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Mobile Regional, Atmore Municipal, Dauphin Island and Bay Minette Municipal airports shared more than $3.28 million in federal aviation grants for sprinklers, security fencing and runway protection zones.
The Democratic presidential candidate collected roughly $160,000 at a seated luncheon in the Baldwin County home of Pat and Bob Edington, drawing about 45 donors from five states to a…
Sources said the Birmingham lawyer and lobbyist, whose 2006 run for lieutenant governor ended in defeat, was measuring a 2010 campaign for attorney general against incumbent Republican Troy King.
With the school system's administration finally out of the building, talk around Mobile turned to sending children back into Barton Academy, possibly as the new home of a performing arts…
A June reception at the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center, at $1,000 a ticket, aimed to raise $750,000 for Jeff Sessions' 2008 re-election campaign, with the president himself as the…
The Mobile County Education Association asked the school board president to release records on hundreds of thousands of dollars in no-bid contracts, questioning whether vendors who donated to the system…
Casi Callaway of Mobile Bay Keepers headlined 'Saving Our Bay, Saving Our Seafood' at the Coden Community House, where a proposed sewer plant in south Mobile County was on the…
Former City Commissioner Lambert Mims donated more than 130 boxes of papers, photographs and reel-to-reel tapes to the University of South Alabama, documenting a quarter century in Mobile politics.
Pointing to Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai and the new EADS facility in Mobile, Alabama's senior senator said he had cosigned a letter with enough signatures to stop the Employee Free Choice…
Scott Rye, a political consultant and advertising executive, was called up as a Navy Reserve commander to run media operations for Multi-National Force-Iraq, expecting to spend a year in Baghdad.