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The Call News, established in 1897, is dedicated to promoting south Washington and north Mobile counties in Alabama. This weekly publication provides readers with information daily newspapers often overlook. The Call News is unique because it is the only newspaper in the Mobile County and Washington County areas that provides free non-business classifieds, free community news and photo submissions

and 100 percent local news. In addition to special features, the Call News staff is committed to bringing the latest news and sports articles as well as historical stories that allow readers to reminisce about the past and strengthen community pride. The stories we publish analyze community problems, get readers talking and offer solutions. Few publications make such contributions to the community and maintain such a
devoted readership.

14/02/2025

      MONTGOMERY — Wetumpka spent an evening with McGill-Toolen’s defense that was about as pleasant as having one’s toenails yanked off with some rusty pliers and limped out of Garrett Coliseum with a 49-35 defeat in the Class 6A South Regional semifinals Thursday night. Baylor Dumont was ...

14/02/2025

  By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — McGill-Toolen’s girls saw Pike Road take a blowtorch to a 12-point lead but held the Patriots scoreless in overtime and extracted a 39-33 victory Thursday night in the Class 6A South Regional at Garrett Coliseum. The Yellow Jackets (23-6) won their 14th straight...

14/02/2025

  By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Not long ago, Theodore and Park Crossing seemed to be heading the wrong way at a crossroads in their seasons. The Bobcats were 6-8 and the Thunderbirds were 7-15 and it seemed neither would even make it out of their area tournaments, much less reach the Class 6A S...

14/02/2025

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Murphy’s girls gave one of the more respectable efforts this season against No. 1-ranked Park Crossing in a 56-32 loss to the No. 1-ranked Thunderbirds in the Class 6A South Regional semifinals Thursday at Garrett Coliseum. Park Crossing (31-1), which hasn’...

13/02/2025

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Vigor coach Lee Riley leaned up against a brick wall outside his team’s locker room, exhaled deeply, squirted some water in his mouth and uttered, “Ten deep.” He wasn’t referring to the sizable hole his Wolves found themselves in when they trailed Carro...

13/02/2025

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — The last time Vigor’s girls were in Garrett Coliseum, they lost a controversial game in which an apparent scoring error deprived them of victory. On Thursday, the Wolves weren’t going to let it be close enough to be decided by anyone other than themselves. ...

13/02/2025

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — LeFlore’s Kieman Smith-Franklin didn’t have the best game of his life in the first 32 minutes of regulation Thursday but that changed in four minutes of overtime. If not for his blocked shot on one end of the court and his game-winning lay-in on the other e...

13/02/2025

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — UMS-Wright eighth-grade point guard Ava Davidson has plenty of game but that is not why Bulldogs coach Terry Canova has put the ball in her hands. “When you’re an eighth grader and you have the opportunity to play with some alphas, some older kids, some big...

13/02/2025

    MONTGOMERY — Teams who have had their entrails torn out by Jackson’s basketball team this season have often fought back in the only way they can, with an insult. Some opponents claim all the Aggies can do is dunk, which they certainly can do, and perhaps that is what you say when you…

This week's business of the week feature is Mike's Hometown Furniture & Appliance! Support your hometown business!
12/02/2025

This week's business of the week feature is Mike's Hometown Furniture & Appliance!
Support your hometown business!

12/02/2025

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Mobile Christian bandaged itself up as well as it could after the loss of its best all-around player but faded over the final four minutes and lost to No. 5-ranked Houston Academy 68-64 Wednesday in the Class 3A South Regional semifinals at Garrett Coliseum. So...

12/02/2025

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Trenity Jenkins-Gaines scored 17 points and Mobile Christian’s perplexing defense held Northside Methodist to only 21% shooting in a 56-27 victory Wednesday in the Class 3A South Regional girls semifinals at Garrett Coliseum. The Leopards (16-6) advanced i...

In today's Call News, read about the retirement of legendary UMS-Wright football coach Terry Curtis, a new $1.2 billion ...
12/02/2025

In today's Call News, read about the retirement of legendary UMS-Wright football coach Terry Curtis, a new $1.2 billion steel mill in Calvert and an update on a man arrested as an accessory to a triple murder at a State Line convenience store.

In today's Call News sports section, read about upset victories for the Mary Montgomery and LeFlore boys in sub-regional...
12/02/2025

In today's Call News sports section, read about upset victories for the Mary Montgomery and LeFlore boys in sub-regional play, comprehensive coverage of the basketball postseason and a flurry of football signings, including 17 from Vigor and Saraland's C.D. Gill and Santae McWilliams, giving the Spartans 58 signees in 12 seasons.

12/02/2025

    MOBILE — There is nothing ornate about the sign that informs you that you have arrived at the office of a great man who was not only a football coach but who fully defined and lived the title, who won not with brute force and overwhelming talent but routinely got into the heads…

12/02/2025

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD Pearce Boone had 26 points and 10 rebounds and No. 1-ranked Providence Christian led most of the way in a 73-61 win over Clarke County Tuesday night in the Class 2A South Regional semifinals at Montgomery’s Garrett Coliseum. TaMyus Pugh and Justavian Crayton scored 12 point...

12/02/2025

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD Annabeth Townsend scored 22 points and Providence Christian went on an 18-5 run in the fourth period to beat Clarke County’s girls 49-43 Tuesday in the Class 2A South Regional semifinals at Montgomery’s Garrett Coliseum. Jayla Horn scored 13 points, Aleah Watkins 12 and J...

12/02/2025

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD Chauncey Dixon had 25 points and 11 rebounds and McIntosh’s girls closed with a 9-0 run over the final 2:40 of the game to upset No. 4-ranked Kinston 49-41 Tuesday in the Class 1A South Regional semifinals at Garrett Coliseum in Montgomery. Dixon made 9 of 17 field goals an...

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