Shoe Carnival will operate all of Shoe Station’s 21 stores, including the ones in Montgomery and Prattville, under the Shoe Station name and will continue to have an online presence under the current website.
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Nearly two years after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Carnival Cruise Lines is restarting operations in Mobile. Carnival said that all 22 of its U.S.-based ships will be back in operation by March 2022, with the Carnival Sensation sailing out of Mobile on March 5, the first Saturday of the month. Mayor Sandy Stimpson, in…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The mayors of Alabama’s 10 largest cities are holding two days of meetings in the capital to discuss legislative priorities and other issues. A statement from the city of Montgomery says Mayor Steven Reed will play host for the gathering, which began Sunday and continues Monday. The mayors of Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, Tuscaloosa, Hoover, Auburn, Dothan,…
This undated photo provided by the Mobile, Ala., Police Department shows Hezekiah Kaniel Belfon. On Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, Mobile police said they have five warrants accusing Belfon of attempted murder. (Mobile Police Department via AP) MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Police have released the name of a third man wanted in a shooting that wounded two adults and three teenagers…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. government ordered the destruction of a $15,000 shipment of pineapples from Costa Rica after agriculture inspectors in Mississippi found butterfly larvae that they said could be harmful. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release Monday that inspectors from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service found the…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) – Three Mississippi cities and Birmingham, Alabama have been awarded grants to improve their train stations ahead of the planned return of Amtrak service to the Gulf Coast. The Biloxi Sun Herald reports that Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, and Pascagoula received a little more than $700,000 total, and another $250,000 went to Birmingham. The newspaper…
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – Police are investigating the slaying of a teenage boy found lying in the road after he was shot in south Alabama. New outlets report that Mobile police were called Monday night about the shooting. Officer Katrina Frazier says officers arrived to find a 16-year-old boy lying in the road. He was pronounced dead at the scene….
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Police in Mobile say child abuse by a mother and her boyfriend killed a three-year-old boy. Tatanya Edwards turned herself in on Friday and Abraham Hatch turned himself in on Sunday, Mobile police charge Edwards with felony murder and Hatch with capital murder. Both remain jailed Monday. The boy died Wednesday in a Mobile hospital after…
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A gun went off in an Alabama church as a man tried to disarm a woman, wounding them both, police said. Linda Walker entered the sanctuary of Amity Baptist Church in Mobile with a gun after services ended Sunday, Officer Katrina H. Frazier says. Walker, 58, aimed the weapon at the unidentified man and another person,…
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – A Mobile police officer was arrested on a charge of domestic violence after his wife accused him of choking her during a dispute over another woman. Mobile police say Officer Daniel Marlin was placed on leave from the department until the case is resolved. A police statement said Marlin was arrested Wednesday, the same day his…
