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: Feb. 24, 2023 at 5:04 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A federal jury on Friday failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the trial of a former Citronelle police chief accused of using excessive force on a suspect following a high-speed chase in 2021.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 11:06 AM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Thomas Earl Thomas Jr., the man accused of sparking a mass shooting in downtown Mobile on New Year’s Eve, now faces federal charges.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 7:45 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
Mobile County prosecutors on Thursday laid out a largely circumstantial case against a man charged with multiple violent offenses in three separate incidents.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 12:41 PM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
A New Orleans man convicted of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend in the head in Prichard while she was on a 911 call will go to prison for life – but will have a chance for parole.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 10:10 AM CST
|By Brendan Kirby
The man accused of sparking a mass shooting downtown during the Mobile’s New Year’s Eve celebration was defending himself from gunfire, his lawyer said Friday.
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. 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. 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: Oct. 10, 2022 at 5:59 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Five people charged with plotting to set fires to Walmart stores along the Gulf Coast engaged in “sophisticated shoplifting schemes” and financial fraud to pay their living expenses in Lillian, according to new allegations in federal court.
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. 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: 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: Jun. 23, 2022 at 12:42 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
As many as five gunmen fired more than 40 shots during an attack that resulted in the death of an 11-year-old boy last month, a police investigator testified Thursday.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 4:31 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A high-speed chase involving a stolen car and the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office ended with a fiery crash on Tuesday.
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. 30, 2022 at 2:54 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
A 13-year-old runaway reported missing last week and located in Sunday in D’Iberville, Miss., has died in an area hospital, according to the Mobile Police Department.
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