Mobile and Baldwin County News
News from Mobile County, Alabama and its communities.
A Mobile County commentary renews the case for a full-scale regional transit system, arguing that expanded bus service would pay for itself as gas prices and traffic push more residents…
Watching Jimmy Buffett trade stories with David Letterman on national television is a reminder of something Mobile has been slow to act on: the city has yet to formally honor…
Mobile County Commissioner Mike Dean and School Board President Fleet Belle have each faced public criticism, Dean over unfulfilled promises on private road repairs and Belle over federal tax liens…
Mobile school officials said in May 2008 that some previously laid-off teachers, particularly in hard-to-fill subjects, were being reassigned to classrooms.
A 2008 ranking assessed Mobile's heart-health environment for women using factors including smoking, obesity, exercise and access to care.
In May 2008, Mobile County Public Schools officials said the state education budget debate could lead to additional local cuts after more than $30 million had already been removed.
Archived WKRG coverage described planned 2008 Brookley construction milestones while the Air Force tanker award remained under review.
CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a segment alleging that officials in the Bush administration, including political strategist Karl Rove, pressed federal prosecutors to pursue a bribery case against former Alabama Gov.…
A CBS “60 Minutes” investigation raised new questions about whether the federal prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, a Mobile native, was politically motivated, reviving a controversy that had…
Mobile Police investigated the May 2008 shooting death of a 53-year-old man on Dartmoor Lane in West Mobile, according to an archived WKRG report.