Mobile and Baldwin County News
The U.S. Justice Department awarded the Mobile County Commission $450,000 through the COPS meth program, money Sheriff Sam Cochran said would fund an awareness campaign, data analysis and enforcement over…
The Mobile Area Citizens Political Action Committee blew past its $75,000 goal, reporting $81,575 in contributions as the city campaigned for its west Mobile annexation vote like a political race.
Trip Pittman's lopsided win over Randy McKinney in the Baldwin County Senate District 32 Republican runoff raised hard questions about how much a popular governor's endorsement is actually worth.
Mobile's PowerPoint case for annexing four west Mobile areas leaned on slow police and fire response times, free city services and more than $10 million a year in new sales…
In 2007, curbside collection of post-consumer paper expanded to about 250 additional homes in western Mobile County, according to WKRG.
Archived WKRG coverage reported that a Gulf Shores child tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis in 2007, according to the county health department.
Mobile's attorneys sought summary judgment the same day a lawsuit challenged the Sept. 18 annexation vote, arguing the four areas reflect real neighborhoods and that courts should not second-guess an…
Gov. Bob Riley's decision to back Randy McKinney over Trip Pittman in a Republican runoff broke an unwritten rule and left Mobile and Baldwin Republicans debating what it cost the…
Three residents sued to stop Mobile's Sept. 18 annexation election, arguing the city drew its four voting areas to capture Schillinger Road tax revenue while stranding neighbors as unincorporated islands.
On the eve of the Baldwin County Senate District 32 runoff, political veterans offered sharply divided predictions, with negative mail and the governor's endorsement dominating the closing arguments.