Brendan Kirby
Investigative Reporter

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: Oct. 24, 2023 at 11:11 AM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby and Gray News staff
Police in Alabama are investigating where the students got the drug-laced gummies.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2023 at 12:05 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby and Gray News staff
The woman, who worked as a clerk at an Alabama post office, admitted she took stacks of business checks over a roughly three-month period.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2023 at 12:15 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby and Gray News staff
Nancy Johnson’s estranged husband and her brothers are grasping for answers in the wake of the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office conclusion that she drowned her two young children and then hanged herself last week.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2023 at 6:15 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
Three weeks after a judge dismissed a drug charge, Claude Desmond Mayes still hasn’t gotten back nearly $4,000 that law enforcement officers seized during the arrest.
Updated: May. 31, 2023 at 9:47 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby and Gray News staff
The punishment delivered to Jeffery Sikes on Tuesday is twice the prison term recommended under advisory guidelines.
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. 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: 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 3:50 PM CDT
|By Brendan Kirby
An Alabama man has been charged with threatening to kill President Joe Biden.
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.