Mobile and Baldwin County News
News from Chatom in Washington County, Alabama.
The Wilcox Gallery Music Studio in Chatom is accepting applications for its ninth season of free piano and violin lessons, taught by University of Mobile music students for residents of…
Hayden Chafin, a recent Washington County High School graduate, was honored by the Flying Bricks Community Band for his service to the group alongside fellow member Chris Beverly.
Veterans in Washington County now have a closer place to turn for help with their benefits. A new Alabama State Veterans Service office has opened in Chatom, giving local veterans…
A Washington County car dealership has pulled a Fourth of July promotion that offered every buyer a Bible, a 12-gauge shotgun and an American flag, after Ford Motor Company asked…
The National Weather Service office in Mobile has confirmed that two EF-1 tornadoes touched down in Washington County during severe weather on Sunday, adding the southwestern Alabama county to the…
Chatom, the seat of Washington County, spent most of its history as a dry town where anyone wanting a drink had to leave town to get one. That changed when…
Pierre Pelham, the Harvard-trained lawyer from Chatom who served two terms in the Alabama Senate and became its president pro tem, died at 80. Friends and rivals recalled a formidable…
With Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose suspended and facing a 60-charge ethics complaint, judges from Washington, Choctaw, Monroe and Marengo counties were assigned to keep his courtrooms running.
Circuit Judge-elect Stuart DuBose faced renewed bar discipline in late 2006 after the Alabama Supreme Court rejected a suspension timed to begin the day after the election as too lenient.