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Trip Pittman's lopsided win over Randy McKinney in the Baldwin County Senate District 32 Republican runoff raised hard questions about how much a popular governor's endorsement is actually worth.
Archived WKRG coverage reported that a Gulf Shores child tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis in 2007, according to the county health department.
Gov. Bob Riley's decision to back Randy McKinney over Trip Pittman in a Republican runoff broke an unwritten rule and left Mobile and Baldwin Republicans debating what it cost the…
On the eve of the Baldwin County Senate District 32 runoff, political veterans offered sharply divided predictions, with negative mail and the governor's endorsement dominating the closing arguments.
Pre-election disclosures showed Randy McKinney raising more than $140,000 and Trip Pittman more than $130,000 in the closing weeks of the Baldwin County Senate District 32 Republican runoff.
Daphne's curbside recycling program kept more than four million pounds of material out of landfills in 2007, according to WKRG.
Asked to name a favorite in the 2008 presidential race, Mobile-area officials, lawyers and civic figures answered with hedges, wish lists and a fair amount of open dissatisfaction with both…
With the special primary less than four weeks away, Alabama's interest groups had spread their money across five candidates in District 32, and the state's political veterans could not agree…
A threatened challenge to Baldwin County Commissioner David Ed Bishop's Republican credentials collapsed in July 2007 after a Democratic senator said a $150 contribution in his records had never been…
A $30 million engineering center at South Alabama, a NOAA disaster response center on the Gulf, oyster bed reseeding and hurricane monitoring were among the projects approved in the 2008…