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With the 2008 field still forming, local officeholders, lawyers and pundits named their favorites. A state representative was co-chairing John McCain's Mobile County campaign; a famous oddsmaker had already called…
More Mobile-area figures recalled the work that started them off, including a summer picking crab in Bayou La Batre that produced a lifelong vow about education, and a future NFL…
Casi Callaway of Mobile Bay Keepers headlined 'Saving Our Bay, Saving Our Seafood' at the Coden Community House, where a proposed sewer plant in south Mobile County was on the…
Mobile County Commissioner Mike Dean looked at a Republican primary fight and a likely Democratic opponent in his 2008 re-election bid, with names from Dauphin Island to Bayou La Batre…
Henry Barnes Sr., a Bayou La Batre city councilman and commercial truck driver, said he was 99 percent sure he would run for the Mobile County Commission, whether the body…
Country star Gretchen Wilson was headed to BayFest, a longtime Mobile firefighter was poised to lead Bayou La Batre's department, and a former sheriff was at work on a book.
Federal officials moved in June 2006 to release $28 million for Alabama, aimed at reseeding hurricane-wrecked oyster beds and clearing debris from shrimp grounds off the Gulf Coast.
When a Mobile attorney sent a canned-salmon gumbo recipe to his daughter's West Coast newspaper column, his mother wrote back with a letter that doubled as a lesson in Gulf…
In June 2006, Sen. Richard Shelby argued that the federal estate tax, scheduled to return in 2011, threatened family farms and small businesses, and pressed for permanent repeal after a…
Former state Sen. George Callahan opened his 2006 bid to reclaim south Mobile County's District 35 seat with a shrimp boil in Coden that he said drew more than 200…