“I just want the facts ma’m, just the facts.”Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) on “Dragnet”Historians get this all the time.“Just tell us what happened.”“We just want the facts, not your opinion.”Which, of course, is a crock.They don’t want facts. They want an opinion that agrees with their opinion and if I gave them that they…
Arrests Ray Charles Willis, 60, of Opelika – failure to appear in court (bad check) and bad check – Nov. 12 Wesley Eugene Mezick, 41, of Valley – failure to appear (DUI and driving with revoked license) – Nov. 12 Amanda Gail Brown, 24, of Lineville – bad check – Nov. 12 Christopher L. Taylor,…
UNION—A visit by the Department of Human Resources, followed by a search warrant executed by Randolph County Narcotics Unit, broke up a methamphetamine lab in the Union community on Nov. 4. According to David Cofield of RCNU, a DHR employee was doing a welfare check of a child at 7295 Old Hwy. 431 when evidence…
A designated driver, who might not have been so sober himself, fled the scene of an accident that injured his three passengers. According to the report from Roanoke Police Department, the accident happened just after midnight Saturday and totaled a 1999 Chevrolet truck. The truck was traveling north on Airport Road. It ran off the…
Hey, everyone, my name is Venus and I am the mascot for the animal shelter. You might wonder how a dog named Venus got to be the shelter’s mascot. Here’s my story. I was brought into the shelter just about a year ago. I had a little family with me, six little puppies. I nursed…
In the first half of their second-round playoff game against the Calera Eagles, the Handley Tigers were on the ropes with time winding down in the second quarter. Calera had the ball on a fourth-and-goal play at the Handley 1-yard line and looked poised to take a one-touchdown lead going into halftime. But the ball…
A Roanoke man was injured early Thursday morning of last week when his 1995 Chevrolet slid off a muddy Roanoke road and almost into Cornhouse Creek. Clifton Miller, 34, had to be helped out of his vehicle by Corinth Volunteer Fire Department’s Jaws of Life following the accident on County Road 821 in the Harmon…
On a brisk Saturday morning, approximately 90 motorcycle riders pulled out of Lakeside Market on Lake Wedowee for the 7th annual Toy Ride. Others who couldn’t go on the ride that day stopped by to drop off their donations. Marie Bailey was gracious in letting the group hold the ride at Lakeside. Dennis Mitchell won…
These may be hard times economically all over the world, but there is one place that hasn’t heard the news-the University of Alabama. In case you missed it-and if you live in Alabama there’s hardly any way you could have unless you have been in a jungle somewhere for the past week or so-things have…
(ANNISTON) Services for Mr. Adrian “Mike” Ball, 44, will be 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, at Greater Calvary Baptist Church with the Rev. Hershey Taylor officiating. Burial will be in the Jennifer Cemetery in Munford. The body will be at the church one hour prior to services. Mr. Ball died on Tuesday, Nov. 11,…
(OPELIKA) Service for Betty Ruth McCary, 66, of Opelika will be Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008 at 2 p.m. at the chapel of Radney Funeral Home. Randy Anderson will officiate. Burial will follow in Hillview Memorial Park. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 1 to 2 p.m. at Radney Funeral Home. Ms.…
Handley 21, Calera 7; Clay County 21, Woodland 8 Handley 21, Calera 7 The Handley Tigers advanced to the third round of the playoffs after defeating Calera 21-7 on the road. Calera drew first blood with a 25-yard touchdown pass with 0:02 left in the first quarter. The point after was good giving Calera a…
(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Benjamin H. Brumbeloe Sr., 85, of LaGrange, Ga., died Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, at his home. Mr. Brumbeloe was born Feb. 6, 1923, in Roanoke, son of the late Herbert S. and Elsie Fetner Brumbeloe. B.H. was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, and his awards included the Navy/Marine Corps Medal…
(VININGS, Ga.) Myra L. Bailey, 78, of Vinings, Ga., died Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008, at Tranquility Wellstar Community Hospice in Austell, Ga. Mrs. Bailey was cremated and will be laid to rest at Big Springs Baptist Church, Roanoke, on Nov. 20. She was born in Randolph County, Ala., on Nov. 30, 1929. Mrs. Bailey was…
I’m sitting here wondering what the Sage of Fountain Inn would make of an Obama presidency. The Sage would be Robert Quillen, a transplanted Kansan who settled in the South Carolina mill town (population 1,200) 16 miles south of Greenville back in the early part of the 20th century. He began editing and publishing the…
Default having been made in the terms of that certain mortgage from Chris Jeffers and wife, Heather Jeffers, to McIntosh Commercial Bank, dated October 6, 2006, recorded October 9, 2006, in Mortgage Book 504, Page 651, in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, said default continuing and by virtue of…
The local sales tax collection for Roanoke City Schools is slightly down and revenues for the state in October were down 7.5 percent from the previous year, but Superintendent Chuck Marcum said the city school system will be all right this school year. But, he predicts 2010 will be a tough year for everybody. Roanoke…
(Not long ago Anniston had a mayoral election and all sorts of things happened. Here is my take on it.) It goes by a lot of names. “Gas money.” “Riding money.” “Driving money.” But in recent years the term most frequently used is “walking around money”—money paid to key figures in a community to “walk…
John Frank Burdette works on his rental houses daily. He picks up the guy who works on them and they go work on the houses, he said. He joined the Country Club in 1960 when it opened and has played golf ever since, most often with Page Enloe, he said. At age 88 his thoughts…
Recently, then-Mayor Bruce Albright said he was notified the suit filed in federal court by former Wadley interim police chief Larry Lacy had been dismissed. C. David Stubbs, attorney for the town of Wadley, sent a letter informing the town he filed for summary judgment with the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of…