Mobile and Baldwin County News
Former Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine asked that his murder retrial be moved out of Baldwin County, arguing that intense publicity had inflamed opinion against him and made an impartial…
Retired prosecutor David Whetstone became the latest to take up the tangled Nodine file, named a special prosecutor by the attorney general to pursue a murder theory despite a grand…
A wave of maneuvering reshaped judicial politics across Mobile and Baldwin counties, with a Mobile attorney challenging a sitting judge and a contested probate race taking shape in Baldwin.
A Baldwin County grand jury dramatically reduced the charge against Stephen Nodine to criminally negligent homicide, a misdemeanor, in the death of Angel Downs, drawing sharp reactions from all sides.
An attorney for Stephen Nodine demanded scrutiny of a theft of evidence drugs from the Baldwin County coroner's office, seeking to link it to the medications of Angel Downs as…
As the Baldwin County district attorney runoff drew near, incumbent Judy Newcomb insisted her endorsement of David Green carried no strings, while candidate Hallie Dixon and a fourth-place finisher sparred…
Baldwin County District Attorney Judy Newcomb, eliminated in the primary, prepared to back David Green over her former chief assistant Hallie Dixon in the July 13 Republican runoff.
Ashley Rich routed Mark Erwin, Vivian Figures turned back Herman Thomas, and Baldwin County's incumbent district attorney failed to make her own runoff, as local observers assessed a night of…
Days before Alabama's June 1 primaries, a panel of lawyers, lobbyists, former officeholders and consultants offered their forecasts on the governor's race, two district attorney contests and the fight over…
Defense attorneys scheduled depositions of a fellow commissioner, county lawyers and a circuit judge, while a judge's 12-page recusal order drew a pointed response from Mobile's presiding judge.