Mobile and Baldwin County News
Partisanship in Montgomery had rarely been nastier. So how many Mobile-area Democrats and Republicans had never once voted for the other side? Asked directly, remarkably few could claim it.
Mobile oilman Bart Chamberlain Jr. died in the Bahamas at 93, having fled the country rather than pay a $19.4 million judgment. A 1989 letter to his employees laid out…
City council members, a district attorney and a state senator weighed in on the 2008 field. Rudy Giuliani drew the most support in Mobile, but not everyone in his own…
With the 2008 field still forming, local officeholders, lawyers and pundits named their favorites. A state representative was co-chairing John McCain's Mobile County campaign; a famous oddsmaker had already called…
Retired Marine general and banker J. Gary Cooper resigned from the University of South Alabama's capital campaign, accusing the school of neglecting the Black community. President Gordon Moulton answered point…
Montrose businessman Trip Pittman announced a Republican campaign for the Alabama Senate seat left open when Bradley Byrne took over the state's two-year college system, with the primary set for…
State Sen. Charles Bishop was publicly condemned for punching a Democratic colleague on the Alabama Senate floor. At a Republican dinner in Birmingham, he got a standing ovation, and Mobile…
With 29,000 construction workers expected for a $3.7 billion steel mill in north Mobile County, a former Mobile mayor floated an unusual fix: haul surplus FEMA trailers to a planned…
A routine trip to a Government Street car wash turned into a life-or-death ordeal for Mobile attorney Richard Mather, who was forced into the trunk of his own Volvo at…
The former state senator and Baldwin County commissioner from Magnolia Springs entered the District 32 special election, campaigning on family values, opposition to gambling and managed growth.