Mobile and Baldwin County News
News from Orange Beach in Baldwin County, Alabama.
Peter Gounares, 35, announced a Republican primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, arguing the incumbent had abandoned fiscal conservatism. Mobile oddsmaker Danny Sheridan called the newcomer a huge underdog.
Orange Beach police made 147 arrests, mostly for minor drug and alcohol offenses, during a three-night Widespread Panic run at The Wharf's amphitheater in 2008.
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.
A $30 million engineering center at South Alabama, a NOAA disaster response center on the Gulf, oyster bed reseeding and hurricane monitoring were among the projects approved in the 2008…