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Fairhope made the CBS david letterman show for the dog running for Mayor. New Orleans Mississippi River oil spill put the port of Mobile in the news because their cruise ship has had to dock here twice! (wkrg.com) 
WKRG NEWS 5 Home Town Tour 5pm and 6pm—be there and be on tv!
Readers are invited to send in their one page essays on any subject on interest @ REPORT or @ CONTACT.
Here is the first in the series:
WHAT IS NORMAL IN AMERICA?
Today a man hunt is at Bel Air Mall. A man robbed a bank. Why? Is he poor, black, sick, evil, a drug addict, a thief, …
wkrg.com reports today’s ground breaking of their new facility will be attended by Governor Riley. Austal is an international company from Australia and came to the US as a partner with Bender Ship Building and located in Mobile. The company across the river from the foot of Government Street, the historic site of Mobile in …
The Mobile Delta river and bay system receives a large watershed of water, and is the largest delta east of the Mississippi River in America. This NASA 1972 photo shows Lake Forest run off during …
When a man was arrested after they found his woman dead in a freezer locals news when nuts. Our very own polular version of CSI Miami with sex, hatchet chops, preachers and rape and incest. Before you blame the local media for their voyoueristic interest remember they are giving viewers what they want, not what …
Reader Opinion: It is no secret that the Obama nation will rule and Alabama Artur Davis will be offered a position in the administration which he might turn down to run for Governor. Tim James will carry the populist white vote of his father’s Republican base and Mike Dow will wait on Davis to decide. …
Mobile Gas has been sold today. The Press Register, once run by Mobile Gas President Bill Hearin, offered this historical note of interest today:
Sept. 20, 1836: The city of Mobile contracts with James H. Caldwell to set up gaslights around the city. Caldwell forms the Mobile Gaslight and Coke Co., which is serving 850 homes …
What folks will be talking about today: WKRG reports woman body found in freezer at home
What folks should be talking about today: al.com reports Mobile Gas is sold to California company
The spin: was the woman a victim of too much crime tv watching, or high food prices?
The question: will the loss of another major Mobile heritage …
Once the Holiday Inn on the Causeway, Phillip Drane found the location became well known quickly as the Shoulder, and for many life saving. He lead the Christain facility as a last stop for men in need of help with alcohol and drug problems. The free clinic has now moved to Daphne and plans to …
United Fruit ships were always white to deflect the heat as they left Mobile for Havana. This day six passengers were on board dining with the captain. At the table were waiters behind each guest, dressed in white, intelligent and friendly in manners of another era. The gourmet meal was signature treatment of a trip …
The first peach queen in 1947 from the Alabama county with the peach as a water tower is celebrated in this weekly newspaper. Today one can stop there at the Jones interstate fruit stand and get a basket of the Stone Free variety, where the pit pops out like a small rock and the peach …
The debate over fair treatment of Iraq war detainees in Cuba has taken on a large discussion over the Geneva Convention rules the US military applies. The thinking is thast you cant have a legitement victory in war if you do not follow certain universal, human, moral rules of engagement. You are not to torture, …
A new Harvard study acknowledged the range of symptoms in some mental illnesses can put genius and illness nearby in the same spectrum of function. In one observation a doctor noted that an average functioning person as a base can be compared to an outgoing person as stage one, a creative person as stage two, …
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