Mobile and Baldwin County News
University of South Alabama
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…
Mobile City Councilman Ben Brooks scheduled an April 2006 rally and barbecue on Highway 90 West to kick off his Republican campaign for Alabama Senate District 35 against George Callahan.
Montgomery attorney and Mobile native Mark Montiel said he would challenge incumbent Republican Attorney General Troy King in the June 6 primary, calling King unqualified and soft on public corruption.
Retired grocery executive John Holland moved to reclaim the Mobile County school board seat he gave up after an ethics ruling, setting up a Republican primary against the woman appointed…
Nearly two decades later, former Mayor Mike Dow and the friends and rivals who shaped his first campaign recalled the audacious 1989 decision to bypass a council seat and run…
Circuit Court Judge Pamela Millsaps qualified for the Republican primary to keep the Mobile County juvenile judgeship, drawing a rematch with Jeff Glidewell and a Democratic challenger in Chip Herrington.
Mobile attorney Jeff Glidewell confirmed in March 2006 that he would seek the Republican nomination for Mobile County juvenile court judge, four years after running for the same seat as…
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby announced in October 2005 that the Senate-passed FY 2006 transportation and housing spending bill carried more than $10 million for Mobile-area projects, including the State Docks…
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby applauded EADS North America's decision to make Mobile the site of its KC-330 advanced tanker production facility, capping a five-month search.
Dr. Robert Shipp, chairman of marine sciences at the University of South Alabama, was appointed to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, giving Alabama a seat at the table…