Mobile and Baldwin County News
With the deadline for bids in the U.S. Air Force’s long-running aerial refueling tanker competition arriving this week, the debate over which manufacturer would build the next generation of tankers…
With the deadline for final bids on the Air Force’s multibillion-dollar aerial refueling tanker contract arriving, much of the public debate around the competition has centered on a familiar question…
A Mobile woman's call for weekly prayer meetings tied to the city's Air Force tanker bid, complete with a warning about rising floodwaters, reached Mayor Sam Jones, who said he…
Bradley Byrne chose Brookley Field to unveil his economic plan on the first working day of 2010, while rival Bill Johnson addressed the Mobile County Republican Executive Committee the same…
Sheriff Sam Cochran turned an investigation involving County Commissioner Stephen Nodine over to state agents after a substance was found in his county truck. Nodine's lawyer called it a set-up…
As Mobile fumed over one senator's slight, a Kansas congressman kept up his own campaign against the Airbus-built tanker, accusing supporters of the aircraft of blackmailing the Air Force.
A Washington senator told NPR she had never seen anyone in Alabama build anything. Mobile's mayor, a county commissioner and a candidate for governor lined up to correct her, and…
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions used a Senate floor speech to answer a colleague's slight against Alabama workers and to argue that the Pentagon had rewritten the aerial tanker bid rules…
Northrop Grumman told the Pentagon it could not bid on the $40 billion aerial refueling tanker program unless the request for proposals changed, threatening the aircraft plant planned for Brookley…
U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, sat down for an extended interview in March 2009 to discuss his early years representing south Alabama in Congress, his most difficult vote in office,…