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Ho Van Le, who trawls in the Gulf of Mexico aboard his 50-foot vessel Star Light, understands the price squeeze facing shrimpers as this year's season gets under way amid a global recession.
The graduates patted each other's backs, and nervously chatted with their families. Some sat quietly, meditating about their future while others wept.
An Alabama inmate has been executed for the 1990 killing of a mother of six, his death witnessed by all of the victim's grown children from a room steps away.
An Alabama inmate has been executed for murdering a man in 1988 during a cocaine robbery.
A multinational coalition must stand up against Somali pirates like the ones who raided an American cargo ship this week, the president of the company that manages the ship said Monday.
A clean water expert at Auburn University hopes a new project that enlists middle and high school students will help reduce farm runoff that is a growing pollution threat to the Gulf of Mexico.
A man who authorities say tried to break onto the set of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" was ticketed on his way to California and let go, despite telling a police officer in Alabama that his plan to meet contestant Shawn Johnson was "a little bit crazy."
A jobless shrimper who killed four young children by casting them from the top of an 80-foot-high Alabama bridge was sentenced to death by a jury Friday in a crime witnesses said followed an argument with the mother of the victims.
A federal grand jury has indicted three owners of a Mobile-based pharmacy, four pharmacists and five others in a $4 million steroid distribution scheme that allegedly operated in at least 10 states, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.
Mobile officials are considering providing free, wireless Internet services in the downtown district, joining the ranks of other cities with free wi-fi for roving laptop users on Main Street.
Crews keep building high sand barriers to protect this fragile strip of land from erosion, and nature's wrath keeps washing them away.
Hurricanes that whip the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of Southern states take a human toll, but they also claim another victim on an enormous scale — the majestic trees, many draped in Spanish moss, that form canopies over historic streets across the region.
The school system in coastal Baldwin County — 60 miles by 25 miles of Alabama farmland framed on two sides by waterfront towns — was short on teachers, especially in courses such as math and science.
South Korea's Se Ri Pak defended the LPGA Tour in the wake of its short-lived plan to suspend players who don't speak English well enough to satisfy sponsors, saying Wednesday that learning the language can benefit rising international stars.
Hurricane Gustav left shrimp rotting on vessels across southeastern Louisiana, where fishing communities without power also lack ice.
Patrick Lett returned to south Alabama when he finished an unblemished 17-year Army career, including two tours in Iraq. Then his father died, he couldn't find work to support his two daughters and his life took a wrong turn.
The Alabama Supreme Court postponed executing a man after an inmate claimed in an sworn statement to defense attorneys that he committed the murder that sent the condemned man to death row.
A part-time south Alabama evangelist pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a murder charge in the death of his wife, a mother of eight whose body had been stored in a freezer at least three years.
The childhood home of former baseball home run king Hank Aaron will be donated to the city where he grew up and will become a museum operated by the city's minor-league team.
Two doctors pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges they helped distribute steroids in a Mobile-based investigation that grew from a wider probe of steroid use in professional baseball.
A student recently charged in a robbery and suspended from school fired a gun into the ceiling of his high school gym and then killed himself in front of about 150 classmates during a school assembly, police said.
Encouraged by record crop prices in Alabama's farm forecast, growers must find the money to start planting while at the same time avoid being hit with rocketing costs for fuel, fertilizer, seeds and equipment.
The body of a 3-year-old boy was recovered Sunday in the search for four children allegedly thrown from a coastal bridge by their father, authorities said.
The search for the bodies of the last two of four children allegedly thrown from an 80-foot-tall coastal bridge by their father ended for the night Monday without success.
The body of a 3-year-old boy was recovered Sunday in the search for four children allegedly thrown from a coastal bridge by their father, the sheriff said.
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