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An engineering firm designed a Dauphin Street drainage project for 66-inch pipes when 72-inch pipes were needed. The error cost Mobile $650,000, and the firm's principal had given to the…
A bank taking space in the Athelstan Club, condominiums nearing completion on Dauphin Street and two buildings being restored on Bienville Square marked downtown Mobile's revival in spring 2008.
As the Siegelman prosecution became a national controversy, Alabama Republicans mocked the idea that Jill Simpson, the operative at the center of it, had ever been a figure in state…
A historical WKRG report said Mobile police investigated a fatal shooting at a car wash off Airport Boulevard in April 2008.
Archived WKRG coverage reported that a vehicle fire damaged a Theodore home on General Lee Avenue in 2008.
Archived WKRG coverage reported that Mobile County school and community leaders considered a student drug-testing program in 2008.
A 2008 WKRG report covered Mobile County Public Schools' discussion of a possible high-school student drug-testing program.
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 said two armed, masked men robbed the Azalea City Credit Union on Dauphin Street on April 21, 2008, according to an archived WKRG update.
In 2008, Semmes residents debated whether forming a municipality could improve local services and keep tax revenue in the growing community.