NEW ORLEANS (KTRK) -- A sheriff's captain says a 10-year-old Missouri boy has died on the Alabama coast after being fatally struck by a log washed in by the storm surge from Tropical Storm Cindy.

What people have called “the hermit hut” or “hermit house” is a round, 14-foot-diameter, concrete home with a domed roof.

Home prices in Mobile saw some of the steepest downturns of any other urban metro, falling by 1.4%, or around $2,700, on ...