Mobile and Baldwin County News
Gulf Lumber executive Sandy Stimpson has taken himself out of the 2006 governor's race, but the line of prospective candidates in both parties is barely any shorter for it.
First-time candidate Rick Collins raised $31,600 to John Peavy's $2,800 in the opening filing period of the 2004 special election for Mobile City Council District 7, left vacant by Stephen…
Roger McConnell, a former Alabama Republican Party chairman from Mobile, resigned from the state and county GOP executive committees in 2004 after co-hosting a fundraiser for Democratic District Attorney John…
Retired Mobile County Circuit Judge John Butler, a Republican who spent 22 years overseeing juvenile court, endorsed Democrat Jeff Glidewell over the GOP incumbent appointed to succeed him.
Gov. Bob Riley appointed Mobile City Councilman Stephen Nodine to the vacant District 2 seat on the Mobile County Commission in July 2004, days after Nodine won the Republican runoff.
Third-place finisher Austin Rainwaters endorsed Stephen Nodine in the 2004 Mobile County Commission District 2 runoff, saying his supporters were unanimous in rejecting Ralph Buffkin.
A May 2004 Mobile Bar Association poll of members produced landslide preferences in several judicial contests, including a lopsided vote for Mobile attorney Robert H. Smith for the Alabama Supreme…
An opinion from the Alabama Attorney General held that Mobile County Commissioner Freeman Jockisch vacated his seat upon his federal fraud conviction, leaving the governor to fill the vacancy.
With the Republican primary set for June 1, one veteran observer sized up the Mobile County Commission contests in Districts 2 and 3, where a federal trial loomed over a…