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Semmes council votes to roll back police jurisdiction beginning Jan. 1
Semmes Mayor Brandon Van Hook said the city’s resources must be prioritized for those living in the city limits. (Call News file photo) By ARTHUR L. MACK SEMMES — The Semmes City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to roll back the city’s police jurisdiction to a half mile beyond its city limits. The new…
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 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 MoreSaraland’s K.J. Lacey blends instincts, mechanics and hard work to succeed
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Saraland sophomore K.J. Lacey’s physical artistry is what fans see but he knows no successful quarterback can rely on that alone. His mechanics, formed through an incessant desire to be great, give him distinct advantages, particularly his ability to throw effectively from different angles, shape his trajectories and having the footwork to…
Read MoreSaraland QB K.J. Lacey has the tools to be great and recruiters are noticing
By JIMMY WIGFIELD There is no truth to the rumor K.J. Lacey stood up in his crib while in the hospital nursery, scanned the room in seconds, gripped a cold baby bottle and ripped a perfect spiral over the hands of an onrushing doctor into a sink of warm water without creating a ripple. But…
Read MoreCoaches have to start planning now to stop Saraland’s Ryan Williams and K.J. Lacey, and even that may not be enough
By JIMMY WIGFIELD AUBURN — Imagine you are a high school football coach and you are taking an exam in which one of the questions is how to stop Saraland star Ryan Williams. Covering him with all 11 players is out. Committing pass interference on every ball thrown to him is out. Pleading for leniency…
Read MoreSaraland unanimously cleared by AHSAA board; Spartans continue in playoffs; Milner: ‘The good name of our high school is intact’
By WILLIE GRAY and JIMMY WIGFIELD Saraland High School was cleared of wrongdoing in the move of its star quarterback from Daphne by a unanimous vote of the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s Central Board Thursday. Saraland City Schools Board of Education attorney Nash Campbell said one central board member abstained at the…
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