Mobile and Baldwin County News
News from Semmes in Mobile County, Alabama.
Stephen Nodine's resignation from the Mobile County Commission ended the impeachment case against him and set off a scramble for the District 2 seat, with a special election scheduled for…
Mystery novelist Carolyn Haines, a University of South Alabama creative writing instructor who lives in Semmes, discusses her Mississippi Delta mystery series, an upcoming blues-themed anthology, and her advice for…
Mobile County's Democratic leaders were divided over $8,500 in state party money that moved through their committee to a get-out-the-vote group. The chairman called it laundering. Others called it Tuesday.
The county Democratic executive committee planned to meet around the county during 2009 to build interest, as two Democrats were reported preparing challenges to Republican state Reps. Victor Gaston and…
State Sen. Rusty Glover's $250 contribution to a Republican challenging an incumbent county commissioner needed explaining. He said it was simply reciprocity, and that he stays out of GOP primaries.
Coastal legislators were asked which colleagues outside their own delegations deserved to be called statesmen. The answers, from Republicans and Democrats alike, revealed who commanded respect in Montgomery.
Asked in mid-2007 whom they favored for president, Mobile-area officials, lawyers and businessmen produced a portrait of a Republican electorate torn between Giuliani, McCain and Romney, and a probate judge…
Leaders in fast-growing west Mobile County kept talking about turning Semmes into a city, with early estimates of 40,000 residents and a $20 million budget, while eyeing the neighboring town…
The Semmes Community Playground, a $600,000 park behind the community center on Moffett Road, was set to open with a ribbon-cutting on Feb. 3, 2007, the first of its kind…
Area Republican groups scheduled a May 2006 forum at the Semmes Community Center for the five candidates seeking the GOP nomination for Mobile County sheriff ahead of the June primary.