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A profitable 2009 summer tourist season on Pleasure Island offered a potential boost to Baldwin County school revenue as the system faced a $56 million shortfall and possible support-staff layoffs.
Baldwin County health officials said a possible H1N1 flu case was under testing in April 2009 while Gulf Shores officials sought to calm unfounded outbreak rumors.
A one-day boutique at Bel Air Mall handed out roughly 300 free prom dresses to girls from Mobile, Fairhope, Loxley, Gulf Shores and as far away as New Orleans. Only…
Marty Connors, former chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, argued that Republicans could not credibly attack federal spending without first admitting how much of it they had authorized themselves.
Southern Living ranked Fairhope No. 2 among the South’s best small towns in 2009, citing its charm, hospitality, scenery and recreation.
A national oral history project came to Mobile's libraries, students organized a global warming teach-in at South Alabama, tourism officials courted snowbirds, and the Navco Road bridge neared reopening.
Republican Trip Pittman and Democrat A.J. Cooper faced voters after a special election season that proved one thing above all: in Baldwin County, it costs far more to win a…
Archived WKRG coverage reported that a Gulf Shores child tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis in 2007, according to the county health department.
On the eve of the Baldwin County Senate District 32 runoff, political veterans offered sharply divided predictions, with negative mail and the governor's endorsement dominating the closing arguments.
With the special primary less than four weeks away, Alabama's interest groups had spread their money across five candidates in District 32, and the state's political veterans could not agree…