Mobile and Baldwin County News
Sen. Richard Shelby used a Financial Times op-ed to defend the Air Force's tanker contract award to a Northrop Grumman-EADS team, arguing the deal would bring thousands of jobs to…
Archived coverage tracing Mobile's 2008 tanker saga from anticipation to the Air Force's $40 billion award to Northrop Grumman/EADS, bringing KC-30 assembly to Brookley Field.
With a $40 billion Air Force tanker decision imminent and an assembly line at stake for Brookley Field, an unsourced report in a foreign wire service set Mobile talking —…
A heart association fundraiser at the Battle House put local officials on a fashion runway, Alabama's senior senator prepared to address a business forum, and downtown Mobile revisited its most…
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby said a Nov. 1 meeting with governors and federal officials eased the immediate threat to Alabama's downstream water supply, including cooling water for the Farley Nuclear…
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby announced a $4.76 million federal award to the Alabama State Port Authority in Mobile for the State Docks intermodal facility, the second installment of a $20…
The U.S. Justice Department awarded the Mobile County Commission $450,000 through the COPS meth program, money Sheriff Sam Cochran said would fund an awareness campaign, data analysis and enforcement over…
A $30 million engineering center at South Alabama, a NOAA disaster response center on the Gulf, oyster bed reseeding and hurricane monitoring were among the projects approved in the 2008…
Meg Demeranville, daughter of Dr. Charles and Kathy Demeranville of Mobile, completed an internship in Sen. Richard Shelby's Washington office, sitting in on Banking Committee hearings and guiding Capitol tours.
Pointing to Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai and the new EADS facility in Mobile, Alabama's senior senator said he had cosigned a letter with enough signatures to stop the Employee Free Choice…