Mobile and Baldwin County News
The Democratic nominee for Mobile County district attorney says prosecutors and judges should not run under party banners at all, even as he prepares to appear on the November ballot…
Former U.S. Attorney Don Foster qualified just before Friday's deadline, giving Mobile County Democrats a candidate for an office their party has held for more than three decades.
Mark Erwin's district attorney campaign assembled a fundraising host list spanning ex-congressmen, former mayors, sitting legislators and both parties, aiming to raise roughly $70,000 in two hours.
The Mobile County Law Enforcement Association endorsed Assistant District Attorney Ashley Rich in the Republican primary for district attorney, as chief assistant Nicki Patterson ruled out a run.
Reports that Joe Reed would back Vivian Figures against Herman Thomas cut across four decades of Mobile political rivalry, and turned on a single legislative vote about a building's name.
Democrats opened statewide qualifying in January and Republicans in March, with both parties closing April 2 for June 1 primaries. Nearly every office in Alabama was on the 2010 ballot.
The Prichard City Council moved to amend its electronic bingo ordinance, arguing that machines are still bingo. Mobile County's district attorney said the law says otherwise.
Mobile County's district attorney was his party's nominee for attorney general in 2006. Three years on, the path to a rematch looks steeper, and other Democrats are circling the 2010…
Talk among defense lawyers has the veteran Baldwin County prosecutor mulling a comeback. Whetstone says he intends to get more politically active, but not to run for office again.
The former Mobile circuit judge surrendered on charges of extortion, kidnapping and sexual abuse involving nine inmates, while his lawyer denounced the case outside the jail as a 'high tech…