BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. A driver heading down Interstate 10 on Monday morning, June 1st, 2026, driving toward Florida noticed a vehicle on the side of the road, and outside of the vehicle lying on the highway, there was a person.
The driver called 911 and told a Baldwin County Communications Center dispatcher that the person was not moving and looked to be in distress.
The Styx River Volunteer Fire Department, Medstar and law enforcement were immediately dispatched to the area near mile marker 52 where firefighters found a man unconscious and possibly having a heart attack and in need of immediate care. Firefighters swiftly began rendering aid.
That person was transported by ambulance to area hospital.
Had the good Samaritan not been observant or just decided to continue his driving without calling 911, the person may not have had a chance of survival.
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LOXLEY, Ala. A serious motor vehicle collision occurred on Monday morning, June 1st, 2026, and injured several people at around 7:15 a.m.
Calls to 911 reported a multi-vehicle wreck at US 90 near County Road 66 and reported that the roadway was blocked.
Loxley Police and the fire department responded to the scene and authorities also called for three ambulances to respond.
Police reported that one person had critical injuries and a medical helicopter was dispatched to the scene and transported the person to an area trauma center.
Loxley police are currently investigating the cause of the collision.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Friday to close 15 churches across the state.
“These decisions are never made lightly,” said Bishop Jonathan Holston, who oversees all United Methodist churches in Alabama.
Some say that they’re shocked while others acknowledged that membership has been dwindling for years.
“They represented seasons of faithful ministry,” Holston said. “They’ve come to a close, and they call us to honor the witness of congregations who served their communities with grace and courage and have done this over generations.”
The closures were approved during the church’s annual conference. The resolution includes not only the formal closing of churches but also decisions regarding the stewardship and future disposition of their properties.
“These decisions are never made lightly,” said Bishop L. Jonathan Holston, addressing the conference. “They represent seasons of faithful ministry that have come to a close. We receive this report with gratitude for what’s been and with a shared responsibility to steward these legacies well”.
The affected congregations span all four districts of the North Alabama Conference:
East District: Jubilee, Oak Grove, Childersburg, Rehoboth, Trinity
Mid-Central District: Christ Central, Langston, Mount Oak, Tucker’s Chapel
North District: Courtland, Hollywood, Isom’s Chapel, Moulton First, The Table
West District: Cahawba, Cottondale, Discovery, Restoration Mission, Walker Chapel, Woodstock
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DAPHNE, Ala. A FedEx delivery driver is now accused of multiple thefts after police were called into to investigate packages that were never delivered.
The packages, originally processed through the Theodore Walmart Distribution Center, never made it to their destinations.
Daphne Police were notified by loss prevention that some of those packages which were shipped to the local store never arrived and after an internal investigation, it appeared that the merchandise was shipped to the store but was never delivered.
Chief Gulsby said that many items that were missing were electronics, including Apple iPhones, watches and other electronics that had a combined value of more than $50,000.
Police working with security personnel added some track devices to some of the merchandise and discovered that some items were being opened and not delivered and police were able to determine that Jeremy Eaton, 39, contracted employee FedEx employee was responsible for these thefts.
Eaton, from Mobile, is now charged with first-degree theft.
Once Daphne police were notified that another theft had occurred, they were able to pinpoint his location, and police conducted a traffic stop on him near Walmart on US 98.
“The detective stopped him and recovered three Apple watches from his personal backpack,” said Gulsby.
Currently, the investigation is continuing.
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MOBILE, AL. A crash involving a Mount Vernon man who was driving recklessly and was speeding more than 100 miles per hour before killing a woman on Airport Boulevard earlier this month has now been charged with Manslaughter.
The crash killed 54-year-old Stacey Neese, who was on her way to work. Neese’s brother, Jake May, said he remembers Stacey as someone who brought joy to everyone around her.
“She always smiles, no matter what she was going through,” May said. “She always was smiling. She had a glow on her like no other, I promise you that.”
According to Mobile Police, 32-year-old Clifton Land IV was driving 119 miles per hour in a 45-mph zone when his Dodge Charger crashed into Neese’s vehicle.
At the time of the violent wreck, Neese was attempting to enter westbound traffic on Airport Boulevard near Willow Brook Run East when Land collided with her vehicle, trapping her inside her vehicle and taking her life.
Police arrested Land on Thursday and charged him with manslaughter.
“Something’s got to be done about reckless driving, speeding in Mobile,” said May.
Now, as the family grieves, May said they hope Neese’s death brings more awareness to reckless driving in Mobile.
Police did not report that Land was under the influence at the time of the fatal wreck.
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MOBILE, AL. A former Mobile County deputy sheriff who has already been arrested and fired from his job is once again facing more charges.
Daniel Holifield, a former sergeant with the Mobile sheriff’s office now faces both state and federal charges for allegedly using his position to bank hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra cash.
According to authorities, he is now facing 16 state charges.
And he was served three more warrants for Theft by Deception charges.
Holifield is accused of racking up over $100,000 in overtime pay, and Friday morning, District Attorney Keith Blackwood revealed where Holifield allegedly was when he got some of those hours.
“There were some cases where he was claiming to be on duty while he was actually off duty at a casino in Mississippi,” Blackwood said.
Another count alleged Holifield was double-billing vendors and pocketing the extra money.
Sadly, the one time law enforcement officer continued to pocket ill-gotten cash because of a lack of checks and balances said Sheriff Burch.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that if this is proven to a jury, that this is reprehensible conduct; this is taxpayer dollars, this is private company dollars, and he’s alleged to have stolen this over a period of time,” Blackwood said.
Holifield is also accused of submitting insurance claims for MCSO vehicles and then depositing that money into his personal account.
Blackwood said Holifield has previously been accused of other cases of insurance fraud as well.
Holifield was indicted in August 2025 on 13 counts of theft of property and possession of forged instruments after he allegedly used official MCSO lettering and forged the signatures of three co-workers to purchase 10 cars.
Both Burch and Blackwood said that to have committed the crimes he’s alleged to have committed, Holifield would have had to clear every check and balance in place.
Authorities said that besides the 16 state charges, Holifield is facing a 14-charge federal indictment for bank fraud, money laundering and tax evasion.
Potential, if found guilty on all charges, Holifield could be facing life in prison.
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Each year, dozens of people die while visiting our national parks and even more die in our local state parks.
The lure of the outdoors, with beautiful mountain views, vast open ranges, seashores, lakes, and beautiful forests for camping, hiking and just being still, our parks offer something for everyone.
But they can also be dangerous including the many wild animals, venomous snakes, and the dangers of climbing, swimming, and so many pitfalls of being outdoors.
The US Park Service reported that in 2025, more than 323 million recreational visitors entered our national parks, but unfortunately, many visitors didn’t make it out alive.
The National Park Service reported that over 200 deaths were reported across the park system with a wide array of causes.
In 2024, there were 190 deaths in our national parks.
There were medical emergencies that caused deaths, vehicle accidents, some involving animals, drowning, and undetermined deaths that topped the list.
In recent years, there have also been homicides and suicides in the parks.
In August, a 24-year-old man died after the vehicle he was driving struck a moose in Denali National Park.
A motorcyclist died on the Blue Ridge Parkway, the most visited national site in 2025, after hitting a deer.
Some visitors have died from natural causes, heart attacks and from falling down from high locations including Denali,
In Denali, a 41-year-old ski mountaineer was found dead after falling 3,000 feet from a climbing route along Mount McKinley. A 42-year-old fell from a “steep, off-trail climbing route” along Mount Gould in Glacier National Park. An 18-year-old died after slipping and falling down a 50-foot waterfall in Olympic National Park.
But, according to the NPS, Lake Mead National Recreation Area saw the most reported deaths in 2025 at 18. The park has recorded roughly 380 deaths since 2007, NPS shows. That’s the most across any national park, and about 150 more than Grand Canyon National Park’s 227.
The NPS sites with the highest number of recorded deaths in 2025 were:
Lake Mead: 18
Blue Ridge Parkway: 13
Natchez Trace Parkway: 11
Great Smoky Mountains: 10
Yosemite: 9
Other national parks that recorded at least one death in 2025 include popular spots like Zion, Arches, Acadia, Badlands, Indiana Dunes, Death Valley, Hawai’i Volcanoes, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, and Sequoia — all of which experienced more than 1 million recreational visits last year.
With 323 million annual visitors, one might expect hundreds of deaths from every possible way imaginable but the National Park Rangers and park staff, continuously monitor the safety of the parks, the visitors and the animals, ensuring that everyone and everything live in harmony and are enjoying the parks as safely as possible.
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MOBILE, AL. A man who was found guilty in the shooting death of 9-year-old Cailee Knight, now will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Darius Lucky has received two sentences of Life Without the Possibility of Parole following his convictions for the Capital Murder of Cailee Knight, announced District Attorney Keith Blackwood.
A Mobile County jury previously found Lucky guilty of Capital Murder, Shooting into an Occupied Dwelling and Capital Murder of a Victim Less Than 14 Years of Age in the December 5, 2023, killing of Knight.
Evidence presented at trial showed that Lucky and his co-defendants fired multiple rounds into a residence where Cailee was asleep on the couch inside her home. Cailee was killed during the shooting.
Judge Brooks sentenced Lucky to Life Without the Possibility of Parole on both counts, the only sentence permitted under Alabama law for these convictions.
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MOBILE, AL. A new program in Mobile is already saving lives and proving that it works.
On Monday morning, the Mobile County EMS officially began carrying blood products on ambulances so that paramedics could immediately begin to administer blood to patients who were rapidly losing blood due to trauma, shootings or other emergencies.
This groundbreaking new program allows paramedics to administer blood before patients reach the hospital.
According to Mobile EMS, within just three and a half hours of deployment, crews performed their first transfusion in the field.
This is definitely a lifesaving measure that normally is done in a hospital setting but nationwide, we’re seeing that if paramedics can immediately start the resupplying of blood in their specialized ambulances, the patient’s outcome is usually much better, said emergency room doctor Frank Carter.
Mobile County EMS Training Manager Travis Burns said they deployed the service on Monday at 11 a.m. and in the first 36 hours we transfused three patients. Burns says he witnessed that first transfusion firsthand and watched the patient improve almost immediately.
The transfusions happen in specially equipped ambulances which are originally stocked with between two to three bags of blood and plasma and kept inside a cooler. Local blood banks usually supply EMS systems with the blood.
Burns says the ability to begin blood replacement before arriving at the emergency room is something paramedics have wanted for years.
“As experienced paramedics and providers, we’ve all had patients that could have benefited from pre-hospital blood,” Burns said. “To be able to make that intervention at the scene and know we’re giving patients the best chance of survival — it’s impactful.”
Executive Director Mark Turner says Mobile County EMS has remained in contact with trauma surgeons and emergency physicians treating those patients after they arrived at the hospital.
He says those medical teams agree the pre-hospital transfusions played a critical role in helping save their lives.
“In my personal opinion, all three of the patients we’ve had so far would have died in the field without the administration of pre-hospital blood,” Burns added.
Mobile County EMS says the agency hopes the early success of the program could eventually lead to expansion to more ambulances in the future.
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LAKE JACKSON, TX. A fast-growing favorite place to stop for gas, food and fun is now facing a federal lawsuit for discriminating against a former employee.
Buc-ee’s has recently been accused by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of failing to provide reasonable accommodation to an employee with a chronic condition.
In 2024, Dale Witt was diagnosed in 2024 with myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neuromuscular disease. It affected his ability to stand for long hours and, in June 2024, the Buc-ee’s cashier asked for his schedule to be changed to shorter hours.
But according to the lawsuit, Buc-ee’s management refused to accommodate Witt’s request and he was eventually terminated.
Witt, who worked at a Bastrop Buc-ee’s for three years, said in court filings that he was battling a life-threatening disease when he was fired after asking for the necessary accommodations which was suggested by his physician.
The company initially accommodated the request. However, Witt experienced a near-fatal crisis and was placed on a ventilator for weeks. He took medical leave until October 2024, then informed Buc-ee’s managers that he needed further accommodation, including a stool to sit on at the register and for his schedule to be changed to four-hour shifts.
In a letter, he told managers his disease meant he couldn’t stand for more than 15 minutes, explaining that his muscles start to shut down when he is physically taxed.
“When this happens, my respiratory muscles begin to fail,” he wrote, saying he must be able to sit when he begins to feel weak. After four hours of any activity, he said, his body is too weak to do anything until after four or five hours of rest.
Managers orginally agreed to four-hour workdays but denied his other requests, the EEOC said. The company said Witt could break up his 20-minute break into several shorter breaks.
But sitting while working was not an option Buc-ee’s would explore, the commission says.
According to the complaint, Witt was fired two days before Christmas 2024.
The EEOC says his employment was terminated because of his disease in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The complaint further alleges two violations: failure to provide reasonable accommodation and terminating him because of his disease.
“Employers must understand that disability accommodations are not optional suggestions; they are legal obligations,” said Norma Guzman Director of the EEOC San Antonio Field Office.
We reached out to Buc-ee’s corporate office but there’s been no reply.
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MOBILE, AL. The Mobile police were dispatched on Thursday, May 28, 2026, at approximately 12:00 p.m. to 3925 Michael Boulevard (Mobile County License Commission) in reference to a disorderly subject damaging property inside of the restroom.
Upon arrival, officers discovered the male subject still at the location, and he was detained.
Upon further investigation, officers discovered thousands of dollars’ worth of damage to the restroom.
Police arrested Nobel Hale, 41, for his actions and he was transported to Metro Jail.
He has been charged with Criminal mischief 1st Degree.
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BAY MINETTE, Ala. A mother has been arrested after law enforcement said that she caused the death of her infant son.
The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office arrested Kaitlynn Dominick ,22 after a two-week investigation and charged her with manslaughter and aggravated child abuse of a child under the age of six.
Investigators stated that Dominick gave the infant a liquid mixture through his feeding tube that ultimately caused his death, but they did not elaborate. The boy died May 5th, 2026, at USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital, one day after Dominick brought him in.
Investigators said the child had a medical condition that required him to be nourished through a feeding tube. The medical team at the hospital made a mandatory report to the Department of Human Resources after the child’s death and police were called in.
Investigators said that at the completion of their investigation that they determined that the liquid given the infant caused the child’s death.
Capt. Justin Correa of the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office stated the liquid given to the child caused the medical emergency that ultimately ended his life.
After two weeks of interviews with doctors, relatives and Dominick, investigators said they concluded she knew the liquid concoction would harm her son.
Correa stated that after conferring with the Baldwin County Attorney’s Office that they all agreed that this was a criminal and intentional offense.
Dominick is currently being held at the Baldwin County Detention Center.
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MOBILE, Ala. A Robertsdale man has entered into a plea agreement after being arrested previously on charges that he failed to deliver hundreds of pieces of mail, as part of hu=is job.
Timothy Chandler, 23 of Robertsdale was employed as a contract postal worker for the U.S. Postal Service but instead of delivering the mail to dozens of homes and businesses, he brought the mail home or destroyed it.
Originally, it was the Robertsdale police who had responded on November 29, 2025, to a complaint about a large amount of undelivered mail found in an apartment recently rented to him. It was enough to fill about eight post office bins, police said.
During the investigation, officers said that they found mail everywhere in the apartment. It was on the living room floor, under chair cushions, in the stove, on top of cabinets and inside of the refrigerator. Officers even found more mail in trash bags along with 66 empty bins.
Chandler pleaded guilty to delay or destruction of the mail and a federal judge set sentencing for Aug. 31. Chandler faces a maximum of five years in prison, but prosecutors have agreed to recommend leniency.
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MOBILE, AL. A Mobile County Metro Jail corrections officer was attacked and assaulted by an inmate with a “shank”. The officer was injured in the assault, and the inmate has been locked down in confinement.
The sheriff’s office has identified the inmate as Jeremiah Jackson.
The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said the assault happened when an inmate attacked the corrections officer with a shank, an improvised knife but authorities have not stated why.
The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit is now investigating the incident and Jackson could face charges of felony aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.
The officer sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital for observation, sheriff’s officials said.
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MOBILE, AL. A high-speed police pursuit that started in Mississippi ended in Mobile County Tuesday with two people taken into custody.
The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said that a truck was stolen in Mississippi, with Charles Mott behind the wheel intentionally rammed multiple sheriff’s vehicles before being taken into custody along with passenger Stephanie Valentine.
The sheriff’s office was notified were heading their way and deputies pursued the truck from the area of Moffett Road and Schillinger Road to the area of Snow Road and Brooklyns Way after deputies attempted a traffic stop on the vehicle.
Deputies attempted to stop the 2014 Chevrolet C35 because it matched the description of a vehicle reportedly stolen out of George County, Mississippi.
The pair is also accused of robbing a 66-year-old in Wilmer, hitting the victim in the head and stealing more than a thousand dollars.
Currently both are in Mobile County jail and face more charges in Mississippi.
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GULFPORT, MS. A shooting at the local Walmart in Gulfport has left two people dead and a third person hospitalized.
Gulfport police said that the shooting at 1:33 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, occurred at the Walmart Neighborhood Market gas station on Highway 49 North.
Gulfport police, fire and EMS were dispatched to the scene and discovered the three individuals suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Two of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer has identified those victims as 24-year-old Ontario Randle of Moss Point and 29-year-old Shaquari Smith of Gulfport. Smith sustained multiple gunshot wounds, while Randle suffered a single gunshot wound. The third victim was transported to a local hospital in critical condition.
At this time Gulfport has not given any details as to the cause of the shooting but said that they have several people in custody.
Preliminary investigation indicates the individuals involved were acquainted and some form of a confrontation occurred.
No additional information has been released at this time.
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MOBILE, AL. An announcement from the Mobile Chamber of Commerce states that another new business is moving into the neighborhood and bringing with it a $22.4 million metal recycling plant.
Jefferson Shredding and Recycling, LLC, is planning a co-location project at Outokumpu’s facility in Calvert and is expected to create 15 new jobs in Mobile County.
Outokumpu reportedly uses 95 percent recycled materials to produce fully recyclable stainless steel.
The main part of the project involves installing and operating a metal shredder to reduce large scrap metal pieces into smaller pieces that can then be melted and recycled.
In the release they stated that an estimated 9,000 tons of scrap metal will be recycled each month, resulting in nearly 108,000 tons recycled each year, according to officials.
“Jefferson Shredding and Recycling is proud to partner with Outokumpu on a project that strengthens the circular economy and supports the long-term future of metal manufacturing in our region,” said Paul Dreher Sr. of Jefferson Shredding and Recycling, LLC.
“By processing and recycling scrap metal locally, we’re creating a more efficient and sustainable supply chain while investing in an industry that provides high-quality jobs and drives economic growth across southwest Alabama.”
The investment is expected to create high-paying jobs and expand recycling and materials recovery efforts.
Jefferson Shredding and Recycling representatives said they plan to break ground on the project in June and start operations in August 2027.
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