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: Dec. 2, 2022 at 6:38 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Mobile police investigating complaints of a scam traced payments to an address on Basil Street in 2018 and charged a woman who lived there with financial exploitation of an elderly person. A judge found probable cause to send the charge to a grand jury, but then the case stalled. In the four years since, there has been no indictment. Now, she is facing charges again.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 6:33 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Months after a missing 14-year-old girl from Mobile turned up at a Mississippi motel and then died at a hospital, investigators still cannot determine how she died.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 6:15 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Spring Hill College police on Wednesay continued to investigate a rare holdup on the typically quiet campus, while some students accused the school of a lack of urgency in fixing malfunctioning electronic key cards.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 6:38 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
The City Council on Tuesday adopted an overall master plan for the Mobile Civic Center that leaves many of the details for a later date.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 1:24 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A judge Tuesday thew out attempted murder charges against a man accused of shooting at a pair of police officers, finding prosecutors had not presented sufficient evidence linking him to the crime.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 7:07 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A Mobile man convicted of murder last month will get a do-over, a judge ruled Monday.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 5:57 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A fatal shooting outside of a convenience store on Pecan Street in Mobile came after an earlier confrontation with the victim’s sister, according to testimony at a preliminary hearing Monday.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 4:35 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Mississippi man to 21 months in prison for faking his own death, but it will not affect his overall punishment.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 2:39 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A fatal shooting at a convenience store in Theodore in September followed a videotaped fight between the alleged murderer and the victim at a gas station earlier that day, an investigator testified Monday.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 5:34 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
In announcing indictments in her long-running probe into corruption at the Prichard Water Works & Sewer Board, Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich on Friday linked alleged misuse of funds to the utility’s financial troubles.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 3:47 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A jury convicted David Cordero-Hernandez last month of murder, but the judge who presided over the trial is mulling a request to throw out the conviction.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 7:30 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A Foley-area man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal gun charge, admitting that he illegally sold a gun without a federal firearms license.
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: Nov. 22, 2022 at 2:25 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A Mobile County prosecutor on Tuesday said Zachery Hannah would be a prime candidate for a no-bail order under a constitutional amendment approved by voters this month. Just one problem – Aniah’s Law has not yet officially taken effect.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 1:14 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Of all the people charged in southwest Alabama with defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program, Jason Carl Pears likely got the most money.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 6:14 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A Mobile County grand jury on Thursday indicted the former Prichard water board operations manager and her husband on charges related to misuse of utility funds.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 6:09 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A California man pulled over in Mobile last month with three packages of fentanyl told investigators he had been paid $10,000 to move drugs but insisted he did not know what kind of drugs they were, according to testimony Thursday.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 12:30 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A 16-year-old accused of shooting a Mobile convenience store owner during a robbery in September confessed to the crime and told investigators that his alleged accomplice directed him to do so, an investigator testified Thursday.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 7:18 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
The Prichard water board has decided to forego a system upgrade and pay a fine instead.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 6:49 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A Prichard man who admitted to brandishing a gun during a holdup of a Subway restaurant in 2019 got seven years in prison Wednesday.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 6:21 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A Mobile man already time for staging a fake robbery of the Brink’s armored vehicle he was driving now will do eight more months.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 5:59 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A man accused of killing an apartment dweller while aiming for someone else pleaded guilty to murder Wednesday.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 12:56 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
After an emotionally wrenching sentencing hearing, a Mobile County judge on Wednesday imposed a sentence that will allow a drug-impaired driver responsible for a fatal car wreck to get out of jail in about six months.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 1:23 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A 13-year-old Mobile boy shot to death in October told the Department of Human Resources he felt unsafe in the home, a police investigator testified Tuesday.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 12:28 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Over the prosecution’s objections, a judge on Tuesday reduced bail for a Mobile man accused of beating another man to death with a shovel.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 12:07 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
As his murder trial was getting under way, a Mobile man accused in the 2007 death of a teenager agreed to a plea bargain Tuesday that paves the way for the prosecution of his co-defendant.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 5:46 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Alabama’s latest list of “failing” schools names eight in Mobile County, but officials highlighted improvement from previous assessments.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2022 at 6:06 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
The weather was perfect and the crowd enthusiastic Friday as the Blue Angels celebrated Veterans Day with their patented, death defying acrobatics.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 6:21 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
During COVID-19, the flu took a break. Now, it’s back with a vengeance and hitting with a ferocity not seen since 2009.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 5:52 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A Mobile man accused of threatening to “put a bullet” in President Joe Biden’s head is not competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 5:43 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Daphne police investigating a string of break-ins over the weekend may have caught a big break.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 10:35 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Cruising to an expectedly comfortable victory on Tuesday, Republican Katie Britt pledged to be a “mama on mission” for Alabama families.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 6:54 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Top Mobile County leaders on Wednesday urged voters to approve a constitutional amendment they contend would stop the “revolving door” that turns criminals back on the street, but bond records suggest judges already have more power than they use.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 5:24 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
It took a Mobile County jury a little more than an hour Wednesday to convict a New Orleans man of murder in the death of his girlfriend in 2019.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 12:37 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson and the city’s law enforcement leaders on Wednesday urged voters to approve a constitutional amendment they contend will help reduce the “revolving door” of crime.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 6:41 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Long-simmering tensions over Mayor Sandy Stimpson’s push to expand the city limits boiled over Tuesday, with two black city councilmen citing race as a leading factor.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 2:49 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Mobile police exercised restraint during Monday’s six-hour standoff on Government Street, trying to talk the armed man down – even refraining from returning fire when he fired a shot out of the rear-passenger side car where he was holed up.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 11:04 AM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson on Tuesday praised the performance of police and paramedics who responded to a six-hour standoff that disrupted business at Government Plaza for six hours on Monday.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2022 at 8:25 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A man facing charges in connection with a convenience store shooting will do two years in federal judge on a gun charge, a judge ruled Monday.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2022 at 8:08 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A woman who admitted to embezzling more than $276,000 will go to prison for 2½ years, a federal judge decided Monday.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2022 at 6:43 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
The candidates vying to replace outgoing Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich both vow to target violent crime, but they have starkly different philosophies about how to go about it.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2022 at 5:29 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A judge has denied an Escambia County capital murder defendant’s request that he throw out the charges based on the false testimony of a law enforcement investigators.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 4:15 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A judge on Thursday denied a request by prosecutors to revoke the bond of a man convicted last week of murder in Mobile.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 2:32 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A suspended Mobile County judge has resolved a judicial ethics complaint against him and will resume his duties next week, court officials confirmed Thursday.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 12:08 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Law enforcement investigators violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights of a Daphne man accused of having child pornography, the defense argued in a court filing this week.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 6:04 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A man shot a burglar who was taking items from his house and detached garage on North Ann Street, police said Wednesday.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 4:40 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A mid-trial plea bargain in the capital murder trial of Markeise Kardell Caldwell on Wednesday offers certainty to both sides in the high-stakes death penalty case.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 11:48 AM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
An obviously distraught Markeise Kardell Caldwell can be heard fighting back tears as he talks to a police officer following the death of his then-girlfriend’s baby in May 2018.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 4:21 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
The alleged mastermind of a string of fires at Walmart locations along the Gulf Coast pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 3:48 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Touring Austal USA’s shipyard and the Airbus plant, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) warned that a lack of work ethic is hurting businesses and leading the nation down the path of socialism.
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