Warden Trey Oliver said the Mobile County Metro Jail set an all-time population record of 1,806 inmates, far above its designed capacity, as summer heat and rising numbers strained the facility.
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Toyota Foundation Grants $150,300 to Mobile Area Education Foundation for STEM Push
The Toyota USA Foundation awarded the Mobile Area Education Foundation a $150,300 grant to support the EYE on STEM Leadership Academy, expanding science and engineering education across the region.
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Airbus Euphoria Meets Hard Numbers as Mobile Budget Standoff Drags On
Mayor Sam Jones cast Mobile’s budget fight in a brighter light after the Airbus announcement, but Councilman John Williams said the good news changed nothing about the city’s need to live within its means.
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Kellogg Foundation Grant Launches ‘Pathways to Prosperity’ for South Alabama Families
The Community Foundation of South Alabama announced a $398,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to launch Pathways to Prosperity, an initiative aimed at low-income families with children.
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Alabama Speaker Mike Hubbard to Lead Regional Legislative Group; Mobile to Host in 2013
House Speaker Mike Hubbard was chosen to lead the Southern Legislative Conference, which announced it would hold its next annual meeting in Mobile, bringing lawmakers from across the South to the coast.
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Ethics Trial of Suspended Judge Herman Thomas Pushed Back as Prosecutors Step Aside
Attorneys for the Alabama attorney general withdrew from the Judicial Inquiry Commission’s case against suspended Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas, prompting a request to delay his ethics trial.
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Anonymous Lawyer Launches Website to Cover Mobile Trials the Papers Miss
An unidentified attorney writing as ‘Publius’ announced a new website, alabamacourt.org, promising firsthand coverage and legal analysis of Mobile-area trials that newspapers no longer report.
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Sheriff Sam Cochran Calls New Meth Law a Win for Drugmakers, Not Law Enforcement
Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran welcomed pieces of Alabama’s new anti-meth legislation but blasted it as a tactical retreat by drugmakers who keep pseudoephedrine on store shelves.
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Baldwin County’s Jody Bishop Named Alabama ‘Judge of the Year’ for Protecting the Forests
Baldwin County District Judge Jody Bishop was named Alabama’s Judge of the Year by the state’s forest owners and forestry commission for his work prosecuting timber and woodland crimes.
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Downtown YMCA Members Sue to Block Move From Water Street
Members of the Moorer Branch YMCA sued to stop the relocation of the downtown Mobile fitness facility from Water Street to a smaller space in the Kress Building, alleging irregularities in the debt-laden Y’s plans.