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.
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A convergence of circumstances is going to displace a Mardi Gras staple known as RV City and make Carnival balls more difficult to attend. The changes are the result of the resumption of cruises and the redevelopment of the Mobile Civic Center.
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey visited Chastang-Fournier K-8 School Wednesday to get an up-close look at one of 15 low-performing schools across the state that she singled out for special help.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office has responded to a motion to dismiss firearms charges against a convicted felon, rejecting claims by the defendant’s attorney that laws banning gun possession by felons are unconstitutional.
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A federal judge on Tuesday formally entered a $2.02 million settlement ending a sexual harassment lawsuit against the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office.
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In a rare session in the Port City, the Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday tackled a pair of court cases raising the question of whether a fertilized egg is a human life before implantation in a uterus.
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A federal judge on Monday sentenced a man accused of a mass shooting on New Year’s Eve to the maximum 10-year sentence for a federal gun violation.
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Police her got a call from dispatch on Feb. 24 of last year about a shooting at the intersection of Bigger Street and Bartley Avenue. It didn’t take long for the situation to escalate, as is evident in police body camera footage obtained by FOX10 News.
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The city of Prichard and the independent water board that serves residents there and in Chickasaw have been saying for more than a year now that they are close to settling a long-running lawsuit over fire hydrants.
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Baldwin County District Attorney Robert Wilters and Sheriff Hoss Mack have asked a judge to change his ruling compelling the Sheriff’s Office to return a car that deputies seized earlier this month.
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Facing a new indictment, accused Mobile cop killer Marco Antonio Perez will get a new shot at “youthful offender” status.
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An ex-Creola police officer accepted a plea bargain Thursday in connection with an assault on an inmate at the municipal jail in 2021.
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The prosecution and defense on Wednesday offered starkly different accounts of an altercation at a bar that escalated to a shooting involving a Mobile schoolteacher.
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This is the story of a Chevrolet Camaro. A very well-traveled 1968 Camaro. Baldwin County resident Thomas Hadley, who has owned the vehicle since 2016, got a surprise visit from the Alabama Department of Revenue last month after the Vehicle Identification Number of a car registered in Tennessee matched the number on file for Hadley’s Camaro. The investigation uncovered records of a car reported stolen from Montgomery County, Kansas, two decades ago.
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Residents in Prichard and Chickasaw soon will pay more for their water and sewer service.
Just as jury selection was getting under way for the highly anticipated capital murder trial of accused cop killer Marco Antonio Perez, a grand jury handed up a new indictment making crucial changes to the language.
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Sept. 11, 2001, is one of those dates Americans never will forget. It hits especially hard for Angelia Blunt, whose sister died that day 22 years ago.
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A man accused of shooting a teenager and firing at police in Monroeville last year will go to prison for 10 years on a pair of gun charges, a federal judge decided Friday.
The capital murder trial of accused cop killer Marco Antonio Perez kicks of this week with jury selection, a process that is expected to last two weeks.
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A federal judge on Friday rejected the prosecution recommendation of probation for former Citronelle Police Chief Tyler Norris in an excessive-force case, ordering him to go to jail for 30 days.
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At one time, Amtrak hoped to begin service along the Gulf Coast by the end of this year. Now, it appears that will not happen until well into 2024.
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A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the last of an arson ring that plotted to set fires to Walmart stores along the Gulf Coast in 2021.
A Mobile man facing federal gun charges has challenged the constitutionality of a federal statute prohibiting convicted felons from having firearms.
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A judge on Thursday found prosecutors have sufficient evidence for a grand jury to consider an indictment against a man accused of attacking former FOX10 News chief meteorologist John Edd Thompson at a gas station in Mobile.
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A corrections deputy arrested last week on a drug trafficking charge was part of a smuggling operation that may be connected to a fatal overdose at the jail, according to Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch.
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A convicted drug dealer who got a sentencing break a decade ago for assistant law enforcement investigators pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a quartet of new drug offenses.
A federal judge Tuesday gave final approval to a settlement ending a lawsuit accusing the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office of turning a blind eye to sexual harassment of female corrections deputies by prisoners.
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Carnival Cruise Line is returning to the Port City – with a deeper commitment to the city than it previously has made. The city has been without cruises for nearly a year since Carnival moved the Ecstasy in October last year.
A judge on Tuesday denied prosecutors permission to amend the indictment against an accused cop killer in Mobile in a way that would have made it easier for them to prove capital murder.
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Ever since journalist and filmmaker Ben Raines found the long-lost Clotilda slave ship in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, he has been on a one-man crusade to raise the wreckage and display it in a world-class museum.
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A Chickasaw woman accused of shooting four people outside of a bowling alley two years ago will have to stand trial on attempted murder charges, a judge has ruled.
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Thieves quickly hit a row of parked vehicles at a Mobile apartment complex early Monday, looking for open doors.
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A judge on Friday hit both sides of a capital murder case with tough questions about a prosecution request for an 11th-hour change to the indictment, but he did not immediately rule.
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A jury on Friday found a Georgia man guilty in a murder-for-hire killing of a man in Satsuma nearly three years ago.
Prosecutors have asked to amend the indictment of a Theodore man who is set to stand trial later this month on a capital murder charge – a small change in wording that could have a profound effect.
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The Mobile County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday arrested a contractor accused of failing to complete work for nearly a dozen customers.
Prosecutors have asked the judge in the Marco Antonio Perez capital murder case to order the defense not to tell jurors about his acquittal on related federal charges.
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A toll rate hike in Orange Beach announced Wednesday largely spares local residents, but some visitors complained it will further crimp vacation budgets buffeted by inflation.
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A man accused of jamming emergency communications in downtown Mobile told investigators he was targeting neighbors and did not realize his equipment was having a wider impact, according to testimony Wednesday.
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The Mobile City Council voted Tuesday to approve a management services contract for the redesign of the Civic Center that includes a requirement that 15 percent of the work go to minority-owned businesses.
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The Mobile City Council on Tuesday approved a $1.5 million contract with McDuffie Sanitation to provide trash and garbage service to newly annexed residents.
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Under pressure to release body camera footage of a fatal encounter between police and a man in Tillman's last month, city officials reiterated Tuesday that they would show the video to the man’s family – eventually.
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A tax preparer pleaded guilty in Mobile to fraud Tuesday, admitting that he submitted more than two dozen returns that contained inaccurate information leading to undeserved refunds.
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The working name of the long-awaited Amtrak train planned for the Gulf Coast is Mardi Gras Service, Visit Mobile President and CEO David Clark confirmed Monday.
Some current and former corrections officers at Mobile County Metro Jail complained Friday about a settlement resolving a sexual harassment lawsuit, but a judge suggested she is likely to approve it as is.
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The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Alabama Transportation Director John Cooper is immune from a lawsuit that challenged a bridge the state wants to build over the Intracoastal Waterway.
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A Pensacola man on Thursday pleaded guilty to defrauding illegal immigrants out of more than $2.8 million with false promises of gaining them legal residency in the United States.
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For almost 50 years, Ada Elizabeth Fritz was a Jane Doe, her body discovered in south Mobile County without hands. Investigators at the time were not able to identify her through conventional means, and when tips turned into dead ends, the case got shelved.
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Intense heat in the Port City this summer has ignited a spike in heat-related emergency calls.
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The Alabama Ethics Commission has voted to refer a complaint against a Mobile police officer to the District Attorney’s Office.
Mobile County prosecutors on Tuesday agreed not to use statements that capital murder defendant Marco Antonio Perez made after asking for a lawyer on the day police arrested him.
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