Mobile and Baldwin County News
Asked to name the political hero who shaped them, area officeholders past and present answered with presidents and prime ministers - and, more often than expected, with their own mothers…
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 summer heat settling in, area officials past and present shared the boxers, hounds, cats and rescues that keep them company, a warmer counterpoint to the city's debates over…
Circuit Judge Ferrill D. McRae, appointed by George Wallace 41 years earlier and the longest continuously serving judge in Alabama history, planned to step down from the Mobile bench on…
Mobile County's newest circuit judge was set for a public investiture at the courthouse, and a string of campaign kickoffs signaled that the 2006 election season had arrived at Government…
A standing order from Mobile County District Court, reported in March 2005, declared the court had no authority to expunge arrest records and sent petitioners to the Legislature instead.