Community Corner
🌱 Woman Strangled During Robbery + Vacant House Arson
The quickest way to get caught up on the most important things happening today in Mobile.
Welcome back, Mobile! Here's everything you need to know to get this Saturday started. Here's what's going on around town today.
First, today's weather:
Partly sunny. High: 62 Low: 47.
Here are the top stories today in Mobile:
- Mobile Police responded to a report of a robbery at Inn Town Suites on Nov. 24 in Mobile.
Police determined that the robbery happened inside a vehicle after a man agreed to give a woman a ride to a hotel. Once they arrived at the hotel, the man strangled the woman and threatened to shoot her if she did not give him her belongings. (WKRG News 5) - Mobile Fire-Rescue says a woman intentionally set a vacant house on Hemley Avenue on fire on Thanksgiving eve. 36-year-old Safiya Starkey is charged with second-degree arson. At about 1 p.m. on Wednesday, crews were dispatched to 162 Hemley Ave. for reports of a vacant house on fire in the area. (WKRG News 5)
- A Mobile woman received a Thanksgiving meal after not receiving Pandemic EBT payments. (FOX10 News)
- Even before Thanksgiving, these turkeys trot together to raise dollars for Camp Rap-A-Hope. (NBC 15 WPMI)
- The newly constructed West Lake Road North in west Mobile County will be opened for travel on Wednesday, Nov. 24. (Press Release Desk)
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