Mobile and Baldwin County News
The Southern Circuit tour of independent filmmakers closes at Mobile's Ben May Main Library with a documentary about a Black student's run for homecoming queen against the University of Alabama's…
Federal stimulus dollars are set to resurface Springhill Avenue from I-65 to Municipal Park. A councilwoman wants to add median landscaping and turn the stretch into a proper entrance to…
Reports circulated that the Gulf Coast Classic was nearing a three-year, $1.5 million title sponsorship, badly needed good news for an event that survived a bruising fight over Mobile city…
Not every house fire in Mobile is an accident. Some are set by firefighters, with the owner watching and a tax deduction waiting. The department is also quietly planning for…
A Tampa newspaper report that the Senior Bowl might leave Mobile set off a firestorm. With the Ladd-Peebles lease expired and city funding denied twice, the timing looked less like…
The Baldwin County School Board voted unanimously in 2009 to close the Alternative School in Fairhope while delaying a decision on Vaughn Elementary in Stockton.
Mobile County school leaders said in March 2009 that some proposed campus closures or consolidations could be reconsidered after public hearings and funding news.
A one-day boutique at Bel Air Mall handed out roughly 300 free prom dresses to girls from Mobile, Fairhope, Loxley, Gulf Shores and as far away as New Orleans. Only…
Two members of the Mobile County Democratic Executive Committee wrote to say a late-campaign $8,500 'pass-through' from the state party should never have moved without a committee vote.
In March 2009, Senior Bowl leaders said the event had not entered exclusive talks with Tampa but was considering interest from other cities as Mobile's contract expired.