Mobile and Baldwin County News
Federal officials moved in June 2006 to release $28 million for Alabama, aimed at reseeding hurricane-wrecked oyster beds and clearing debris from shrimp grounds off the Gulf Coast.
A Senate subcommittee advanced a 2007 homeland security spending bill carrying $4 million toward replacing the 14 Mile CSX railroad bridge, a chronic hazard for barge traffic on the Mobile…
The Hudson Group agreed to spend $1.5 million rebuilding food service at Mobile Regional Airport, replacing a predecessor criticized for shutting down while passengers were still in the terminal.
When a Mobile attorney sent a canned-salmon gumbo recipe to his daughter's West Coast newspaper column, his mother wrote back with a letter that doubled as a lesson in Gulf…
Car counts from the Alabama Cruise Terminal in downtown Mobile showed nearly 27,000 vehicles in the first 11 months of cruising, with passengers driving in from more than 50 states…
Contestants from every state arrived in Mobile for the 49th annual America's Junior Miss national finals, competing for $121,000 in scholarships and spending two weeks in the city that has…
In June 2006, Sen. Richard Shelby argued that the federal estate tax, scheduled to return in 2011, threatened family farms and small businesses, and pressed for permanent repeal after a…
Sam Cochran, the retired Mobile police chief and new Republican nominee for sheriff, was set to be sworn in Friday as interim Mobile County sheriff, taking over a department left…
With the June 2006 primary returns counted, the newspaper graded the anonymous insiders who had forecast the vote, handing out marks from A-minus to a blunt D in a lighthearted…
Ahead of Alabama's June 2006 party primaries, a panel of anonymous Mobile-area political insiders forecast the sheriff's race, the state Supreme Court contests and two closely watched coastal state Senate…