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Nine students at Mobile County Training School were arrested by Mobile Police on Thursday after a fight in the school's courtyard during a power outage, according to Nancy Pierce, spokesperson for the Mobile County school system.

The daughter of a DUI victim talked Thursday about life without her “best friend.” Moments earlier, the man charged with her father’s death had been arraigned in District Court.

Even Rivet the bulldog couldn't upstage Mayor Sandy Stimpson at an Airbus presentation to 250 students in grades K-2 at UMS-Wright Preparatory School.

MOBILE, Alabama -- Movie magic being made in Mobile is not uncommon, especially recently. But in the 1970s, no one understood why Hollywood wanted to shoot a movie in Lower Alabama. Unemployment was high and morale was low. Brookley's empty...

In the pre-dawn darkness Thursday a Prichard man was booked into jail and charged with attempted murder. Police said he fired 23 shots into a car stopped at a traffic sign.

The Baldwin County school system has $12.7 million in capital improvement projects on the calendar, with most of the work planned for the summer.

Traffic in the southbound lanes of Interstate 65 were backed up Thursday afternoon. A driver hit a school bus, over corrected and was struck by an 18-wheeler, according to the Mobile Police Department.

The victim's mother and other relatives were in court wearing T-shirts with pictures of Frederick Williams on them, emblazoned with slogans such as “R.I.P. Fred” and “Justice for Fred,” and pleading with the judge for "no mercy" for the men who killed him.

"Over on First and Pine streets there was a crew over there doing some work and they nicked a gas line," Police Chief Clarence Crook said. "Any gas leak is severe but it's not so severe that we had to evacuate anybody."

The bill, which measures all of 11 lines, is the first one that Byrne has solo sponsored since taking office in January. It would repeal a a law mandating red snapper quotas overseen by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council.