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The Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission lodged a 15-count complaint in March 2007 against Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas, sidelining him from the bench while the case proceeded.
The U.S. Department of Transportation agreed in February 2007 to release more than $10 million to the Alabama State Port Authority for the Choctaw Point Terminal and an intermodal rail…
Mobile native and Emmy-winning underwater cinematographer Mike DeGruy was set to appear at the Saenger Theatre in March 2007 with footage from Antarctica, the Titanic and hydrothermal vents.
With US Airways pursuing an $8 billion hostile bid for Delta in late 2006, Mobile Regional Airport's marketing director weighed better connections against the risk of higher fares and less…
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.
City figures showed Mobile collected $9.7 million in August 2006 sales taxes, up more than 20 percent from the prior year, in the month of Alabama's back-to-school sales tax holiday.
Democrats celebrated nationally and cheered statewide but stumbled in Mobile County. Party figures and consultants dissected losses by Gary Tanner, Chip Herrington and Pat Lindsey and asked what the results…
As a hard-fought general election approached, attorneys, lobbyists and officials around Mobile and Baldwin counties handicapped races from governor to the local juvenile bench, and braced for a low turnout.