Barkley visits Southern Union
NBA Hall of Famer and Emmy Award winner Charles Barkley visited Southern Union State Community College’s Opelika campus on Friday, where he joined students and leaders throughout the Alabama Community College System to learn more about the system and its newest statewide ad campaign, Make Life Better! “The number one way you can make life…
Read MoreTwo women arrested at Roanoke McDonald’s
Roanoke police officers were called to McDonald’s in Roanoke Saturday evening with reports that there were two women, possibly drunk, who were harassing people in the restaurant’s parking lot. According the RPD’s report of the incident, officers arrived to find one of the women urinating beside a car in the parking lot. Upon seeing the…
Read MoreGeorge Alexander Steele
(ROANOKE) Graveside services for George Alexander Steele, 66, of Roanoke will be held on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024, at 12 noon Central time at Centralhatchee Baptist Church Cemetery with Bro. Parker Barber officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 10-11 a.m. Central time on Saturday, Aug. 31 before going to the…
Read MoreHilda G. Lovvorn
(WEDOWEE) Graveside services for Hilda G. Lovvorn, 78, of Wedowee will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, at 10 a.m. at Wedowee City Cemetery with Bro. Gilbert Staples officiating. Miss Lovvorn passed away on Saturday, Aug. 17, at Traylor’s Retirement Center in Roanoke. Survivors include: Tommy Lovvorn and Penny Lovvorn, both of Wedowee and…
Read MoreJunior “Buck” Williams
(WADLEY) Funeral services for Junior “Buck” Williams, 89, of Wadley will be held on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with Bro. Keith Benefield and Bro. Claude Bennett officiating. Burial will follow at Forresters Chapel Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday,…
Read MorePolice and Sheriff’s incident and arrest reports
A white Dodge Dakota apparently ran a stop sign at County Roads 92 and 51 and ran up into a yard striking a 2014 Ford Raptor, a propane tank and finally a house on County Road 51 near Pine Hill before driving away Monday around 8:45 p.m. Cleburne County Sheriff’s Office was also notified. A…
Read MoreWedowee Jeld-Wen facility closing later this year
Plant has been a county mainstay for 30 years A staple of Randolph County’s workforce since 1994 will be completely shut down by the end of this year, eliminating over 60 jobs from the local economy. In a letter from Wendy Livingston, Jeld-Wen’s Executive Vice President of Human Resources dated July 31 and sent to…
Read MoreEric Mitchell Phillips, Sr.
(ROANOKE) Eric Mitchell Phillips Sr., of Roanoke, passed away Aug. 8, 2024, at Twin Fountains Nursing Home in LaGrange, Ga. Phillips was born in Roanoke Jan. 4, 1967, to Leroy (Kimo Sabe) Phillips and Audrey Phillips Owens, natives of both Randolph, and Chambers County. At an early age, he joined Rehope Baptist Church in Lafayette.…
Read MoreElishia Wade Wright
(DALLAS, Ga.) Funeral services for Elishia Wade Wright, 74, of Dallas, Ga., will be held Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. at East Roanoke Church of God. Visitation will be Friday., Aug. 16 from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. EST at Hanley-Shelton Funeral Home, Marietta, Ga. Mr. Wright died on Sunday, Aug. 11. He was born…
Read MoreAnonymous threat left on Leader reporter’s front doorstep
by Erica Thomas/1819News.com A reporter with The Randolph Leader newspaper received a threatening note at his home after covering a story about a new ambulance service and the county’s 911 service. Mike McCormick has worked for The Randolph Leader off and on since 1996. He covers meetings of agencies across the county, including Randolph County…
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