Mobile and Baldwin County News
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The Mobile City Council met in special session on a memorandum of understanding for the city's share of incentives for the $3.7 billion steel plant near Calvert, as the county…
The city of Mobile was named StormReady by NOAA's National Weather Service, a certification that a community meets federal standards for warning systems, communication and severe weather planning.
Mobile County's sheriff told a civic club he had cut the jail population by hundreds, won a raise for corrections officers and put technology at the center of his department,…
With a $2.9 billion steel mill decision expected within days, Mobile Mayor Sam Jones told a civic club he would not trade places with Louisiana, and laid out where the…
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, County Commissioner Juan Chastang and ADECA Director Bill Johnson headlined the Washington/Douglass Economic Forum, a Republican-sponsored think tank session on poverty and race.
U.S. Rep. Artur Davis of Birmingham came to Mobile for a Dutch-treat luncheon with three dozen politically active locals, an introduction arranged as speculation about a future statewide run followed…
With 11 of 14 proposed routes eliminated and transportation officials nearing a decision, Mobile's maritime community convened a public session downtown that organizers called critical to the port's future.
Mobile's clearance rate on stolen vehicle cases stood at 28.8 percent, more than double the national figure, and Police Chief Phillip Garrett said false reports and scrap yards were both…
Suspended Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas hired Mobile attorney Billy Kimbrough to help defend him before the Judicial Inquiry Commission as a second round of complaints scuttled plans for…
A 77-year-old retired federal contracting officer who once taught Jimmy Buffett to sail proposed a straight east-west I-10 crossing over Pinto Island, 360 feet above the river, that he said…