Baldwin County, Alabama News and Discussion
March 5th, 2011 — Daphne, Foley, Orange Beach
Mystics of Pleasure parade in Orange Beach has been postponed. The Mystics will roll following the Orange Beach parade on Fat Tuesday. That parade starts at 2.
The Krewe of Les Beau Geste parade in Foley has also been canceled due to weather and will not be rescheduled.
The Shadow Barons parade in Daphne has been postponed. They will now hit the streets Sunday at 4pm
March 1st, 2011 — Daphne, Fairhope
Beads were flying in Daphne Friday. The Apollo Mystic Ladies rolled out kicking off Mardi Gras on the Eastern Shore.
The Apollo Mystic Ladies rode down Main Street and set the tone for Mardi Gras on the Eastern Shore.
Mardi Gras kicks off in Daphne
March 1st, 2011 — Crime, Daphne
Baldwin County grand jury to hear case against Bon Secour man accused of threatening police officer
Arraignments set in two sex-crime cases in Baldwin County
Daphne police arrest ‘Pop Crum,’ Montrose man sought since January, on burglary charge
Guilty verdict returned against Bay Minette man in baseball bat attack
February 25th, 2011 — Daphne
The City Council on Monday overturned the mayor’s veto of a council decision two weeks ago to change the municipality’s bonding requirements for certain elected officials and staff members.
Of the council’s seven members, five voted in favor of overriding the veto, one voted against the measure, and one — Council President Cathy Barnette — abstained from voting.
February 23rd, 2011 — Daphne
Council President Cathy Barnette said she is being politically attacked because she is personally vulnerable — her husband had two recent heart surgeries, her family’s income dropped and her credit score plummeted.
As a result, the city’s bank wouldn’t bond her, as required by city law. The council voted Feb. 7 to drop the requirement that the council’s president and president pro tempore carry $500,000 bonds to protect the municipality against theft or loss.
Last week, Mayor Fred Small vetoed the ordinance. He said Monday that he had tried to avoid airing out Barnette’s personal business, but he’d been forced to do so.
February 23rd, 2011 — Crime, Daphne
A man whose body was discovered Sunday in his apartment had been strangled with a pair of electrical cords by a man who had been his roommate for just a week, police said today.
Steven McCullough’s wife had been living in San Antonio for the past 6 weeks, caring for a sick relative, police spokesman Lt. Jud Beedy said Tuesday.
Carmadelle, 31, signed a confession late Monday, and law-enforcement officers charged him with capital murder, Beedy said.
February 23rd, 2011 — Crime, Daphne, Schools
A Daphne High School student is in jail after school officials say he made terrorist threats. Aaron Sims was arrested during school on Friday.
“You don’t shout ‘bomb’ in an airport, and there’s certain things you don’t say in schools,” Baldwin County Schools spokesperson Terry Wilhite said. “He made some comments that the teacher felt to be threatening.”
Officials won’t say exactly what Aaron Sims mumbled, but they do say it happened after Sims was called to the office for not being in compliance with the school’s uniform policy.
Students Cautious About What They Say After Fellow Student Lands in Jail
Daphne High student charged with making terrorist threat over uniform policy
February 21st, 2011 — Crime, Daphne
Daphne High School Principal sent this message to parents today:
… student was arrested Friday for “making a terrorist threat”. The student made extemporaneous comments after being referred to the office on a discipline matter. The school was never in any danger nor did we go into lockdown. Our administration asked our School Resource Officer (SRO) to assist and the SRO took the student to the police station. I stress to students all the time that every comment is taken seriously by the school, the district and law enforcement
February 21st, 2011 — Crime, Daphne
Daphne Police are investigating the death of a man found in his apartment Sunday as a homicide.
Steven Mccullough, 43, was found dead in his apartment at Grande Point Apartments in Lake Forest after someone called police to check on him.
February 14th, 2011 — Daphne
An Elberta man may have suffered a heart attack before his truck rolled out of a gas station parking lot and into a pillar near Ala. 181 and U.S. 90 over the weekend, according to authorities.
Daphne police and the Baldwin County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 68-year-old Andrew Lewis Lay. The accident occurred about 2:32 p.m. Saturday, according to the Coroner’s Office.
February 14th, 2011 — Crime, Daphne
February 13th, 2011 — County Government, Daphne, Spanish Fort
A controversial service road project near the intersection of Baldwin 13 and Interstate 10 “is off the table,” Rep. Randy Davis, R-Daphne, said in an e-mail Friday.
“He didn’t say that last night,” said Daphne Councilman Gus Palumbo, an outspoken opponent of the proposed service road that would link two Spanish Fort retail centers. “He was not well-received.”
Controversial Baldwin County service road loses support of state representative
February 13th, 2011 — Daphne, Spanish Fort
After city workers recently installed 15 new purple-and-gold city limit signs on the corridors leading into the municipality, the comments started coming in — and it wasn’t just Daphne officials on the receiving end.
“People have let me know about them,” Spanish Fort Mayor Joe Bonner said of Daphne’s new signs, which read at bottom “Home of the 6A State Football Champions 2001, 2010.”
Not to be outdone, AL.com creates huge headline for the story
February 13th, 2011 — Daphne, Foley, Gulf Shores, Spanish Fort
February 11th, 2011 — Daphne
Daphne residents from the TimberCreek and Lake Forest subdivisions expressed their concerns and opinions Thursday about the proposed plan to build a service road north of Interstate 10 along with an I-10 interchange at County Road 13
Residents express concern for Interstate 10 service road and support for County Road 13 interchange
