Mobile and Baldwin County News
News from Mobile County, Alabama and its communities.
Suspended Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas hired Mobile attorney Billy Kimbrough to help defend him before the Judicial Inquiry Commission as a second round of complaints scuttled plans for…
U.S. Rep. Artur Davis of Birmingham came to Mobile for a Dutch-treat luncheon with three dozen politically active locals, an introduction arranged as speculation about a future statewide run followed…
A walk through Mobile's mid-year financial report for fiscal 2006-07 found revenue down 6.8 percent, hotel taxes collapsing against a Katrina-inflated year, and a transit subsidy running 121 percent over…
A 77-year-old retired federal contracting officer who once taught Jimmy Buffett to sail proposed a straight east-west I-10 crossing over Pinto Island, 360 feet above the river, that he said…
The Mobile County circuit judge filed a one-page answer denying every count of a complaint accusing him of letting family, social and political relationships influence his conduct in three criminal…
Chairing the Senate subcommittee that funds the Justice Department, Alabama's senior senator told Attorney General Alberto Gonzales the administration's budget would gut aid to state and local law enforcement.
A nationally known Mobile oddsmaker installed former Mayor Mike Dow as an even-money favorite in the 2010 governor's race. Consultants, lawyers and party officials lined up to explain why the…
Campaign records showed House Speaker Seth Hammett moved more than $1.4 million to Democratic candidates across Alabama in the 2006 cycle, including several from Mobile and the southwest counties.
The Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission lodged a 15-count complaint in March 2007 against Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas, sidelining him from the bench while the case proceeded.
Encouraged by a back-to-school sales tax holiday that appeared to lift rather than dent collections, Mobile County commissioners sketched plans for two more breaks: one for hurricane supplies in June,…