Posts by Erica Thomas

Over 100 people packed the Baldwin County Board of Education (BCBE) meeting Thursday night both in support and in opposition of Superintendent Eddie Tyler and the BOE.

It won’t be long before Amtrak resumes its route between Mobile and New Orleans. The new name for the route is "Amtrak Mardi Gras Service."

The owner of Strategy, Inc., a public relations firm contracted with Baldwin County Public Schools, has resigned.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will soon hear the civil rights voting case of Fair Fight, Inc. v. Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, Inc. (TTV).

Claude Strother is an avid outdoorsman. He hunts and fishes and has always kept a journal of his experiences.

Baldwin County Board of Education (BOE) District 1 member Ken Bradley raised concerns Tuesday about books he discovered in middle and high schools.

The Gulf Shores Police Department is asking for information to find the owners of an urn that washed ashore on April 17.

Libraries across the state rushed to remove sexually explicit material from their children and teen sections following new guidelines by the Alabama Public Library System in May 2024. The APLS threatened to withhold funding from any library that did not comply with new regulations.

Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson said recent violent acts are not acceptable and his staff, along with law enforcement, is taking action.

The Fairhope Public Library board voted not to move a controversial book from the teen section to the adult section after the state paused funding due to explicit material, meaning it will no longer receive state funding.

The Flora-Bama Lounge, Package and Oyster Bar saw over 10,200 people for Easter Sunday church service.

A judge dismissed motions to dismiss filed by several defendants in the case of former Mobile police chief Paul Prine, who is suing several city officials and others in connection with his 2024 termination.

Central Alabama Crimestoppers is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to a rapist.

Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi, of the Archdiocese of Mobile, released a statement early Monday following the death of Pope Francis.

Austal USA in Mobile began building a U.S. Navy towing, salvage and rescue ship. It will be the Navy’s seventh ship of its kind and it is named after an American hero.

This Easter weekend, a White Plains man spent much of his time giving back to the Lord by exhibiting his faith.

The Alabama Wildlife Federation (AWF) won the bid for the lease with an option to buy the 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center in Spanish Fort.

As temperatures warm up across Alabama, both venomous and non-venomous snakes are on the move. A professional snake remover in South Alabama learned a hard lesson himself and now he wants to warn others.

The federal government arrested eight people with immigration crimes as part of Operation Take Back America.

One of the three people killed Wednesday in a fatal boat crash on Lewis Smith Lake was a Snead council member and another was a fire district commissioner in Mississippi.

Shark attack survivor Lulu Gribbin, of Mountain Brook, traveled to Montgomery on Thursday to plead to state representatives to pass a bill that would create a shark attack alert system and she had a very powerful political figure by her side.

Protesters showed up on Thursday at the Foley Civic Center as U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) spoke at a Chamber of Commerce event.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency identified three boaters killed early Wednesday during a Major League Fishing tournament on Lewis Smith Lake.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is urging corporations to stop discriminatory DEI practices.

A Major League Fishing angler was among several involved in a crash early Wednesday on Lewis Smith Lake.

A new cruise line will be stopping by for excursion trips to Mobile next year.

The Alabama Policy Institute's new Alabama Department of Government Efficiency report found that Innovate Alabama awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to companies statewide. Some of those awards caused concern.