Mobile and Baldwin County News
Sources said Commissioner Stephen Nodine could face ethics charges within days, even as Baldwin County detectives searched for a missing bullet in the shooting death of Angel Downs.
Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran flirted with backing Tim James for governor but stayed publicly uncommitted. Former Sheriff Jack Tillman is in the James camp.
Attorneys for former Mobile County Sheriff Jack Tillman asked the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals to rehear his bid to undo the misdemeanor convictions that ended his career, arguing his…
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals turned down a rehearing petition from the former Mobile County sheriff, whose lawyers argued his rights were violated when his own former attorney testified…
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…
Country star Gretchen Wilson was headed to BayFest, a longtime Mobile firefighter was poised to lead Bayou La Batre's department, and a former sheriff was at work on a book.
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…
Campaign finance reports filed ahead of the June 6 primary showed three well-funded Republicans jockeying to succeed retiring Mobile County Sheriff Jack Tillman, each strong in a different way.
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…
Mobile County Sheriff Jack Tillman prepared to step down short of finishing his third term, opening the door to a 10-candidate scramble and a governor's pledge to appoint the GOP…