Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of public records from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
The Mobile Area Citizens Political Action Committee blew past its $75,000 goal, reporting $81,575 in contributions as the city campaigned for its west Mobile annexation vote like a political race.
The Mobile County Education Association asked the school board president to release records on hundreds of thousands of dollars in no-bid contracts, questioning whether vendors who donated to the system…
Former City Commissioner Lambert Mims donated more than 130 boxes of papers, photographs and reel-to-reel tapes to the University of South Alabama, documenting a quarter century in Mobile politics.
Mobile County's deputy school superintendent retained veteran attorney William A. Kimbrough after questions arose about more than 200 phone conversations with an ousted school board member under a court order.
A standing order from Mobile County District Court, reported in March 2005, declared the court had no authority to expunge arrest records and sent petitioners to the Legislature instead.
In 2004, Mobile County officials eyed a former newspaper building on Government Street as temporary quarters for Probate Court while the old courthouse was razed and the annex expanded upward.