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Federal stimulus dollars are set to resurface Springhill Avenue from I-65 to Municipal Park. A councilwoman wants to add median landscaping and turn the stretch into a proper entrance to…
The Southern Circuit tour of independent filmmakers closes at Mobile's Ben May Main Library with a documentary about a Black student's run for homecoming queen against the University of Alabama's…
Mobile County school leaders said in March 2009 that some proposed campus closures or consolidations could be reconsidered after public hearings and funding news.
Two members of the Mobile County Democratic Executive Committee wrote to say a late-campaign $8,500 'pass-through' from the state party should never have moved without a committee vote.
In March 2009, Senior Bowl leaders said the event had not entered exclusive talks with Tampa but was considering interest from other cities as Mobile's contract expired.
Mobile County's Democratic leaders were divided over $8,500 in state party money that moved through their committee to a get-out-the-vote group. The chairman called it laundering. Others called it Tuesday.
Rep. Neil Abercrombie said he would push to split the Air Force's aerial refueling tanker contract between Northrop Grumman-EADS and Boeing, a fight with enormous stakes for Mobile.
Rose Johnson, director of the Mobile County Department of Human Resources, addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club on poverty and what she called its co-conspirator, illiteracy.
The second annual Gulf Coast Commercial Real Estate Summit and Market Review was held at the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center, organized by University of South Alabama professor Don Epley.
Armstrong World Industries announced in 2009 that it would end production at its Mobile plant, affecting 172 jobs amid the recession.