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- Prichard man pleads guilty to assault in shooting of Eight Mile man
Terrance Hatfield of Prichard now faces a minimum of 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in February for first-degree assault in the shooting of an Eight Mile man in early 2008.
- Chizik lands huge win in retaining Coleman
Todd Van Emst, Auburn U. Coleman celebrates a sack of Tennessee quarterback Jonathan Crompton earlier this year.
- Mobile police: Child hit by stray New Year's bullet
A 7-year-old girl was taken to the University of South Alabama's Children's & Women's Hospital after what police describe as a stray bullet from celebratory gunfire struck her in the leg Thursday.
- Street culture hinders police
It didn't take long for confidential informants and community members to give Prichard police a name after two people, one of whom later died, were found last month shot in their car, police said.
- Josh Lawshe Funeral
December 22 - A family in Prichard's Indian Hills community will say goodbye to a teenager who's life was cut short by murder.
- Teen Murder Linked To Gangs?
Dec. 18 - Was a local teen gunned down because he wanted out of a gang? Prichard Police say Josh Lawshe, 17, and a 15-year-old girl were shot in a home on Gaynor Road in Eight Mile.
- Pedestrian Killed In Early Morning Accident
Dec. 18 -- An accident Thursday morning leaves a pedestrian dead. Prichard Police say a 29-year-old man was hit by a car on St.
- Jury weighs discrimination allegations against Prichard, Ala.
A federal jury here deliberated for a little more than two hours today about whether Prichard's decision to offer Yvonne Baldwin a two-year contract to serve as police chief amounted to age and gender ...
- Teen Suspects Arrested in Prichard Shooting
December 17 - Three teen suspects have been arrested in connection to a shooting Wednesday on Gaynor Road in the Eight Mile area.
- Prichard teen shot to death, his girldfriend injured in gunfire
A neighbor said she "walked into a bloody mess" when she found 17-year-old Joshua Lawshe shot to death in his kitchen doorway today.
- The payroll account for Prichard, Ala., partially frozen
Prichard's payroll account has been partially frozen because the city failed to pay damages after a judge ruled it improperly burned down an 85-year-old woman's property.
- 2 Mobile men and Prichard man arrested on drug-related charges after Mill Street raid
Mobile police arrested three men on drug related charges and confiscated 18 pounds of marijuana during a raid Monday at a home in the 2000 block of Mill Street in the Crichton area, authorities said.
- Family Mourns The Death Of 23 Year Old Chad Land
December 13 - A local family continues to mourn after a father is found shot to death in his car.
- ThyssenKrupp job fair draws crowd
As the doors to the ThyssenKrupp Jobs Fair opened Tuesday afternoon, crowds of applicants were stacked out into the misting rain and down the sidewalk.
- ThyssenKrupp Job Fair Next Tuesday
December 10 - While thousands of companies are laying off employees, Thyssenkrupp is actually looking for about two thousand people to work its Mobile County plant.
- Family recalls harrowing night of rape, sodomy in Prichard home
A Prichard family told a Mobile jury today that Marvin Lee Daniels broke into the bedroom where a mother and her 4 children slept, then sexually attacked her and a teenager daughter.
- Steel maker annnouces job fairs in S.W. Ala.
ThyssenKrupp Steel will host job fairs in Baldwin and Mobile counties. The company said job seekers interested in professional or hourly positions are invited to attend its job fair Tuesday at the Baldwin ...
- Prichard homicide victim identified in Whistler community slaying
A man shot to death in his house in the Whistler community on Saturday has been identified as Melvin Devan Niles, according to police records.
- Prichard police: Man shot inside his Warren Street home
A 43-year-old man was shot to death early this morning inside his home in the 2000 block of Warren Street, Prichard police said.
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City DescriptionPrichard is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, in the United States.
Prichard borders the northside of Mobile, as well as the Mobile suburbs of Chickasaw, Alabama, Saraland, Alabama, and the unincorporated sections of Eight Mile, Alabama. As of 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 27,963. It is a part of the Mobile metropolitan statistical area.
Prichard began as a settlement in the 1830s bordering Telegraph Road (known now as U.S. Highway 43) It remained largely unsettled until the Clotilde landed in Mobile Bay prior to the Civil War. Africatown evolved into a greater part of the Plateau/Magazine area which developed along Telegraph Road, and eventually, Plateau and Magazine had their territory split between Mobile and Prichard.
After 1900, Prichard began a slow and steady development. In 1925, Prichard was incorporated as a city during World War II Prichard became a company town as many Mobile shipbuilding companies built homes for their workers in Prichard. During the 1950s and 60's, Prichard annexed historic Whistler as well as parts of Eight Mile, Alabama and Kushla. The 40's and 50's saw phenomenal growth in the Mobile area, and Mobile, Prichard and ... Read MoreCity Contained By:Timezones:Size:
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