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For those with an outstanding warrant for a nonviolent misdemeanor, the City of Mobile may have a way for offenders to take care of it without the risk of being arrested. The city's Legal Department and Municipal Court are partnering with the non-profit Growing Real Alternatives Everywhere (GRAE) to host a Warrant Clinic.
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Mobile City Councilman Cory Penn and Mobile's Executive Director of Public Safety, Rob Lasky, will host a second public forum focused on violence prevention on Saturday, March 2.
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An Alabama city councilman has pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor shoplifting. Huntsville City Council member Devyn Keith agreed to a plea deal Tuesday just as his trial was set to begin. Keith was arrested in February and faced four charges regarding stolen merchandise from three Walmart stores.
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Police said that arrest warrants have been issued in connection with a riverfront brawl in Alabama's capital that drew international media attention after video showed a group of white people pummeling a Black riverboat worker, an exchange that sparked a massive fight.
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Authorities in the city of Hoover said they filed criminal charges against a woman who confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of an interstate highway.
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A U.S. judge has agreed to delay Joran Van der Sloot's extortion trial until the fall to give him more time to prepare a defense or decide if he wants to enter a guilty plea.
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A Peruvian judge affirmed this week's planned extradition to the U.S. of the main suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway. The judge's ruling came less than 24 hours after the attorney for Dutchman Joran van der Sloot filed a writ of habeas corpus in an attempt to stop the custody transfer. Magistrate Elmer Morales informed the suspect of his decision in writing.
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The lawyer for the main suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on Monday said his client has changed his mind and plans to challenge his extradition to the United States.
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The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru's capital ahead of his pending extradition to the United States to face charges linked to her vanishing, officials said.
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The former executive director of a career education program in Alabama faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling money