Mobile County officials are pursuing a Department of Justice hiring grant that would fund four new deputies if Prichard disbands its police department and hands law enforcement duties to the Sheriff’s Office permanently.
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Coverage of Department of Justice from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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Mobile County Lands $450,000 Federal Grant to Fight Methamphetamine
The U.S. Justice Department awarded the Mobile County Commission $450,000 through the COPS meth program, money Sheriff Sam Cochran said would fund an awareness campaign, data analysis and enforcement over two years.
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Black Bart’s Strategic Retreat: The Christmas Letter of a Mobile Oilman in Exile
Mobile oilman Bart Chamberlain Jr. died in the Bahamas at 93, having fled the country rather than pay a $19.4 million judgment. A 1989 letter to his employees laid out his version of the fight.