A Five Points man was arrested early Sunday morning after cutting two people outside the Huddle House in Roanoke.According to the reports from Roanoke Police Department, Timothy Paul Osborne, 49, of 2339 County Rd. 260, is charged with two counts of second-degree assault.According to witnesses’ statements, Osborne and his son, Timothy Michael Osborne, 25 of…
Back-to-school sales will soon roll out, and though it feels like summer has just begun, Randolph County Department of Human Resources and Randolph County Foster/Adoptive Parent Association are preparing for their second “Stuff the Bus” back-to-school drive. The date for the drive is Friday, July 23. The locations are Wedowee (next to H&M Drugs), Woodland…
WEDOWEE—District Judge Patrick Whaley ruled on Monday that defendants Jeffrey Nolen of Roanoke and Sam Wreyford of Wedowee are not guilty of disorderly conduct during a Randolph County Commission workshop meeting in March. Wreyford and Nolen received notification of the judgment on Wednesday. Their trial was in April. In his order, Whaley wrote, “The evidence…
The Handley Tigers are getting ready to make their debut in the 3A classification this upcoming season. But before they do, there’s work that has to be done. Handley players have been hard at work in the weight room ever since last season ended with a loss to Jackson in the 4A semifinals. The work…
The downtown Snax Deli building belongs to the city of Roanoke now. The paperwork is signed and the keys are in hand, Mayor Mike Fisher told the council at Monday night’s meeting. Lamar Davis donated the Main Street property to the city. Now the council will have to decide what to do with it, the…
Red-headed, freckle-faced, with a ball cap pulled low over his face, Payton Overton projects the mischievousness of many nine-year-olds, not the air of a boy fighting for his life. Payton, the son of Nancy and Jon Overton, finished the third grade at Knight-Enloe Elementary. He has a simple wish: to go back to school and…
The state fire marshal’s office is investigating a Sunday fire at property known by locals as Turley Mountain, about a quarter-mile from the Cleburne County line. A fire marshal was at the 15916 Old Hwy. 431 location Tuesday. When the Foster’s Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department tanker and pumper arrived at the trailer, it was already…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: MAMIE LOIS BALLARD RAMPY, DECEASED ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters of Administration on the Estate of Mamie Lois Ballard Rampy, deceased, having been granted to Amelia Rampy Crow on the 10th day of May, 2010, by the Honorable Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that…
Last week was probably the worst week in Southeastern Conference history, or at least since the University of Kentucky basketball program was shut down in the early 1950s for point shaving. Let’s recount what happened. On Monday, Georgia athletic director Damon Evans resigned in the wake of his embarrassing arrest for a DUI. Things got…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Wendell T. Deloach and Robin D. Deloach, husband and wife, to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., on the 4th day of June, 2004, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in…
Pop’s Landing on Lake Wedowee was burglarized during the night Thursday. Owner Donald Tidwell reported to Randolph County Sheriff’s Office that when he opened up Friday morning, he discovered that someone had broken in and taken 12 cartons of cigarettes, $300 in one-dollar bills and a handgun. There are no suspects at this time. If…
Randolph County voters returned to the polls in low, but larger than expected, numbers for a few runoff races. Two of those, the races to determine the Republican nominee for governor and the Democratic nominee for Randolph County sheriff, likely propelled the voters into the polling places. William Dillard missed making history as the first…
With overwhelming support from the Republican political establishment, the nomination for governor was Bradley Byrne’s to lose. And lose he did, due in large part to a campaign that never struck the right note. He came out from the start attacking AEA, immediately losing the support of thousands of teachers and their families. AEA’s Paul…
The other day I mentioned that Dr. Karen Chapman, the director of Okaloosa County’s Health Department, has started calling the little bits of petroleum that are drifting in “tar chips” instead of “tar balls.” They are smaller, harder, and will bounce off you if you bump into them in the water. All-in-all it is a…
WEDOWEE—Randolph County Commission approved having a special election to vote on the renewal of an existing ad valorem tax for education. During Thursday’s workshop meeting Roanoke City Schools Superintendent Chuck Marcum and Roanoke County Schools Superintendent Paul Gay addressed the council about these funds. In preparation for this request, the superintendents obtained a required number…
(WOODLAND) Graveside services for Ruby Wylene Cofield, 66, of Woodland will be at noon, Thursday, July 15, 2010, at Napoleon Church of Christ Cemetery with Bro. Jeff Thompson officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 9 to 11 p.m. on Thursday, July 15. Mrs. Cofield died Tuesday, July 13, at Roanoke…
(BIRMINGHAM) Jacqueline G. Williams, 43, of Birmingham died July 7, 2010. The funeral was Monday, July 12, at 11 a.m. at First United Methodist Church, downtown Birmingham, with burial at Wehadkee Missionary Baptist Cemetery, Roanoke. Davenport & Harris Funeral Home, Birmingham.
Polls will be open until 7 p.m. for the Republican and Democratic party runoff elections.
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Justin Aydon Sheppard, infant son of Justin Miles Sheppard and Jessica Staples, were Sunday, July 11, 2010, at 1 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Tim Craft officiating. Burial will follow at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Roanoke. The infant died Friday, July 9, at Lanier Memorial Hospital, Valley.…
(ROCK MILLS) James Edward Hester, 53, of Rock Mills died at his residence on Friday evening, July 9, 2010. “Fast Eddie,” as he was known by his family and friends, was the son of the late Arvin Edward Hester and was born Nov. 14, 1956, in Pinehurst, N.C. He served in the U.S. Navy and…