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A former Prichard councilman entered the school board race, a former county commissioner passed, and courthouse offices from revenue to license commissioner drew a scramble of prospects as the filing…
A Mobile Republican women's club installed new leadership, city planners opened neighborhood meetings on a downtown master plan, and a young minister launched a campaign for the state school board…
A developing 2008 WKRG report said a Mobile Police pursuit ended after a white car crashed on Wilson Avenue in Prichard, with two men taken into custody.
Former Mayor Mike Dow said his wife would tolerate only one more campaign, and it would not be for the school board. In a long reply, he laid out his…
With a strategic plan complete and major industrial projects arriving in Mobile County, the South Alabama Regional Workforce Development Alliance opened a search for a director to carry the plan…
A 2007 WKRG report covered a shooting death outside a barber shop on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Prichard.
Merceria Ludgood took the oath as District 1 Mobile County commissioner, telling a Government Plaza crowd that anyone who thought she was too nice to fight for her district should…
Democratic nominee A.J. Cooper asked Republican Trip Pittman for four Baldwin County debates and proposed a written accord limiting spending, banning personal attacks and cleaning up campaign signs.
Sworn statements filed in a 2002 lawsuit by a Mobile inmate accused Judge Herman Thomas of paddling prisoners, five years before a judicial inquiry took up the same allegations.
Trip Pittman's lopsided win over Randy McKinney in the Baldwin County Senate District 32 Republican runoff raised hard questions about how much a popular governor's endorsement is actually worth.