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 in circulation.
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How a Law About Judges Nearly Cut the Mobile County Sheriff’s Pay by $28,000
A 1999 law meant to equalize judicial pay between rural and urban counties had an unnoticed side effect: the sheriff’s salary was pegged to the judges’. Sam Cochran nearly took a $28,000 hit.
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Sam Cochran to Take the Oath as Mobile County’s Interim Sheriff
Sam Cochran, the retired Mobile police chief and new Republican nominee for sheriff, was set to be sworn in Friday as interim Mobile County sheriff, taking over a department left unsettled by Jack Tillman’s departure.
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Political Notebook: A Former Federal Agent to Serve as Mobile’s Interim Sheriff
Under an arcane provision of Alabama law, retired federal agent David A. Evans Sr. was set to be named a special coroner so he could assume the duties of Mobile County sheriff after Jack Tillman’s plea.