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1 week ago | 
wsfa.com | Ariel Mallory |Claudia Nichols
UPDATE: The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says two boats crashed around 5:50 p.m. Sunday. One woman was fatally injured and two others were injured. A 20 ft Avid Center Console, operated by 19-year-old Robert T. Lofton of Lucedale, Miss., struck a 26 ft Regulator Center Console vessel, operated by Jerry Hocutt Jr., 52, according to ALEA. Both operators were uninjured after the crash. Brittney Sherman, 27, was thrown overboard following the collision.
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1 week ago | 
wbrc.com | Ariel Mallory |Claudia Nichols
SARALAND, Ala. (WALA) - One woman is missing and a child is injured following a boating accident in Bayou Sara, authorities say. Saraland Police Chief J.C. West confirmed there is an active search for a missing woman in the water. Late Sunday afternoon, West says, two boats collided with each other off Bayou Sara. We’re told a young child has been airlifted to the hospital. A dive team has been deployed in the water. Mobile Fire-Rescue and Saraland Fire-Rescue have responded.
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1 week ago | 
wsfa.com | Ariel Mallory |Claudia Nichols
SARALAND, Ala. (WALA) - One woman is missing and a child is injured following a boating accident in Bayou Sara, authorities say. Saraland Police Chief J.C. West confirmed there is an active search for a missing woman in the water. Late Sunday afternoon, West says, two boats collided with each other off Bayou Sara. We’re told a young child has been airlifted to the hospital. A dive team has been deployed in the water. Mobile Fire-Rescue and Saraland Fire-Rescue have responded.
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2 weeks ago | 
wlox.com | Claudia Nichols
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Some families are on edge after a naked man was caught on camera multiple nights in a row in a Tillman’s Corner neighborhood. A neighbor described the moments the alarming sight when the naked man showed up on her ring camera video. He was wandering across her lawn at four in the morning. “I just went and looked at my cameras and I was looking for my cat and instead I see a completely nude, except for socks, man, walk by,” she said.
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3 weeks ago | 
wtvy.com | Claudia Nichols
GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) - The City of Gulf Shores is one step closer to making a big decision. City leaders had the chance to hear the community’s thoughts on this year’s new music festival, Sand in my Boots, and whether or not they should bring it back next year. “No venue should ever be allowed to block public access to the public beach, the boulevard, the water that we swim in…never be blocked,” said a Gulf Shores resident.
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3 weeks ago | 
wsfa.com | Robert Ristaneo |Claudia Nichols
PRICHARD, Ala. (WALA) - Prichard Police Officer David Cunningham, 22, has been arrested in Orange County, Florida, on a kidnapping warrant out of Harrison County, Mississippi, according to authorities. Orange County officials said they received word that Cunningham had warrants and was residing in their area. Deputies said they found him on Tuesday and arrested him. Cunningham’s arrest affidavit said they arrested him at a Disney World Resort.
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3 weeks ago | 
wsfa.com | Claudia Nichols
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The community is shaken after a fatal shooting at a children’s dance recital at the Saenger Theatre on Sunday night. Families left traumatized after ducking for cover when gunshots rang out. Police said Carl Williams III was killed and a bystander in the crowd was also shot in the ankle. “Where can we actually go nowadays that’s actually fully safe for us to be?” said Bhavika Sethi. Marcus Sanders was arrested and charged with murder and assault.
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3 weeks ago | 
wlox.com | Claudia Nichols
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The community is shaken after a fatal shooting at a children’s dance recital at the Saenger Theatre on Sunday night. Families left traumatized after ducking for cover when gunshots rang out. Police said Carl Williams III was killed and a bystander in the crowd was also shot in the ankle. “Where can we actually go nowadays that’s actually fully safe for us to be?” said Bhavika Sethi. Marcus Sanders was arrested and charged with murder and assault.
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4 weeks ago | 
wjhg.com | Claudia Nichols
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch laid out the scene moments before a deadly shooting near Citronelle. “Alcohol and drugs and guns is never a good mix,” said Burch. “And young people with guns is usually not a good mix.”It all happened after a graduation party two weeks ago. 19-year-old Jaylon Rivers was shot and killed in a cul-de-sac off Tom Hopkins Road. His grandmother who lives just a couple houses down from where the shooting happened heard it all.
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1 month ago | 
wsfa.com | Claudia Nichols
GULF BREEZE, Fla. (WALA) - A man made a desperate 911 call after getting attacked by a bear in his backyard in Santa Rosa County early Thursday morning. “I just got bit by a bear in my backyard,” he said. “It tried to attack my dog, and I went to rescue my dog, and it bit me, my leg.”He told the 911 operator the bear charged him in his backyard in Gulf Breeze, Florida. “He charged me again after he bit me,” he said. The man said he was bleeding, and the bear just chased his dog toward the house.
