Kyle Hamrick 🖊

Chicken-scratch reporter covering Mobile Bay happenings and Alabama politics for @LagniappeMobile

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Mobile mayoral candidate Barbara Drummond denied having anything to do with a recent mailer calling opponent Spiro Cheriogotis a “MAGA Republican,” but her campaign finance reports show she received in-kind contributions from the Montgomery political ...
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The Most Rev. Mark Rivituso became Mobile’s third archbishop and 10th bishop during a special Mass Wednesday downtown. Speaking for the first time from the Port City’s oldest pulpit, the St. Louis native said he is excited... https://t.co/qsyFIhsXU5

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Audio of body camera videos recorded by the Orange Beach police officers who responded to a domestic violence incident at the city’s Coastal Resources Building confirms Mayor Tony Kennon said he and his wife use the office as a “getaway on the weekends.”https://t.co/TejpQyXxnD

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Small business owners on Pinehill Drive say an ongoing Mobile Area Water & Sewer System project caught them by surprise when it began last fall and claim the work is going on far too long, damaging their properties and their bottom lines.
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Mobile City Councilman William Carroll called on his colleagues Tuesday to kill a controversial deal to sell city-owned land worth more than $300,000 to the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association (MAMGA) for $1. https://t.co/pduTpTQMhN

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@faith_hezel Me, too

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Police records detailing Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon’s infamous altercation at The Flora-Bama Lounge six years ago reveal he called an on-duty Orange Beach police officer at 2 a.m. to taxi him and his wife home from the beachfront bar and drastically... https://t.co/45X02MBy0j

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The idea to honor the Mobile Civic Center with a Mardi Gras throw hit Mark Calametti and Tyler Richardson out of nowhere, just like the popular foam bricks they created and doled out to parading societies this Carnival season.
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During his weekly Facebook broadcast, Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon promised he has never done anything “that would be considered illegal or unethical” while continuing to ignore Lagniappe’s questions about his second office...
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In the wee hours of Labor Day last year, an employee of the Pleasure Island Tiki Bar told Orange Beach police in the restaurant’s parking lot she had just seen a naked man on the balcony of the city’s Coastal Resources building across the nearby canal... https://t.co/CUvE2NHN3L

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Outgoing Mobile Archbishop Thomas Rodi welcomed his successor, the Most Rev. Mark Rivituso, to Mobile Tuesday morning. Rivituso said he hopes to continue Rodi’s legacy as “a wonderful shepherd” while widening the Catholic Church’s outreach in the Port City.https://t.co/VS8DpH0YVi

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This is the third time in three years that coastal Alabama beachgoers have discovered packages of cocaine washed up on the shore in the summer.
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The girlfriend of the Mobile man charged in a deadly shooting at the Saenger Theatre and a Mobile police detective testified in court Wednesday about the argument that interrupted a dance recital and led to the death of Carl Williams III earlier this month
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With the family of Carl Williams III watching, Marcus Sanders pleaded ‘not guilty’ Wednesday morning to charges he fatally shot Williams and injured a bystander during a dance recital at the Saenger Theatre.
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The world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will be dismantled in Mobile after the U.S. Navy awarded a $536 million contract to NorthStar Maritime Dismantlement Services on Friday.
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Mobile Bay fishermen said new tariffs on shrimp imported from Asia and South America are already helping, but agreed it will take years for Alabama’s shrimping industry to recover from decades of investment in foreign seafood.https://t.co/hr6RwoLPBx

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And to think they announced this AFTER I renewed mine!

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UA announced this morning it’s bringing back the classic ‘Vault A’ Alabama logo on its newest collegiate license plate.

They will be available June 1.

Thoughts?

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Over the summer, sea turtles will swim from all around the Gulf to lay their eggs in the same Alabama sands from which they hatched years ago. No one knows how many nests the majestic reptiles will make, but researchers are hopeful for a fruitful season. https://t.co/Pu57KDgMf0

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Alabama may be once again required to submit its congressional voting districts to the U.S. Department of Justice for approval after a federal court ruled the state legislature violated the Voting Rights Act. https://t.co/VZACd6YXBL

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The Alabama Senate approved a bill to notify beachgoers in Mobile or Baldwin counties of statistically rare shark attacks with an Amber Alert-style notification, sending it to Gov. Kay Ivey to become law despite an effort to include shark sightings.
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