Brendan Kirby
Investigative Reporter
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Brendan Kirby is a 25-year veteran journalist who previously has worked for newspapers, including the Mobile Press-Register and AL.com.
For three years, he also covered politics for a national news website.
A graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., he lives in Daphne with his wife and two children.
Brendan has lived on the Gulf Coast since 2000 and is excited about covering the region again.
Brendan’s interests include traveling, sports and history. He is the author of the 2015 book “Wicked Mobile,” which chronicles the villains and notorious events of the Port City’s 300-year-old history. A native Philadelphian, he is a devoted fan of its professional sports teams.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 5:27 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Meeting in the Port City, the mayors of Alabama’s 10 most populous cities took a cruise near the Port of Mobile and discussed issues of mutual interest.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 6:10 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Two guns that police say were used in a New Year’s Eve massing shooting downtown are illegal under federal law, but not state law. Mobile officials vow to change that.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 5:23 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
In their first application of “Aniah’s Law,” Mobile County prosecutors on Thursday asked a judge to deny bail to a man accused of a 2014 murder and kidnapping, but the defendant’s attorney argues the new law does not apply.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 4:36 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A former Citronelle police officer who admitted to beating an inmate at the city jail will not have to do prison time, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 5:30 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Amtrak, the CSX and Norfolk Southern freight railroads and the Alabama State Port Authority have reached a “conditional” agreement that will allow passenger rail service to return to the region, according to a joint announcement by the parties.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 1:13 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A fatal shooting in Mobile over the weekend resulted from a dispute between a father and his adult son and culminated with a gunshot to the back of the victim’s head as he was running away, a prosecutor said Monday.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 4:01 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
The alleged mastermind of a string of fires at Walmart stores along the Gulf Coast fled Nebraska just before he was to be sentenced on a wire fraud conviction, according to court records.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 1:43 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby and Andrew McMunn
The children were rushed to the hospital but died from smoke inhalation and related burns.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 7:42 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A young child playing with a cigarette lighter is believed to have led to the tragic fire in Irvington last week that killed two children, according to authorities.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 6:29 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A jury on Monday took 24 minutes to convict a man of first-degree robbery and second-degree assault stemming from a holdup of a convenience store in 2020.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 11:17 AM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby and Lacey Beasley
A Mississippi man pleaded guilty Monday to orchestrating a scheme to fake his own death off the coast of Orange Beach to escape a sexual battery charge.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 3:59 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - When state transportation officials award contracts for the most expensive project in Alabama history, they won’t just pick the low bidders.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:31 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A man convicted of hog-tying and suffocating his mother to death and then burying the body in Baldwin County will go to prison for the rest of his life, a judge ruled Monday.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 9:32 AM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A fired Citronelle police officer has been charged in federal court with beating an inmate at the city jail.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 10:13 AM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A proposed $2.7 billion Mobile Bay bridge and Bayway project is back on track.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 11:41 AM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A Mobile man has been charged with threatening to kill President Joe Biden.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2022 at 12:13 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
The Prichard Water Works & Sewer System here has agreed to pay as much as almost $235,000 to resolve allegations leveled by state regulators related to problems at sewage treatment plants and failures to report spills.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 6:15 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the conviction of a Mobile doctor convicted of over-prescribing painkillers.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 6:51 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Monday in favor of a convicted Mobile doctor not only likely will result in a new trial for him but could impact similar convictions, according to the physician’s lawyer.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2022 at 7:18 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
The rape trial of a former Spring Hill College student got underway Thursday with testimony from the accuser and diametrically opposing accounts from the two sides of what took place in her dorm room last year.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2022 at 10:31 AM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
The University of South Alabama police chief has been put on paid leave pending an investigation, the school said Wednesday.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2022 at 1:28 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
The governors of Alabama and Florida have signed the extradition paperwork for accused Ladd-Peebles Stadium shooter Hezekiah Kaniel Belfon, but it will be a few more weeks before he’s returned to Alabama.
Updated: May. 31, 2022 at 2:15 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Mobile police said they arrested the man who shot and killed an 11-year-old boy on Monday.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 5:02 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A teenager accused of shooting nine people at a 2019 high school football game accepted a plea bargain with prosecutors on Thursday that will allow him to leave prison in less than two years.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2022 at 6:03 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby and Jordan Gartner
A 13-year-old girl has died in a Mississippi-area hospital after being a reported runaway from Alabama earlier this month.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 at 7:18 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A federal judge has sided with Davidson High School’s former football coach in a lawsuit accusing him and others of encouraging “hazing” of players, including one incident that resulted in a broken arm.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 1:40 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Three men accused of setting fire to several area Wal-Mart stores hatched a plan to rob a bank, using an unindicted co-conspirator wearing vest made to look like it was rigged with explosives, according to an updated indictment.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 6:04 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
There was no warning for a powerful storm that descended on the Big Oak Mobile Home Park on Friday, injuring six and destroying several homes. Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson said ambulances rushed five people to the hospital, including two who had to be transferred to Mobile with critical injuries. Another resident took himself to the hospital, according to the sheriff.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2022 at 6:59 AM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Officials are investigating after school buses at McDavid-Jones Elementary School on U.S. 45 in Citronelle were burned.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2022 at 11:28 AM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A woman accused of intentionally running over her boyfriend on Interstate 10 pleaded not guilty Thursday, and a judge ordered she remain jailed without bail.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2022 at 1:00 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A former skating rink manager already serving a lengthy federal sentence pleaded guilty Monday to sexually abusing three young boys. A judge sentenced him to 30 years in prison.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 6:53 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A federal magistrate judge on Thursday granted a request by prosecutors to detain two men charged with a conspiracy to set Walmart stores on fire.
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