A Mobile Family’s Son Leads the Birmingham Mayor’s Race Into a Runoff
Attorney Patrick Cooper, son of retired Maj. Gen. Gary Cooper of Mobile, led the field in the Birmingham mayoral election and headed into a January runoff against William Bell.
Jefferson County’s Debt Crisis Threatened to Poison the Well for Every Alabama Borrower
As Alabama's largest county lurched toward what would be the biggest public bankruptcy in U.S. history, financial professionals warned that bond insurers had begun blacklisting the entire state, Mobile included.