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Mobile

Seven Birmingham area high schools among best in country, Newsweek says

May 21, 2012

Schools in Mobile, Huntsville, Auburn and Madison all make the top 1,000

Baldwin students injured in bus crash

May 21, 2012

BAY MINETTE, Alabama — Four students were transported to a Bay Minette hospital this morning following after an SUV rear-ended a school bus on Ala. 59 at the entrance to Chandler’s Mobile Home Park near Stapleton, according to a press release by Baldwin County Public Schools

Bayou La Batre corruption trial starts with opening statements

May 21, 2012

MOBILE, Alabama — The Bayou La Batre corruption trial got under way with Mayor Stan Wright this morning.

Cuban man, at large for 3 years, pleads guilty to marijuana-growing charge

May 21, 2012

MOBILE, Alabama — A Cuban immigrant who accidentally was released from jail 3 years ago pleaded guilty last week to participating in a sophisticated marijuana-growing operation in Eight Mile.

Bankruptcy judge approves agreement to transfer Montrose window’s house to lawsuit victor

May 21, 2012

MOBILE, Alabama — A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge last week approved an agreement in which the mansion of a deceased entrepreneur from Baldwin County will be given to a company that won a $10.4 million lawsuit against him.

Bankruptcy judge approves agreement to transfer Montrose window’s house to lawsuit victor

May 21, 2012

MOBILE, Alabama — A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge last week approved an agreement in which the mansion of a deceased entrepreneur from Baldwin County will be given to a company that won a $10.4 million lawsuit against him.

Judge to hear allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in Stephen Nodine case (with poll)

May 21, 2012

A Baldwin County judge today will hear fresh pleas from former Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine’s attorneys to throw out the murder case against him or at least move the trial to another county.

Mobile gets brief but striking view of partial solar eclipse at sunset

May 20, 2012

A partial eclipse was briefly visible in greater Mobile in the last few minutes before sunset this evening.

Stray dogs maul woman in north Mobile County

May 20, 2012

A 49-year-old woman was severely injured this morning when a pack of stray dogs attacked her at a trailer park on Bohannon Road near Georgetown, the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said.

Judge sentences convicted ‘stateless’ Palestinian, but defendant may be undeportable

May 20, 2012

MOBILE, Alabama — A federal judge in Mobile last week sentenced Fayad Bassam Azzam to probation for marriage fraud and handed him over to immigration authorities for deportation proceedings.