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ESPN announces it will nationally televise Saraland-Lipscomb game featuring elite recruits
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Proving it belongs among the nation’s elite high school football programs and setting the stage to win a second straight state championship aren’t priorities for Saraland coach Jeff Kelly and his players, although both could happen in the Aug. 25 season opener against Lipscomb Academy. ESPN announced Wednesday it will nationally televise…
Read MoreAlabama commitment Sterling Dixon transferring from Mobile Christian, considering IMG Academy, his father says
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Four-star linebacker and Alabama commitment Sterling Dixon shocked his Mobile Christian coaches and teammates after a Monday morning workout by announcing he is transferring for his senior season. Dixon’s father, Sterling Dixon Sr., told the Call News the family is talking to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., and also considering some bigger…
Read MoreMobile now Alabama’s second-largest city after annexation vote succeeds
By ARTHUR L. MACK Three of four areas targeted for annexation by the City of Mobile voted on Tuesday to become part of what is now Alabama’s second-largest city. The Cottage Hill Corridor, King’s Branch and Orchard Estates areas voted to be annexed while the Airport Boulevard area voted against joining the city. As…
Read MorePadres raving about Tucker Musgrove’s arsenal of talent after drafting University of Mobile star
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Semmes’ Tucker Musgrove arrived at the University of Mobile with a fastball that didn’t match his body. But when his body caught up, so did the professional baseball scouts. Musgrove (6-3, 185) — a junior five-tool prospect who hit .401 in the last two years of his college career and whose fastball…
Read MoreGautier star receiver Dillon Alfred transferring to Saraland
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Four-star wide junior receiver Dillon Alfred announced on social media Wednesday his intent to transfer from Gautier (Miss.) to Saraland, deepening the defending state champion Spartans’ elite athleticism at the skill positions. Alfred (5-10, 170) — already considered the No. 14 prospect in Alabama in the On3 composite rankings — has been…
Read MoreChickasaw Public Safety Director Keith Miller fired by city council
By EMMETT BURNETT Chickasaw Public Safety Director Keith Miller was fired Tuesday night by the city council after a hearing in a three-hour executive session which was closed to the public. After emerging from the closed-door session, the council publicly voted 4-1 to remove Miller, with many in the packed chambers shouting their disapproval…
Read MoreAfricatown Heritage House museum opens to honor the story of slaves
By ARTHUR L. MACK A longtime Africatown dream became reality Friday as dignitaries and descendants of slaves brought to Mobile on board the Clotilda gathered for the dedication of the Africatown Heritage House. The Heritage House, which officially opens Saturday, contains artifacts from the Clotilda, the ship that brought 110 Africans from the west African…
Read MoreSale of Ladd-Peebles Stadium hits snag as Mobile councilmembers halt meeting
By ARTHUR L. MACK Three Mobile City Councilmembers stopped Wednesday’s meeting before it got started over dissatisfaction of a proposed sale of Ladd-Peebles Stadium to the Mobile County Public School System. Councilmembers Cory Penn and William Carroll, along with Council President C.J. Small, abstained from voting to pass the agenda, causing the meeting to be…
Read MoreFamily of man who was tased and later died want Mobile police to release bodycam footage
By ARTHUR L. MACK The family of a Mobile man who was tased by Mobile police and later died is demanding the release of bodycam footage. On July 2 at 9:46 p.m., Mobile police responded to a residential burglary in progress at Plantation Mobile Home Park at 5413 Carol Plantation Road in Theodore and attempted…
Read MoreMorgan Davis, the best ever from Mobile, could be in the Olympics one day
I told people earlier in the year and I’ll say it again — Saraland’s Morgan Davis is the most famous female track and field athlete to come out of the Mobile area. She captured 56 individual titles during their high school career and set records that may take years, or even decades, to break. …
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