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A $5,000 contribution from the local car dealers' PAC boosted Democrat Andrew Davis days before the 2006 election, in a Mobile County school board race shadowed by Superintendent Harold Dodge's…
Mobile County's probate judge reported 2,824 absentee ballot requests and about 1,200 returns days before the November 2006 election, figures he said pointed to a low turnout.
If Ben Brooks unseated Sen. Gary Tanner in 2006, the result would open a Mobile City Council seat, revive a county commission rivalry and set off a scramble that would…
For nearly 50 years Bernie Dittman ran WABB as an independent family station, turning down offers from the giants of corporate radio. Colleagues remembered a fierce competitor and a loyal…
With the summer heat settling in, area officials past and present shared the boxers, hounds, cats and rescues that keep them company, a warmer counterpoint to the city's debates over…
The Mobile City Council took up a $650,000 budget increase for the Wave Metro Transit System, drainage contracts and a rebuild of the Mobile Tennis Center at its Aug. 1,…
Circuit Judge Ferrill D. McRae, appointed by George Wallace 41 years earlier and the longest continuously serving judge in Alabama history, planned to step down from the Mobile bench on…
The full Senate approved a 2007 homeland security spending bill in July 2006 with $155.6 million for Coast Guard patrol aircraft trained on in Mobile and $4 million for the…
Alabama's senior senator warned a Senate defense panel in July 2006 that cutting $203.9 million from the KC-135 tanker replacement program would delay a contract that could bring aircraft work…
A Senate subcommittee advanced a 2007 homeland security spending bill carrying $4 million toward replacing the 14 Mile CSX railroad bridge, a chronic hazard for barge traffic on the Mobile…