'They're really in a dire situation:' Mobile to give $1.1 million to DA's office to help with staffing

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile City Council is expected to take up a measure to appropriate $1.1 million a year to the District Attorney’s Office. It is the state’s responsibility to help fund Alabama’s local district attorney offices, but since the COVID-19 pandemic, District Attorney Keith Blackwood’s office has been backed up with criminal [...]