 01/23/10 DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. -- With 37-degree water pouring into the bay from the Mobile River during January's big chill, a small, critically endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle washed ashore on Dauphin Island.
 01/23/10 Traffic on northbound Alabama 193 is snarled from the center of the island well onto the Mobile County mainland this afternon, Dauphin Island police reported.
 01/12/10 It took a collision of perfect events to beat Cumberland Valley senior defensive back Trevor Harman.
 12/28/09 Police say it took three masked men about a minute to steal an ATM from a Cheveron station on Dauphin Island Parkway, but that was not their first stop.
 12/21/09 With the integrity of Dauphin Island under threat from increasingly intense coastal storms, U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-AL, has secured $1.5 million to study the feasibility of stabilizing the island so that it can continue to serve as a hurricane buffer.
 12/14/09 MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - The Alabama Department of Public Health has closed all shellfish growing waters in Mobile and Baldwin Counties. Areas I, II, III and IV are closed. This includes Cedar Point,
 12/07/09 The Coast Guard is assisting local agencies in searching for two missing men. Updated 2:00pm more
 12/02/09 Police say a woman was shot to death at an adult group home on Quail Run Drive in Theodore.
 12/02/09 Water, sand, and debris covered the roads Wednesday morning on Dauphin Island's west end.
 12/02/09 Demetrius Thomas charged with murder in the shooting death of the mother of four children.
 12/01/09 Six school clinics in Mobile County were postponed because the Alabama Department of Public Health sent out permission paperwork in only two languages: English and Spanish. The six schools "had too many different languages," said Wanda Hannon, supervisor of health and human services for the school system, which is Alabama's largest.
 11/30/09 Beginning Tuesday, kindergarten through third-grade students in Alabama will be offered the nasal mist form of the swine flu vaccine. Four of those schools will be in Mobile County.
 11/25/09 U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Bohdan Futey approved the settlement, requiring the federal government to pay $1.44 million and Alabama's government to pay another $60,000. In exchange, property owners release the federal and state governments from any past or future claims of damage to their property from the dredging, according to court records.
 11/25/09 MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A federal judge has approved a settlement of a nearly decade-old lawsuit over erosion on Dauphin Island. The settlement was approved Tuesday by U.S Court of Federal Claims Judge Bohdan Futey.
 11/24/09 DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. -- A federal judge today approved a settlement over erosion on Dauphin Island that grants property owners $1.5 million for rebuilding beaches.
 11/23/09 Dauphin Island residents are no strangers to power outages. A big storm could take power out for days. Monday there was no storm, but folks got it back by the end of the day. It's all part of a project to improve electrical service to the Island.
 11/23/09 The lights are back on at Dauphin Island. Residents there had no power Monday, not because of a storm but because of a major upgrade.
 11/22/09 Dauphin Island will have a power outage for about eight hours on Monday for scheduled work on electrical lines, authorities said.
 11/22/09 Dauphin Island residents and business owners will be in the dark Monday.
 11/21/09 BOAZ -- The Etowah County Sheriff's Office says searchers have found a body they believe to be a Boaz man who disappeared two weeks ago. |