Historic Mobile Orphanage to Become ‘Cotton Hall’ Mardi Gras Lodge
One of Mobile's oldest Mardi Gras societies plans to restore the 1845 Protestant Children's Home downtown into a new meeting lodge called Cotton Hall.
Three Finalists Emerge in the Search for Mobile’s Next Police Chief
A nine-member screening committee narrowed eight departmental applicants to three finalists for Mobile police chief, leaving the final choice to Mayor Sam Jones.
Pierre Pelham, 1929-2009: The Chatom Lawyer Who Ran the Alabama Senate
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…
A Courthouse Ceremony for Judge Sarah Hicks Stewart, and a Season of Kickoff Rallies
Mobile County's newest circuit judge was set for a public investiture at the courthouse, and a string of campaign kickoffs signaled that the 2006 election season had arrived at Government…
Councilman Clinton Johnson Reports $16,550 Haul as He Seeks a Sixth Term
Veteran Mobile City Councilman Clinton L. Johnson Sr. raised $16,550 for the final reporting period of his all-but-certain bid for a record sixth term in the city's Aug. 23 municipal…
Political Chatter in Mobile: Who’s Running, Who Isn’t, and What the Mayor’s Job Is Really Worth
A shipping executive says no, a police chief eyes the sheriff's office, a businessman mulls a council run, Republicans pick a new county chairman, and Mobile's mayor earns less than…