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Days after the Mobile County-City Youth Council expressed concerns about e-cigarettes and hookahs, some Mobile City Council members are interested in tightening regulations. Some of the toughest anti-smoking laws in Alabama are in Troy, which outlaw hookah smoking indoors.

Twenty-two residents of Safe Harbor Estates ultimately filed lawsuits in 2012, accusing the defendants of charging unfair fees and failing to maintain adequate living conditions in the houses.

Danny Pylant, 57, of Spanish Fort, is charged with criminally negligent homicide in the March 29 death of Taylor Colby, 44, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., in Orange Beach.

Leonard Starke, 56, of Summerdale, is suspected of being the driver of a GMC pickup that hit William Sikora, 23, on Dec. 7 in Robertsdale.

Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran and the man who aims to replace him discussed gun laws, safety checkpoints and more during an appearance before AL.com/Press-Register reporters and editors Thursday.

It will be warm and sunny in south Alabama and along the Gulf Coast today

The National Weather Service forecasts mostly sunny skies with a high near 75 degrees Friday.

A grand jury will hear the case against Justin Lott, 29, of Montgomery, who is charged in the March 21 death of University of Oklahoma student Kasey Waychoff, 19.

The "Underwater Forest" group has set up a Kickstarter.com page to gather up to $15,000 in pledges needed to finish a project about an underwater forest about 15 miles away from Gulf Shores.

“I believe it was intentional,” Councilman John Lake said. “For what reasons, I don’t know. I asked the police department to investigate it as an act of vandalism. I think that’s what it was and it should’ve been treated like that in the first place. You know I got ridiculed because I brought it up with everybody and I’m actually saddened to know that my worst fears were true.