Mobile County Schools Considered Student Drug Testing in 2008
A 2008 WKRG report covered Mobile County Public Schools' discussion of a possible high-school student drug-testing program.
Mobile County Commission Clashes Over $200,000 Boost to ‘Come Back to Mobile’ Recruiting Campaign
Mobile County commissioners sparred over a $200,000 funding boost for a campaign aimed at recruiting former residents back to the region amid an ongoing effort to reverse years of skilled-worker…
A Midtown Mobile Wine Merchant Calls the End of the Pinot Noir Era
Four years after the film Sideways rewrote American wine buying, the general manager of a midtown Mobile wine shop argued the Pinot Noir craze was fading and pointed drinkers toward…
Mobile Police Reported 2008 Azalea City Credit Union Robbery
Mobile Police said two armed, masked men robbed the Azalea City Credit Union on Dauphin Street on April 21, 2008, according to an archived WKRG update.
Mobile Child Died in 2008 Apartment Fire, Authorities Said
Archived WKRG coverage reported that a three-year-old child died after an apartment fire in Mobile in 2008 and that the child's mother was arrested.
R & R Seafood Was Written Off by a Reliable Source. The Crawfish Said Otherwise.
A Causeway seafood market that became a restaurant after Katrina exceeded low expectations, with boiled crawfish cooked just right and a shrimp poorboy on New Orleans bread.
‘Do Ya Want Dat Dressed, Dahlin?’ In Search of a Proper Roast Beef Po-Boy
Dressed, pressed, and messy enough to require a stack of napkins: our critic laid out the rules of a proper roast beef po-boy, then admitted he had yet to find…
At The Royal Scam, Downtown Mobile Found Its Best Bowl of Shrimp Etouffee
A spring 2008 lunch at the Royal Scam on Royal Street produced the best shrimp etouffee in Mobile, a standout salad, and a lesson in the difference between a dark…
Mobile Republicans Wanted a Governor, a Southerner, or Condoleezza Rice on McCain’s Ticket
Asked whom John McCain should choose as a running mate, Mobile and Baldwin County Republicans named Charlie Crist, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour, Condoleezza Rice — and, more than once, an…
A Strip-Mall Kitchen on University Boulevard Lays Claim to Mobile’s Best Gumbo
After years of searching, a Mobile dining critic said in April 2008 that he had finally found a gumbo worth the hunt, at an unassuming po-boy shop at University Boulevard…