http://www.yourstreet.com/news/acropolis-heights-al The latest Acropolis Heights, AL news updated hourly from thousands of sources. To see this news on a map, visit YourStreet.com. en-us A University of South Alabama economics professor has been charged with sending obscene pictures to a minor. http://www.yourstreet.com/4754768/professor-charged-with-sending-obscene-pictures MOBILE, Ala. -- A University of South Alabama economics professor has been charged with sending obscene pictures to a minor. Federal law enforcement officers arrested Barry... http://www.yourstreet.com/4750922/usa-prof-charged-with-sending-obscene-pics-to-minor MOBILE, Ala. - As the 2008 hurricane season draws to a close, Mobile County officials are buying equipment to help residents during emergencies. The season ends Sunday. The... http://www.yourstreet.com/4745053/mobile-county-entities-purchase-receive-emergnecy-equipment Lambert Mims, a 20-year Mobile city commissioner and mayor whose public career spanned an era of significant economic and social change, died Monday evening at Mobile Infirmary... http://www.yourstreet.com/4734313/former-mayor-lambert-mims-dead-at-78 Jamie Kellam Letson, 47, was arrested Friday in Jackson, Miss., and charged with the Feb. 21,1980, killing that has been one of Mobile's most prominent mysteries Mobile Police... http://www.yourstreet.com/4734310/deputy-chief-we-suspected-jealousy-in-usa-slaying The University of West Florida women's basketball team started strong and held on for a 72-60 win against Spring Hill College on Tuesday at the UWF Field House. http://www.yourstreet.com/4732105/young-uwf-top-spring-hill According to a recent news release in the Mobile Press Register, Leroy High School graduate Taylor White has signed to play baseball at the University of South Alabama (USA) in... http://www.yourstreet.com/4729691/taylor-white-inks-with-usa An Eight Mile man, wanted for a probation violation, died in a gunbattle with two probation officers in midtown Mobile, also leaving one of the officers wounded. Mobile police... http://www.yourstreet.com/4725118/suspect-killed-in-gunbattle Multiple law enforcement sources tell NBC 15 News Jamie Letson has confessed to murdering her friend, Katherine Foster. Foster was shot and found dead near the campus of the... http://www.yourstreet.com/4721138/sources-woman-confesses-to-murdering-usa-student MOBILE, Ala. -- Michael Thornton, 17, surrendered to authorities Friday on a first-degree robbery charge, Mobile police said today. MOBILE, Ala. -- Michael Thornton, 17,... http://www.yourstreet.com/4720138/mobile-teen-charged-with-first-degree-robbery From the day the investigation started 28 years ago in the shooting death of Pascagoula native Katherine Foster, a hometown friend and fellow University of South Alabama coed... http://www.yourstreet.com/4714265/28-year-old-case-now-has-suspect Evidence that surfaced five years ago led investigators to arrest a woman at a Mississippi homeless shelter in the slaying of an 18-year-old University of South Alabama student... http://www.yourstreet.com/4708062/woman-arrested-in-1980-slaying-of-ala-student This Saturday, the University of South Alabama and Gulf Coast Motorcycle Saftey, Incorporated are hosting a Thanksgiving Blood Drive. The need for blood may be lowered, if more... http://www.yourstreet.com/4705153/crash-course-on-motorcycle-safety PRICHARD, Ala. -- A 32-year-old man found shot in a vehicle in Prichard died from his injuries on Thursday, police said today. The man and a 28-year-old woman were found shot... http://www.yourstreet.com/4702470/prichard-shooting-victim-dies-from-injuries-after-dial-street-incident MOBILE, Ala. -- Mobile County deputies working with Alcoholic Beverage Control agents on Thursday arrested Leslie James France on drug-related charges, authorities said today.... http://www.yourstreet.com/4700655/prichard-man-arrested-on-drug-related-charges MOBILE, Ala. - Mobile County Sheriff's deputies arrested seven men and three women Wednesday on drug-related charges as a result of the department's Meth Initiative Program,... http://www.yourstreet.com/4692552/10-people-arrested-in-mobile-county-on-meth-related-charges MOBILE, Ala. -- "The Saints of Mount Christopher," a feature film that has been shooting in Mobile on and off this year, has resumed production and will stage a mock... http://www.yourstreet.com/4665982/movie-production-to-stage-basketball-scene-at-university-of-south-alabama A man was shot to death Wednesday night in the 3000 block of Stovall Street in the Eight Mile area of Prichard, authorities said Thursday. Hiawatha Robinson, 45, was shot... http://www.yourstreet.com/4643962/man-found-shot-to-death-in-prichard-ala PRICHARD, Ala. -- A man was shot to death Wednesday night in the 3000 block of Stovall Street in the Eight Mile area of Prichard, authorities said. Prichard police did not... http://www.yourstreet.com/4637187/man-shot-to-death-wednesday-night-in-prichard class at Gillmore Elementary School participated in a unit on voting taught by Rachael Steed, a student from the University of South Alabama. Students participated in several... http://www.yourstreet.com/4628779/students-learn-about-voting MOBILE, Ala. -- An attorney for a Mississippi man accused of driving to Alabama to have sex with a 13-year-old girl asked a federal judge last week to prohibit prosecutors from... http://www.yourstreet.com/4605969/lawyer-seeks-to-bar-computer-evidence-in-alleged-predator-case WASHINGTON -- During much of the past two decades, members of the Alabama congressional delegation rode a GOP wave to accumulate an outsized amount of power, particularly over... http://www.yourstreet.com/4574326/election-could-erode-influence-of-alabama-lawmakers EIGHT MILE, Ala. -- Mobile County sheriff's deputies found a working methamphetamine lab on Monday during a routine probation check at a home in the 3900 block of St. Stephens... http://www.yourstreet.com/4557911/meth-lab-found-by-mobile-county-sheriff-s-deputies-in-eight-mile A sluggish economy might be sending Caitlin Collins to graduate school. With jobs tight, the 21-year-old finance major at the University of South Alabama, on track to graduate... http://www.yourstreet.com/4553281/employment-outlook-bleak-for-grads MOBILE, Ala. -- The Watercolor & Graphic Arts Society of Mobile will exhibit its vibrant colors to the public from Saturday through Dec. 19 in the third-floor gallery of the... http://www.yourstreet.com/4530894/mobile-s-watercolor-graphic-arts-society-to-open-fall-exhibit MOBILE, Ala. -- The University of South Alabama has raised $76.3 million in its first-ever major capital campaign, exceeding its $75 million goal. The 14,300 student... http://www.yourstreet.com/4522567/university-of-south-alabama-surpasses-capital-campaign-goal-by-reaching Federal fishery regulators have delayed a vote on an aquaculture proposal that would open the Gulf of Mexico to fish farms -- a plan that has drawn concern over the potential... http://www.yourstreet.com/4520312/gulf-council-delays-aquaculture-vote-during-meeting-in-mobile-county MOBILE, Ala. -- A former physician was arrested today by Mobile police after they said he abused a child. David Ozment, 41, was babysitting the baby on Oct. 3 at his home in... http://www.yourstreet.com/4504807/former-physician-arrested-on-child-abuse-charge A murder trial in which the weapon was a pair of scissors and the accused a cross-dressing female impersonator got under way Monday in Mobile, but not before the judge rejected... http://www.yourstreet.com/4499982/anti-gay-potential-jurors-out-of-trial-in-mobile-county-circuit-court The presidential election is just over a week away, but some Mobile leaders have already started thinking about the votes that will be cast next summer. Mayor Sam Jones and all... http://www.yourstreet.com/4490803/mayor-council-prepare-for-09 Fisheries regulators could vote this week on a proposal that would open the Gulf of Mexico to raising fish in underwater cages and pens. The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management... http://www.yourstreet.com/4490892/gulf-fish-farms-eyed Traci C. Gyan planned to head north on Interstate 65 after graduating from the University of South Alabama. That was in 1999, and the public relations major from Birmingham had... http://www.yourstreet.com/4480898/groups-strive-to-keep-grads-in-mobile PRICHARD, Ala. -- Prichard police released the names of two wanted suspects today. Police are interested in information about the whereabouts of Lonni Sales and Cornelius Jones... http://www.yourstreet.com/4476929/prichard-releases-names-of-two-wanted-suspects MOBILE, Ala. — David West scored 22 points, Peja Stojakovic added 14 and the New Orleans Hornets were 9-of-16 from 3-point range in their 100-80 exhibition victory over the... http://www.yourstreet.com/4468744/west-lead-hornets-past-heat Observations from Thursday's 100-80 exhibition loss to the Hornets at the Mitchell Center on the campus of the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Ala.: It was as much a... http://www.yourstreet.com/4468691/hornets-100-heat-80 Police placed Prichard, Alabama’s Vigor High School on lockdown after a gunshot was fired outside. http://www.yourstreet.com/4461772/high-school-put-on-lockdown-after-man-fires-shot When Dorne Dewaine Wheeler saw Judy Logan and Robert Cain buying crack cocaine from another Alabama Village drug dealer July 7, 2007, it made him furious because Cain already... http://www.yourstreet.com/4453930/guilty-verdict-in-shooting-in-prichard-ala-over-10-drug-debt "Critical Water Issues in Baldwin County" is set for 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday at the Gulf Shores Adult Activity Center, 260 Clubhouse Drive. The forum will include a panel of... http://www.yourstreet.com/4454049/critical-water-issues-forum-thursday-in-gulf-shores "Critical Water Issues in Baldwin County" is set for 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday at the Gulf Shores Adult Activity Center, 260 Clubhouse Drive. The forum will include a panel of... http://www.yourstreet.com/4453254/critical-water-issues-forum-thursday-in-gulf-shores When Dorne Dewaine Wheeler saw Judy Logan and Robert Cain buying crack cocaine from another Alabama Village drug dealer July 7, 2007, it made him furious because Cain already... http://www.yourstreet.com/4449037/guilty-verdict-in-shooting-in-prichard-ala-over-10-drug-debt