There are no statistics on how many dogs are left in unattended vehicles die every year from heat exposure because the majority of cases go unreported. But estimates are several hundred pets suffer this slow, agonizing and unnecessary fate every summer. On an 85-degree day it takes only 10 minutes for the interior of your parked car to climb to 102 degrees. In a half hour, it can reach 120 … [Read more...]
FREE GUN LOCKS OFFERED
It is such a tragedy when a child is shot and killed, but more so when a child is accidentally shot by a gun because of curiosity about the weapon. In an effort to hopefully end situations like this, there are four police departments in Mobile that offer free gun lock programs: Mobile, Satsuma, Chickasaw, and Daphne. Two of them actually have the locks ready to pick up: Mobile and Daphne. … [Read more...]
TRACTOR TRAILER TRUCK V. CAR(S) RESULTS IN FATAL INJURY ON I-10 IN MOBILE
Sadly on July 2, 2015 around 1:30 in the afternoon in the eastbound lanes of I-20 between Virginia and Broad Streets in Mobile there was a horrific accident involving an 18 wheeler and 5 other vehicles. A total of 10 people were taken to area hospitals for injuries. Tragically, one of these 10 people will never be returning home. Jaimie Witcraft, a 22 year old nursing student at The University of … [Read more...]
CONFEDERATE FLAG
Confederate Flag, should it stay or should it go?Unless you have been staying on a desert island this week with no communication to the world, everyone knows that the Confederate Flag is coming down from flagpoles all over the country. This allegedly racist flag has been a major conversation piece - especially for the State of Alabama even though the issue began because of a racist shooting in … [Read more...]
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Independence Day. Our great United States of America has made it to another mile marker and the whole country from sea to shining sea will be celebrating our independence day for the 239th year. Despite the differences of opinions over recent rulings by the U. S. Supreme Court, people should really step back a minute and say thank you (salute) to our founding fathers for these words: The … [Read more...]
HANGOUT MUSIC FESTIVAL 2015 A SUCCESS
The Hangout Music Festival (also referred to as Hangout Fest or Hangout) has come and gone again. This unique festival was founded in 2009 and began the first appearance of various performances in tents along the public beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama in 2010. Since then it has been held annually on the third weekend in May. The music varies from rock to hip hop to alternative to jam bands to … [Read more...]
TWO TEENS KILLED AND THREE OTHERS INJURED AS A RESULT OF HABITUAL SEVEN TIME DUI OFFENDER NEAR BYHALIA, MARSHALL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
More than likely if you live in the Mid-south you heard about the tragic automobile accident on May 31, 2015 that killed two teenage girls, Rachel Lynch and Maddie Kruse, (students at Briarcrest Christian School) and injured three others on Highway 78 near Byhalia, Mississippi as they were headed to a beach for vacation. They were merely passengers in a vehicle that was struck from behind by an … [Read more...]
DROWSY DRIVING
Sleep-deprived driving (commonly known as tired driving, drowsy driving or fatigued driving) is the operation of a motor vehicle while being cognitively impaired by a lack of sleep (Wikipedia.org). In Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores, Alabama at 9:00 in the morning on May 27, 2015, two bicyclist John Richard Vos (73 years old) and his wife, Augusta Forbes Vos (50 years old) (visiting from … [Read more...]