Mobile and Baldwin County News
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With the retirement of Circuit Judge Ferrill D. McRae, Juvenile Court Referee Andrea Pennington became the most experienced presiding officer in any Mobile County courtroom, a distinction earned far from…
A survey of 512 registered voters found 45.6 percent believed Mobile County public schools were on the right track. Among the critics, the school board drew far more blame than…
With a federal and state investigation swirling around Bishop State Community College, its longtime president stood to collect a lump sum of roughly $529,000 under Alabama's DROP program if she…
A 1999 law meant to equalize judicial pay between rural and urban counties had an unnoticed side effect: the sheriff's salary was pegged to the judges'. Sam Cochran nearly took…
Mobile County's deputy school superintendent retained veteran attorney William A. Kimbrough after questions arose about more than 200 phone conversations with an ousted school board member under a court order.
The Semmes Community Playground, a $600,000 park behind the community center on Moffett Road, was set to open with a ribbon-cutting on Feb. 3, 2007, the first of its kind…
The Department of Homeland Security agreed to release $54,526 to the Saraland Fire Rescue Department in late 2006 under the Assistance to Firefighters Grants Program, money earmarked for operations and…
Mobile moved in late 2006 to restore two-way traffic on Royal Street and blocks of Dauphin and St. Francis, an $800,000 project tied to the Battle House Hotel and the…
Luther Strange ran roughly 9,000 votes behind other Republicans on the Mobile County ballot in 2006. Flip those votes and he wins statewide. Instead, Jim Folsom returned to the lieutenant…
Sources said the all-Republican Mobile County Commission did not intend to renew the contract of assistant county attorney Merceria Ludgood, a Democrat with 17 years in the legal department.