Mobile and Baldwin County News
A coalition of Mobile agencies is betting that a garden can grow more than vegetables — it might keep young people on a better path. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design,…
THEODORE, Ala. — Parents, guardians and children packed Midway Missionary Baptist Church in Theodore for a community forum on youth violence, where a panel of law enforcement officers and local…
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…
With the retirement of Circuit Judge Ferrill D. McRae, Juvenile Court Referee Andrea Pennington became the most experienced presiding officer in any Mobile County courtroom, a distinction earned far from…
Democrats celebrated nationally and cheered statewide but stumbled in Mobile County. Party figures and consultants dissected losses by Gary Tanner, Chip Herrington and Pat Lindsey and asked what the results…
As a hard-fought general election approached, attorneys, lobbyists and officials around Mobile and Baldwin counties handicapped races from governor to the local juvenile bench, and braced for a low turnout.
From Wintzell's to a riverside restaurant on Dog River, Mobile-area candidates and their supporters made plans to gather across the region as voters prepared to decide their fates on Tuesday.
The retirement of one of Mobile County's best-known circuit judges created a rare open seat, and three Republican names surfaced almost immediately. A juvenile court race was taking shape as…