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With five stages going at the same time, navigating on the sugar white beach of Gulf Shores, to catch the next band could be a little work, or not, depending on how you want to chill at this annual three day music party. Last year we hung without a schedule and things worked out fine, though we missed a few…

The story of Matthew W. Mount begins in September of 1985 in Harrison County, Penn., the month he was born. At age 14 months his family moved to Mobile,Alabama where today at age 27 Mount lives on the downtown streets of the city. In this first interview, conducted at a local breakfast restaurant Mount…

All Mobile Fire Rescue Department employees were called down to have the annual Tuberculosis skin test done with the option to either receive or refuse a TB skin test.

The annual TB skin test was conducted at a classroom facility the Mobile Fire Department leases at the festival center next to Academy…

New York City mayor Bloomberg has seen the light since his press conference yesterday and is telling folks, "The storm is coming." He ordered the subway system shut down tonight at 9:00 PM eastern time. New Jersey is doing the same in major cities. Sometimes weather forecasters over-hype the potential danger of a coming storm, preferring to err on the side of just in case - but in the case of Sandy it is becoming increasingly clear the warnings are not hype but the actual truth. There's not…

Baroclinic energy is the force that occurs when warm and cold air collide and one mass is injected with the energy of the other. If you consider the word "collide" then you might understand what can happen when two very large bodies of air masses - one of them a hurricane - collide. In the collision one of the bodies of air - the larger, more powerful one, can be injected with super energy. Basically, it sucks up the other mass and makes it one with it. (Image: NASA)…

The FBI has intercepted a plot by an active duty New York City police officer to kidnap and rape women, and eventually cook and eat them. The officer,Gilberto Valle, was a patrolman at a Manhattan precinct until Wednesday, October 24 when he was suspended. Authorities were able to intercept emails Valle sent and received from another person who may have been part of the plan. The Queens police officer is expected to appear in federal court today. - Mobile Tribune.

The state treasurer for the state of Indiana, who is running for senator recently said during a debate "I came to realize life is a gift from God, and I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."

God, it seems,…

Although there are several possible scenarios for the path of Hurricane Sandy, the most likely landfall will be along the east coast of the United States. Given the size of the storm - it will spread more than 300 miles out once it interacts with a trough along the east coast - where exactly it makes landfall is not as significant as with a stronger, smaller storm. There is a possibility the storm will collide with a winter storm and create a mix of tropical storm-northeaster. People in…

The owner of a mortuary in Mobile,Alabama is expected to be the name announced as replacement for outgoing council member Jermaine Burrell, who found a better job in Boston, Mass. Mobile Mayor Sam Jones will make the announcement at any time, and CJ Small is the expected name to be heard. The Mobile City Council is…

On a terrain that looks hauntingly familiar - like Earth, the roving Mars machine the U.S. put down on that planet may have found gold or some similar jewel. No doubt mining companies on our planet are already mapping out plans to somehow travel to the red planet and starting collecting the minerals - or whatever they are. -Mobile Tribune…

The Charles Manson Family story is by far the most notorious and unusual murder case in U.S. history. The story of Manson and his followers is one that still causes many to shudder in disbelief. Now, today, the group are back in the news as possibly being responsible for numerous unsolved homicides in the Los Angeles area over 40 years ago - at the time of the Sharon Tate murders that put them in prison.…

A car bomb exploded in Beirut, Lebanon today but so far no one has claimed responsibility. In a region of the world so constantly volatile and never far from an all-out major war, the criminals behind the explosion could be politically motivated and from a nearby country. At least eight people…

If trade unions are allowed to flourish in the state of Alabama, the results down the road could prove disastrous to employers, including new ones and really big ones coming such as Airbus. Alabama voters will see Amendment 7 on next months election ballot. If passed it would stop unions from allowing employees to…

Granted, Mobile,Alabama is not nearly the culinary capital of the world, worst yet, it has very few really outstanding restaurants. However, tonight, once again a little restaurant on Old Shell road near University comes through with excellent service and food. For a very small, neighborhood eatery they also know how to make things happen at the bar.

We were in the mood for an Irish coffee but were rebuffed at two pizza restaurants nearby, one on University at Old Shell and one on Old…

Shortly after midnight on Thursday, October 11, 2012 Mobile,Alabama artist Wayne McNeil said he was sitting on his front porch swing, with his back to the street when two black males wearing black Hoodies and white tennis shoes shot him three times. McNeil had just arrived back home from a concert at the gallery where he is Curator in the Education division. Ironically, later that morning the remaining two suspects in the Kyser Miree murder trail were in court again where they plead guilty…