Calvert, AL

SEMMES, Ala. (WALA) - Semmes residents have a fun way to beat the summerlike heat that has settled over the region. The City of Semmes opened up its splash pad at Semmes Municipal Park on Saturday. The splash pad will offer residents a place for cool relief this summer. The...

Federal health officials have moved three northeast Alabama counties out of the COVID community low-risk category into a medium-risk level. The counties are Madison, Jackson and Limestone. The move comes after state health officials have watched the average number of statewide COVID cases grow from 100 a day around the...

Jacob Gunter, 36, was arrested Wednesday, May 18, on a theft charge as well as four counts of credit card fraud.

PRICHARD, Ala. (WALA) - The Black Voters Matter bus tour made a stop this morning in Prichard to get people energized to vote in the May 24 primary election. According to Black Voters Matter state organizer Ronald James, it doesn’t matter which side of the aisle you are on as long you get out and vote.

South Alabama earned the No. 5 seed and a first-round bye for the Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament, which begins Tuesday at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery. The defending champion Jaguars (31-22) face No. 4 Louisiana (33-21) at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the first day of double-elimination action. The Ragin’ Cajuns took two of three from USA during the regular season.

SARALAND, Ala. (WPMI) — A $40-million dollar sports complex could soon be a real thing in Saraland. The city unanimously voted to move forward with a roughly $50-thousand dollar feasibility study that will take roughly 12 weeks. The complex would be on Celeste Road, right next to Saraland Fire...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Prichard man who was about to be sentenced for a string of pharmacy burglaries and robberies told a federal judge on Thursday that he wants to take back his guilty plea. Reginald Jejuan Howell, 30, pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to possess with intent...

CHATOM, Ala. (WALA) - It’s a day that was several years in the making. “Normally it takes somebody 18 years to get a diploma. It took you 95,” said Former Washington County Superintendent Tim Savage. Clarence Carpenter was on his way to graduating from Millry High School when...

BAY MINETTE, Ala. (WPMI) — Baldwin County Courthouse in Bay Minette has been evacuated, by order of Fire Chief Mike Minchew, according to Baldwin County EMA. Chief Minchew tells NBC 15 the belt from an AC unit burnt off and filled the building with smoke. Four firetrucks and two...

UPDATE(5/19 10:31 a.m.): The Washington County inmate was recaptured Thursday morning around 6:30 a.m. in McIntosh. WCSO says he stole a van from Chatom last night and drove it to McIntosh, the van was recovered. Chatom Police are investigating the theft and the inmate is back in jail. UPDATE (5/18 9:47 p.m.): A high-ranking law […]

North Mobile County Food Park is looking forward to its pop-up farmers market. It all takes place on May 21, 2022 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Organizers say SNAP is accepted with double up bucks. Free vendor space is also available with registration. Be sure to visit 204 S. Wilson Avenue in Prichard this Saturday for family fun and more.

PRICHARD, Ala. (WPMI) — A judge granted the state’s motion to revoke Prichard Police Officer Markell Carter’s bond Wednesday. Carter was arrested in March on domestic violence charges and again in April in a separate incident with the same victim. Carter’s attorney Scott Hawk argued the victim...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A man who was one of the city’s “Most Wanted” before his capture last month appeared in federal court Wednesday on a gun charge. Mobile police arrested Trenteon Jeveon King at the Walmart on Rangeline Road after a Chickasaw police officer working as a loss-prevention officer at the store saw King, 22, concealing earbuds. Police had been searching for him for more than a month. He stands accused of shooting two people at the M&M Food Mart on U.S. 90.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A former Creola police officer appeared in federal court Wednesday to answer charges in connection with the beating an inmate in the city jail. A federal magistrate judge ordered Davis to pay a portion of the cost of his court-appointed lawyer and indicated that that she would set the case for an arraignment next week. The charge, deprivation of rights under color of law, comes as an “information,” a mechanism to bypass a grand jury and usually used when a defendant and prosecutors have worked out a plea agreement prior to indictment.

The man accused of burying a 2006 Hummer to collect insurance money was in court Tuesday afternoon for a preliminary hearing that turned into a mini-trial and an attack on the investigation into the case.

MOBILE, Ala. — Prison officials say a man convicted of murder in west Alabama more than a decade ago has been captured after escaping from a minimum-security corrections center near Mobile. A notice from the Department of Corrections says 31-year-old Jeffery Strugg was discovered missing from a community-based facility...

MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) - A family is now offering $30,000 to anyone who offers information that leads to missing man Russel Chestang’s whereabouts, according to the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office. The MCSO says Chestang was last seen in the early morning hours of May 28, 2021, at...