Mobile and Baldwin County News
News from Gulf Shores in Baldwin County, Alabama.
Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine was under psychiatric care at Mobile Infirmary as Baldwin County detectives worked to determine how Angel Downs died outside her Gulf Shores townhouse.
As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spread across the Gulf, organizers of the brand-new Hangout Beach, Music and Arts Festival in Gulf Shores announced all profits from its inaugural weekend…
Days before the first Hangout Music Festival opened in Gulf Shores in May 2010, organizers replaced the Flaming Lips, sidelined by multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd's illness, with the Roots — a…
Organizers of the inaugural Hangout Music Festival have released the first wave of performers for the new three-day event, set to bring a major touring festival to the beach in…
Alabama's senior senator broke with the Federal Reserve chairman he once supported, arguing that Ben Bernanke helped inflate the housing bubble that wrecked Gulf Coast home values and bank balance…
Baldwin County writer Karen Bonvillain has published her debut novel, “Who Was Benny Looter,” a mystery that opens with a body uncovered on the sand in Gulf Shores and follows…
Baldwin County trop rock singer-songwriter Brent Burns has picked up a Just Plain Folks Music Award for Best Novelty Song, adding another honor to a career built around writing about…
Marty Connors, former chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, argued that Republicans could not credibly attack federal spending without first admitting how much of it they had authorized themselves.
A national oral history project came to Mobile's libraries, students organized a global warming teach-in at South Alabama, tourism officials courted snowbirds, and the Navco Road bridge neared reopening.
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.