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Hot and dry this weekend, Sweltering temperatures return next week
Weekend Outlook: An area of high pressure will remain northeast of Alabama. We will have northeast winds over us, keeping the humidity at low levels. Saturday and Sunday will be mostly sunny, hot, and not humid for late August. High temperatures will climb into the lower to middle 90s each day. Next Week’s Outlook: A […]
Alabama Champion: The Keystone Club, A Safe Space
The Keystone Club is a recovery clubhouse. It is a place where those recovering from drug and alcohol addiction can come to socialize, grab a cup of coffee, and have an encouraging conversation. Crystal Holcomb is one of the founders. She tells me it is a safe place for like-minded...
Alabama patients may see medical debt wiped out
Close to two hundred thousand people in Alabama, and two other States could see over $300 million dollars in medical debt disappear. A New Orleans-based system of hospitals and clinics is working with a New York nonprofit to wipe out their doctor bills. The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reports that...
Alabama Teacher Under Fire After Saying Kids Stink
The teacher, who ask to remain anonymous, said “Parents make sure your middle school kids take a shower before they come to school. They start stinking about age 11 and they don’t realize it. I walk into my classroom and it’s like getting hit in the nose with a baseball bat of ass!”
Column: The sights, smells of Friday night lights are back
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CORRECTION: This column’s headline was corrected. Waiting in line to go into the Flomaton-Clarke County football game, one could tell that Chris was excited. Thursday marked the beginning of high school football for teams in Escambia County. T.R. Miller also debuted its 2024...
Tyrenda Williams-Reed, 1st Black woman to win America’s Junior Miss, has died
Tyrenda Williams-Reed, who represented Alabama in the America’ Junior Miss program in 1997 and became the first Black woman to win the competition, has died, according to the Distinguished Young Woman program and other sources. America’s Junior Miss, a scholarship competition based in Mobile, became Distinguished Young Women in...
Man accused of shooting into occupied vehicle
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Saraland man is facing several charges after the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said he shot into an occupied vehicle. Twenty-nine-year-old Hunter Ray Walker was booked into the Mobile County Jail early Friday morning. The MCSO was called out to Lockwood Drive and Old Pascagoula...
MPD: Fleeing vehicle hits 2 other vehicles
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A high-speed chase Thursday night resulted in several other vehicles being hit, according to the Mobile Police Department. The pursuit began around 7:48 p.m. when an officer spotted a vehicle speeding on Pleasant Valley Road and tried to initiate a traffic stop. However, the driver refused to stop and led police on a short chase, MPD said.
Goodloe follows family path to emergency medicine
“When my wife and I moved to Birmingham for my residency, we knew that we would ultimately return to Mobile,” Travis Goodloe III, M.D., said. “We are both lifelong Mobilians, and this is the community where I have always wanted the impact of my career as a physician to be, just like my grandfather.
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