A nine-member screening committee narrowed eight departmental applicants to three finalists for Mobile police chief, leaving the final choice to Mayor Sam Jones.
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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 and elusive figure.
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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 Street.
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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 elections.
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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 the man who books the Senior Bowl.