(WEDOWEE) Services for Ilene Perry Pitts, 89, of Wedowee will be Thursday, Nov. 6, 2007, at Midway United Methodist Church with the Rev. Cloyce Johnson officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens.Mrs. Pitts died Saturday, Nov. 3 at Cherokee County Nursing Home in Centre after a long illness.Survivors include her husband of 67 years,…

(WEDOWEE) Services for Rebecca Traylor Moss, 69, of Wedowee, will be Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007, at 11 a.m. at Corinth Baptist Church with the Revs. Braden Morrison, Tommy Carr and Robert Mount officiating. Mrs. Moss will lie in state one hour before the service. Burial will follow in the adjoining church cemetery. The family will…

Handley High School Principal Jim Holley updated the Roanoke Board of Education about the school, including its annual disciplinary report, at last week’s meeting. Holley said the semester that ends this week has been a busy one, with the school’s 100th year commemoration and the visit by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Five…

10:30 a.m. Narcotics Anonymous meets behind the former KFC in Roanoke in the building with the blue awning. noon The Retired Teachers of Randolph County will meet for a Dutch treat lunch at The Galley Restaurant, Roanoke. 7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous meets at Woodland Volunteer Fire Department. THURSDAY, November 1 noon Roanoke Rotary Club meets…

Arrests Oct. 29 – Kimberly Tanya Hernandez, also known as Kimberly Tanya Beck, 23, of 1226 Maple Dr., Roanoke – disorderly conduct Oct. 29 – Eugene Harold Tucker, 37, of 740 Bell Rd., Roanoke – harassment Oct. 29 – Joshua Ricky Kirby, 22, of 2404 County Rd. 91 Roanoke – four counts of manufacture/sale/transfer of…

The governor’s lawyer son, Rob Riley, former State Supreme Court Justice Terry Butts, and the governor’s 2002 campaign attorney Matt Lembke, have all provided sworn affidavits to the U. S. House Judiciary Committee, stating that to the best of their “recollection” or “memory” they were not involved in an 11-minute telephone conversation with Rainsville lawyer…

Last week I celebrated my 24th birthday. I know to a lot of people that doesn’t sound too old, but let me tell you, it sure feels like it to me. I was thinking the other day, this week I will be six years removed from my high school football career. And like many of…

WEDOWEE – A Carrollton, Ga., man was arrested last week and charged with raping his live-in girlfriend’s teenage daughter. According to Randolph County Sheriff’s Office investigator Gregory Dendinger, the alleged rape is said to have occurred at a residence in the Graham area in August. Wendell Bradley, 39, who formerly lived at Pop’s Landing in…

Fifth Judicial Circuit Judge Steve Perryman accepted Gregory Terry Bailey’s guilty plea Monday before a jury was selected for his murder trial. This is the second week of the county’s two-week fall criminal trial term, and a plea has once again sent the prosecution scrambling for an alternate case to try. Bailey’s murder trial was…

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Latonia L. Williams, a single person, and Louise Williams, a single person, in favor of Jim Walter Homes Inc., dated August 29, 2002, and recorded November 4, 2002, Book 435, Page 496, in the Office of the Judge…

Aside from LSU, 7-1 on the season, and Ole Miss, 2-7 on the year, every other team in the Southeastern Conference has won either five or six games in what has to be the most balanced league race in history. At this moment, 11 of the 12 SEC teams have a shot at being bowl…

The construction of the geriatric psychiatric unit at Randolph Medical Center is on schedule, according to Administrator Tim Harlin. Change orders have brought the remodeling for the unit to about $538,000 but nothing surprising, he told Roanoke Health Care Authority last week. They haven’t received the first invoice but when they do it must be…

Separate sealed BIDS for the construction of Project No. 111-15F: Fosters Bridge Crossing and Water System Improvements will be received by the Randolph County Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authority 538 Main Street Roanoke, AL 36274 (334) 863-8949 at the above office until 9:00 AM, (Central Time)on date December 6, 2007, and then publicly opened…

A Roanoke woman was transported by helicopter to University Hospital in Birmingham on Monday night when she was struck by a car while riding her horse. The accident happened at approximately 7:15 p.m. on Highway 22 west of Randolph Memory Gardens. According to WELR’s Al Haynes, who stopped at the scene, the driver, Christopher Humphries,…

(ROANOKE) Services for Robert Martin Johnson, 89, of Roanoke, will be Monday, Oct. 29, 2007 at 2 p.m. at Big Springs Baptist Church, with the Rev. Tom Owensby and the Rev. Scott Hannah officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. Johnson will lie in state at the church for one hour prior to…