A 27-year-old Citronelle man will serve 10 years in state prison and register as a sex offender after a Washington County jury convicted him of soliciting an undercover officer posing as a 12-year-old child.
Category: Citronelle
News from Citronelle in Mobile County, Alabama.
Baldwin County
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Turnout Runs ‘Extremely Low’ Across Mobile County on Primary Day
Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis reported light voter participation at polling places from Citronelle to Saraland as Alabamians voted in party primaries, while campaigns readied election night gatherings across the city.
Bayou La Batre
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Tim James Challenges Byrne to Debates, Opens Mobile HQ with Four Mayors Behind Him
James demanded a series of public debates as attack ads roiled the Republican primary, then opened a Mobile headquarters flanked by the mayors of Satsuma, Citronelle, Bayou La Batre and Chickasaw.
Atmore
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Republicans Fight Over Their Own Ballot in the District 22 Senate Special Election
A challenge to keep Citronelle businesswoman Judy Belk off the Republican ballot failed on a split vote, as three GOP contenders lined up for the seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Pat Lindsey.
Brewton
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Judy Belk Entered the District 22 Senate Race as a Republican; Sheldon Day Stepped Aside
The special election to succeed the late state Sen. Pat Lindsey took shape in February 2009, with Citronelle’s Judy McCain Belk running as a Republican and Thomasville Mayor Sheldon Day declining to enter.
Bayou La Batre
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All Politics Is Local: Previewing Mobile County’s August Municipal Elections
From Saraland to Bayou La Batre, voters across Mobile County prepared to choose mayors and council members on Aug. 26, with runoffs to follow. Seasoned observers offered their reading of the races.
Citronelle
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As Qualifying Closed, Career Employees Lined Up to Run the Offices They Worked In
The license and revenue commissioner races filled with insiders — a chief clerk, a longtime appraiser, a commissioner’s secretary — while a former sheriff’s candidate weighed one more run.
Citronelle
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Black Bart’s Strategic Retreat: The Christmas Letter of a Mobile Oilman in Exile
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 his version of the fight.
Citronelle
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A Courthouse Reshuffle Looms: 40-Year Judge to Retire, Challengers Line Up
The pending retirement of Circuit Judge Ferrill D. McRae after four decades on the bench set off a scramble among Mobile attorneys, while other courthouse offices drew challengers for 2006.
Citronelle
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A Mother’s Notes to a Son: An Election, a Wedding, and a Mobile Household in 2004
A collection of e-mails from a Mobile mother to her grown son captures the 2004 election season as it was lived in one Alabama household: gloom, gallows humor, wedding logistics and a great deal of wine.