• 2 killed in wrong- way crash
Less than five minutes before two people were killed in a head-on collision on Interstate 65, Saraland police received a call about a pickup truck headed north in the southbound lanes.

• Some politicians oppose mayor's annexation plan
The city of Mobile may have a fight on its hands as it moves to annex a section of Semmes. Several county and state politicians who represent the community have joined the opposition movement.

• Business asks circuit judge to overturn penalty
The Mobile City Council on Tuesday continued to crack down on stores that have repeatedly sold alcohol to minors, even after one business took legal action to stop the city's tactics.

• Former SEC boss joins Alabama probe Harvey Pitt appointed deputy AG to investigate suspected financial crimes
Alabama is enlisting some high-powered help in its battle against financial crime.

• 2 months left on 4-laning work
Transportation officials say they plan to finish within two months a project turning Alabama 113 north of Flomaton into a four-laned hurricane evacuation route serving south Alabama and the Pensacola area.

• Arrest warrant names official
Washington County investigators were searching Tuesday for a county commissioner accused of threatening to kill a witness expected to testify against him in a corruption case, said Sheriff Richard Stringer.

• City council approves cruise contract
The Mobile City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a contract with Carnival Cruise Lines to accept the larger ship the company plans to base here in November 2009.

• Corrections
An article in Sunday's Press-Register incorrectly

• Discovery of rabid fox raises health alert
Staff Report

• Insurance commissioner to join re-insurance firm
After five years as the state's chief insurance regulator, Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell is going to work for Swiss Re, the world's largest re-insurance company, according to a company news release.

• Keep an eye on Fay
A typical summer pattern of scattered showers and thunderstorms should remain in store for our area for at least the next couple of days as we watch to see what Tropical Storm Fay is going to do.

• Man faces second-degree rape charge
Staff Report

• Metro Briefs
Daphne holdup suspect surrenders to police

• Mobile baker Charles Pollman dies at 88
Charles Joseph Pollman, a second-generation owner and operator of the popular Mobile bakery that carries the family name, died Monday at his residence. The lifelong Mobile resident was 88.

• MOBILE COUNTY SCHOOLS
After the case was shuffled through two judges who recused themselves because they are married to school administrators, Mobile County Circuit Judge John Lockett has scheduled a Friday proceeding to help determine whether two candidates for the county school board and one for constable should be disqualified.

• Police seek suspect in Sunday sex attack
Staff Report

• Woman appeals bankruptcy case judgment
Karen Russell went to court in Tuscaloosa County in July 2007 seeking help to get a former professional basketball player from Mobile to pay her more than $82,000 in back child support.

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• Fantasy fulfilled Mobile is getting a bigger cruise ship
Mobile's desire to become a major cruise port took another step forward Monday afternoon in a room filled with Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans and cat food.

• Prosecutor appointed in Stabler DUI case
ROBERTSDALE ? City officials appointed John Gamble as temporary prosecutor for Kenny Stabler's drunken-driving case, but are still looking for a judge for the Oct. 22 municipal court hearing.

• More marijuana plants destroyed in area
More marijuana plants from Baldwin and Mobile counties have been destroyed so far this year than in all of last year, according to the Alabama Department of Public Safety.

• Bigfoot expert says photos of carcass seem authentic
The story sounds like something out of a low-budget documentary: Two men discover a Bigfoot carcass in the woods, store it in a freezer and later proclaim to the world that they've proven the presence of the apelike creates.

• Business burglarized; four arrested
Staff Report

• City looks to get more cash with larger ship
Mobile officials said the city stands to make about $2 million more per year in parking fees after Carnival Cruise Lines upgrades its ship here in November 2009.

• Corrections
A Friday story incorrectly described injures sustained by Baldwin County Sheriff's Deputy Andrew Ashton when an alleged drunken driver crashed into his marked car May 4. Ashton was flown to Baptist Hospital in Pensacola and then to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he underwent extensive surgery for leg and hip injuries. The woman who faces felony charges in the case, Summar Marousky, was flown to Baptist Hospital in Pensacola for treatment of multiple injuries, but was not then flown to UAB.

• Daphne police seek suspect in holdup
Staff Report

• Expect more storms
Rain doesn't seem to be in much of a hurry to go away, thanks in part to a weak stationary front lingering in the region.

• Funeral planned for 18-year-old football player
Sam Henry Collins Jr., a freshman studying pre-dentistry at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, died Friday after suffering from heatstroke during football practice. He was 18.

• Lightning strike dazes teen
A Theodore High School varsity football player was dazed Monday afternoon when lighting struck the concession stand where he had taken shelter from a storm, the school's principal said.

• Man sentenced to 20 years for role in robbery, beating
BAY MINETTE ? A Cottondale man will serve at least 20 years in prison for his role in a robbery that police said included restraining and beating an Orange Beach man in his home and later using his credit cards for a New Year's Eve shopping spree.

• Men plead guilty to playing role in 2005 Daphne murder
BAY MINETTE — The lives of two Baldwin County teens took a fateful turn in May 2005 after they agreed to help a panicked friend, but didn't retreat when they learned it involved disposing of a Fairhope man, gasping his final breaths, according to their defense attorneys.

• Men plead guilty to playing role in 2005 Daphne murder
BAY MINETTE ? The lives of two Baldwin County teens took a fateful turn in May 2005 after they agreed to help a panicked friend, but didn't retreat when they learned it involved disposing of a Fairhope man, gasping his final breaths, according to their defense attorneys.

• Waterspout seen off island
Staff Report

• Wreck kills 23-year-old man
A 23-year-old Mobile man died Sunday morning when the car he was driving at a high rate of speed struck a utility pole at Airport and University boulevards, a Mobile police spokeswoman said.

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