Bill Riales

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Anchor and Digital Journalist at WKRG-TV (Mobile, AL)

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Golden Apple 2025 Year in Review

1 week ago | wkrg.com | Bill Riales

Posted: Jun 9, 2025 / 07:20 AM CDT Updated: Jun 9, 2025 / 07:43 AM CDT Mobile, Ala. (WKRG)– Our Golden Apple Award Special celebrates award-winning teachers from the 2024-2025 school year in Mobile and Baldwin Counties.
Happy students, and one really happy teacher at UMS-Wright

1 month ago | wkrg.com | Bill Riales

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Our Golden Apple team enjoys it when nearly the entire school celebrates a teacher winning a Golden Apple. And that’s what happened at UMS-Wright Preparatory School. Mary Ann McGrew is a popular teacher at UMS-Wright. She’s been there for about 30 years and she has always taught elementary students. In this case, fourth-graders. As the end of the school year nears, they are plenty busy. McGrew said, “We’re talking about weather.
Vietnam Veteran left the Marines, but keeps on serving

1 month ago | wkrg.com | Bill Riales

Posted: May 19, 2025 / 11:38 AM CDT Updated: May 15, 2025 / 07:09 PM CDT MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — In the early days of U.S. involvement in Vietnam — about 1964 — Gwyn Howard said his Dad told him something. “Come out of college, and I was working with the power company over in Lorman, Mississippi, and I came in and my Daddy — I guess he was looking out for me — he said, you need to go sign up for the National Guard tomorrow.
Theater, English, and a Golden Apple at Phillips Prep

1 month ago | wkrg.com | Bill Riales

Posted: May 13, 2025 / 11:37 AM CDT Updated: May 5, 2025 / 01:47 AM CDT MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Brooks Walton has been a teacher for 21 years, but for the past 17 years, she has been teaching drama to sixth graders and English to seventh graders at Phillips Preparatory School in Mobile — and she enjoys it. “The kids are hilarious and so smart too.
Theater, English, and a Golden Apple at Phillips Prep

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Bill Riales

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Brooks Walton has been a teacher for 21 years, but for the past 17 years, she has been teaching drama to sixth graders and English to seventh graders at Phillips Preparatory School in Mobile — and she enjoys it. Four teams compete in 10th Annual Alabama Seafood Cook-Off at The Wharf “The kids are hilarious and so smart too. I’m the scholars bowl coach too, and we’ve got some really smart, great kids,” said Walton.
St. Paul's first-grade teacher says there are many rewards at the end of the year

1 month ago | wkrg.com | Bill Riales

Posted: May 6, 2025 / 11:50 AM CDT Updated: Apr 29, 2025 / 01:30 PM CDT Mobile, Ala. (WKRG) — We’re coming up soon on the end of the school year. It’s a time when St. Paul’s Episcopal School’s Megan Herrboldt reflects on all the things her first-graders have learned over the past few months.
Mobile Christian School teacher is a cheerleader for her students

1 month ago | wkrg.com | Bill Riales

Posted: Apr 29, 2025 / 11:50 AM CDT Updated: Apr 27, 2025 / 08:39 PM CDT MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — You could call it a family affair here at Mobile Christian School, where Anita Presley–Miss Anita to her students and everyone else–has been teaching for more than 20 years. “This is like everything you’d ever want from a school–this is it, family, friends, happiness, Jesus–all of it,” said Presley.
Vietnam Vet and Green Beret talks about his 36-year military career

1 month ago | wkrg.com | Bill Riales

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — WKRG and parent company Nexstar will air a special report marking the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The special will air on WKRG on Saturday, May 3, at 7 p.m.Mobile native and Retired Army Colonel Pat Downing said he joined the Army in 1960. “Went to Ft. Jackson, basic training, advanced infantry training,” he said.
Vietnam Vet and Green Beret talks about his 36-year military career

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Bill Riales

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — WKRG and parent company Nexstar will air a special report marking the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The special will air on WKRG on Saturday, May 3, at 7 p.m.Mobile native and Retired Army Colonel Pat Downing said he joined the Army in 1960. “Went to Ft. Jackson, basic training, advanced infantry training,” he said.
She's taught only kindergartners for 2 decades

2 months ago | wkrg.com | Bill Riales

Posted: Apr 22, 2025 / 11:49 AM CDT Updated: Apr 21, 2025 / 02:14 PM CDT DAPHNE, Ala. (WKRG) — Brandi New has been teaching for two decades. Three of those years have been at Daphne East Elementary School. But during all of those years, she’s taught only kindergarten. Two of her former students helped us deliver her Golden Apple Award.