GULF SHORES, Ala. — Alabama’s beaches have reopened, but the state’s coast is hardly recovered from the effects of Hurricane Sally last month. Visitors still have limited options for getting to the sand because so many boardwalks and beach entry points were damaged. Residents in hard-hit Baldwin County are complaining about the response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Both…
This morning, the National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating a deadly plane crash in Baldwin County. Loxley Fire Chief Tony Lovell confirms two people died in a single-engine plane crash Tuesday night on Interstate 10 near Styx River. The U.S. Coast Guard said local air traffic control received a distress call about an aircraft going down. A Coast Guard…
Jonathan Andrew Gibson Authorities say a missing 14-year-old Florida girl has been rescued from a Louisiana motel, where police say she was being held captive by an Baldwin County (Ala.) man. 30-year-old Jonathan Andrew Gibson, now charged with kidnapping and rape, was jailed without bond in Alexandria, Louisiana, as of Thursday. A police statement says a tip led them to…
According to a statement released by Alabama Department of Public Health, two people have been attacked by foxes believed to be carrying rabies in Baldwin County within the last week. One of those cases occurred on July 6th, when a fox attacked a young teen and her dog, before running off. The second incident happened the day after, when a…
An investigator says the charter bus involved in a fatal crash in Alabama was new and making only its second trip. Pete Kotowski of the National Transportation Safety Board briefed the media on the early stages of the investigation Wednesday. Authorities say bus driver Harry Caligone was the only person to die in the crash, which happened early Tuesday on…
An Alabama congressman says the Obama administration is dropping a plan to possibly house migrant children in Baldwin County and Montgomery. Rep. Bradley Bryne issued a statement Thursday saying he’s learned the Department of Health and Human Services won’t pursue two rural, military airfields in Baldwin County as shelters for children who are in the country without their parents. An…
The Baldwin County Commission has told Gov. Robert Bentley that he must remove a new wall just constructed as part of the re-building of the so-called “Governor’s Mansion at the Beach.” The commission says the wall blocks public access to the beach and intrudes on county right-of-way. The governor last year diverted $1.8 million from an early partial settlement of…
