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Mobile County Commissioner Connie Hudson's 2012 'Pay As You Go' road program totaled $7 million, with nearly $3 million directed to projects inside the city of Mobile, including a new…
Deepwater Horizon Claims Administrator Patrick Juneau planned a Mobile press conference to update officials on the settlement process, reporting thousands of claims filed and millions in determination letters.
District Judge Mike McMaken, the longest-serving judge in Mobile County, announced he will step down Oct. 1 after more than 25 years on the bench, setting off a scramble to…
Warden Trey Oliver said the Mobile County Metro Jail set an all-time population record of 1,806 inmates, far above its designed capacity, as summer heat and rising numbers strained the…
The Toyota USA Foundation awarded the Mobile Area Education Foundation a $150,300 grant to support the EYE on STEM Leadership Academy, expanding science and engineering education across the region.
House Speaker Mike Hubbard was chosen to lead the Southern Legislative Conference, which announced it would hold its next annual meeting in Mobile, bringing lawmakers from across the South to…
Mayor Sam Jones cast Mobile's budget fight in a brighter light after the Airbus announcement, but Councilman John Williams said the good news changed nothing about the city's need to…
A group of teenagers from C.F. Vigor High School planned to host a mayoral candidate forum in Prichard, part of a civic project aimed at improving the city they call…
Attorneys for the Alabama attorney general withdrew from the Judicial Inquiry Commission's case against suspended Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas, prompting a request to delay his ethics trial.
An unidentified attorney writing as 'Publius' announced a new website, alabamacourt.org, promising firsthand coverage and legal analysis of Mobile-area trials that newspapers no longer report.