Community Corner
🌱 Violent Road Rage Incident + Pedestrian Struck and Killed
Your five-minute guide to the most important things happening around town today.
Rise and shine, Mobile! Let's get you started this Friday with everything you need to know going on today in Mobile.
First, today's weather:
Humid with partial sunshine. High: 86 Low: 68.
Here are the top stories today in Mobile:
- A woman stated a gun was pulled on her during a road rage incident in Mobile. The victim was with her 16-year-old daughter when another woman, with whom she'd exchanged words at a red light, followed her into the JoAnn's Fabric parking lot. She waited for the woman to get out of her car before pulling out a gun and threatening her. (WKRG News 5)
- A man was struck and killed near I-65 in Mobile on Wednesday night. At approximately 9:19 p.m., police officers responded to the area of I-65 Southbound between Dauphin Street and Airport Boulevard. The Traffic Homicide Investigators determined the victim was walking on I-65 Southbound on the yellow line of the left lane when he was struck. He was pronounced dead on the scene. (NBC 15 WPMI)
- The Mobile Housing Authority will not be evicting people for unpaid rent "at this time," so long as tenants follow a few steps to keep their housing. (WKRG News 5)
- Mobile and Baldwin County restaurants are dealing with lingering staffing shortages and supply problems. (NBC 15 WPMI)
- A popular plan by three Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science faculty will the offer the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) atmospheric measuring instruments and equipment to other atmospheric researchers. (UAH)
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