man in a Taco Bell drive-thru on Saturday evening, according to the Mobile Police Department. The armed man beat the victim with a gun and later fired three shots at his fleeing car, police said.

Jermaine Cungious, 18, of Bay Minette, is accused of shooting of Tommie Jackson, 18, of Spanish Fort, at the beach in Gulf Shores last week, police said.

Here are some questions and answers about the ACT suite of K-12 standardized tests, courtesy of Rena Philips, supervisor of marketing and education partnerships with the Mobile County school system.

Now that Alabama has become the first state in the nation to adopt the ACT suite of K-12 standardized tests, the Mobile County school system is playing a prominent role: It's one of the first districts to administer all of its tests online.

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