Mobile and Baldwin County News
News from Mobile County, Alabama and its communities.
As a hard-fought general election approached, attorneys, lobbyists and officials around Mobile and Baldwin counties handicapped races from governor to the local juvenile bench, and braced for a low turnout.
From Wintzell's to a riverside restaurant on Dog River, Mobile-area candidates and their supporters made plans to gather across the region as voters prepared to decide their fates on Tuesday.
A $5,000 contribution from the local car dealers' PAC boosted Democrat Andrew Davis days before the 2006 election, in a Mobile County school board race shadowed by Superintendent Harold Dodge's…
Mobile County's probate judge reported 2,824 absentee ballot requests and about 1,200 returns days before the November 2006 election, figures he said pointed to a low turnout.
If Ben Brooks unseated Sen. Gary Tanner in 2006, the result would open a Mobile City Council seat, revive a county commission rivalry and set off a scramble that would…
For nearly 50 years Bernie Dittman ran WABB as an independent family station, turning down offers from the giants of corporate radio. Colleagues remembered a fierce competitor and a loyal…
With the summer heat settling in, area officials past and present shared the boxers, hounds, cats and rescues that keep them company, a warmer counterpoint to the city's debates over…
An array of Mobile-area leaders lined up to host a major fundraiser for District Attorney John Tyson's Democratic campaign for attorney general, with contributions sought at $500, $1,000 and $2,500.
The Mobile City Council took up a $650,000 budget increase for the Wave Metro Transit System, drainage contracts and a rebuild of the Mobile Tennis Center at its Aug. 1,…
With Amendment One fading from memory and Gov. Bob Riley courting industry, Alabama Democrats searched for a weakness heading into the fall campaign, while local sidewalks and a federal lawsuit…