Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of government accountability from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Court-ordered mediation between Prichard Mayor Carletta Davis and city council members ended without agreement, sending the dispute over spending and city authority back to a Mobile County judge.
The utility running Prichard’s water system has fired its licensed operator after determining she falsified test results in a state filing, according to a regulatory disclosure. In a notice to…
Attorneys for two former Bayou La Batre Housing Authority officials are asking a judge to move their civil trial out of Mobile County, arguing pretrial media coverage of the $4.18…
Kimberly Gardner Wilson, fired as Prichard's finance director in June, faces a felony theft-by-deception charge accusing her of claiming nearly $4,000 in unauthorized overtime pay.
Alabama families in Gulf Shores and Ozark describe new allegations that Medicaid altered key paperwork before denying disability waiver benefits for their children, echoing complaints from Fairhope families earlier this…
Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch has reversed himself on one of the most striking payroll cases in his department, announcing that the sergeant who logged 2,613 hours of overtime in…
CHICKASAW, Ala. — Frustrated residents of Chickasaw took their complaint to the streets: they say they have been shut out of speaking at their own city council meetings for three…
State records show ALDOT built two free driveway turnouts for a North Mobile County landowner and newspaper publisher last year, work the agency's own manual says should be billed to…
Mobile County 911 Director Charlie McNichol was arrested for public intoxication after his county vehicle was found stopped on a Spanish Fort highway, but was not charged with DUI, and…
A 22-year veteran of the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office resigned last month in the middle of an internal investigation into how he handled overtime hours and time records, according to…