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It was fifty years ago today that Mobile native Hank Aaron hit his record breaking 715th home run, which surpassed Yankees’ legend Babe Ruth. Atlanta Braves fan Charlie Russo was there to watch “hammerin’ Hank” do it.

The City of Mobile’s Spring Movies in the Park gets underway tomorrow with some heroes in a half shell. The Figures Community Center will feature the film Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles to start off the series.

A container ship struck a major bridge in Baltimore, causing it to plunge into the river below. The World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure says between 1960 to 2015, there were 35 major bridge collapses worldwide due to ship or barge collision. Those accident included a total of 342 people killed. Eighteen of those collapses happened in the United States, with one in Alabama

A corporation along the Alabama Gulf Coast has been donating to local businesses in the area. 68 Ventures is a veteran-owned business headquartered in Daphne that serves as a parent company to several businesses along the Gulf Coast which focus on development, investment and construction.

Last Sunday afternoon, hundreds of people gathered in downtown Mobile to remember Jimmy Buffett, who died Saturday, September 2nd. The memorial included most celebrants wearing colorful Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts, flowered leis and hats topped with parrots or shark fins.

From Key West, Florida, and beyond, the world became an extension of Jimmy Buffett's musical kingdom of "Margaritaville." With the passing of the beach-bum balladeer at the age of 76, legions of his fans are celebrating the music he left behind.

Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavored song "Margaritaville" and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, has died. The Mobile native was 76.

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that the state can continue work on a new bridge that will give motorists an alternate route to state beaches.

Mobile Bay Green Drinks is a group that meets once a month to discuss environmental issues in the state. The local chapter is one of many that meet across the world. For Mobile Bay, these meetings are a great chance to have a drink with leaders of organizations such as The Alabama Coastal Foundation and state Commissioner, Chris Blankenship. Blankenship will be a speaker for this month’s meeting.

National Health Center Week begins today (Monday, August 7th). The Mobile County Health Department is working with its primary care division, Family Health, on the campaign. Saturday is Children's Health Day focusing on students going back to school and the immunizations that go with it.