2007 Tour Captured Saraland’s Growth and Small-Town Character
Archived WKRG coverage from 2007 highlighted Saraland's parks, new subdivisions, civic projects and growth plans.
Amended Complaint Deepened the Ethics Case Against a Suspended Mobile Judge
In July 2007, prosecutors added 15 charges against suspended Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas after most of his colleagues on the bench accused him of pulling cases off other…
A Chickasaw Politician’s Quiet Campaign to Free a Louisiana Governor
Former Mobile County Tax Assessor Ken Malone planned a public crusade to free imprisoned ex-Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards. After a two-hour prison visit in 2007, he agreed to fight quietly…
Mobile Renamed Dixie Street for a Civil Rights Pioneer and Druggist
The Mobile City Council voted in July 2007 to rename Dixie Street for Dr. James H. Finley, an early civil rights leader whose drugstore chain served the city's Black community…
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A Senate Subcommittee Steered Millions Toward South Alabama Science and Coasts
A $30 million engineering center at South Alabama, a NOAA disaster response center on the Gulf, oyster bed reseeding and hurricane monitoring were among the projects approved in the 2008…
First Jobs: Paper Routes, Ice Cream Plants and a Teenage Interview With George Strait
As another crop of graduates went looking for work, a group of Mobile-area figures were asked to recall the first jobs that started them off, from a Des Moines paper…
First Jobs, Part Two: Crab Picking in Bayou La Batre and a Quarterback Sweeping the Shop
More Mobile-area figures recalled the work that started them off, including a summer picking crab in Bayou La Batre that produced a lifelong vow about education, and a future NFL…
A Punch on the Senate Floor, and a Standing Ovation in Birmingham
State Sen. Charles Bishop was publicly condemned for punching a Democratic colleague on the Alabama Senate floor. At a Republican dinner in Birmingham, he got a standing ovation, and Mobile…
Long Before the Primaries, Mobile’s Political Class Was Already Choosing Sides
With the 2008 field still forming, local officeholders, lawyers and pundits named their favorites. A state representative was co-chairing John McCain's Mobile County campaign; a famous oddsmaker had already called…
First Jobs, Part Four: The Mail Route, the DDT Truck and the Shoe Department Ambush
A substitute mail carrier's route through Tillman's Corner, a summer spent driving a city DDT truck and a teenage boy's crushing disappointment in a department store shoe department round out…