For a team tasked with breaking in new players at virtually every position, the last thing you want is to lose your starting quarterback to an injury.Unfortunately for Handley, the last thing they wanted was the first thing that happened in Thursday’s 7-0 jamboree win over Sand Rock.Starting quarterback QuonDarius Lyons injured his hip falling…
WEDOWEE–At approximately 4:38 a.m. on Friday of last week, Wedowee Police Department received a call of a house fire at 110 Robin Rd. in Wedowee Heights Apartments. The cause of the fire appears to be accidental and started on the stove in the kitchen. Brandon Devon Lane, 27, the tenant of the home, was discovered…
SPRINGVILLE–The suspect accused in the murder of an Odenville Middle School librarian and assistant coach grew up in Randolph County. According to reports, D’kota Chance Griffin, 27, attended school in Wedowee and Woodland. He is listed now as a resident of Lineville. School resource officers discovered the body of Michael Jeffrey Collins, 46, in his…
OMAHA–On Wednesday, Aug. 23, at approximately 12:40 p.m., Randolph County Narcotics Unit (RCNU) agent Larry Clark was contacted by Alabama Probation officer Ryan Fordham to come to the Higgins residence at 415 County Rd. 52 in the Omaha community near Woodland. Fordham met Clark and agents Randy Moore and Kevin Walker in the driveway. He…
FOSTER’S CROSSROADS–An Anniston woman was seriously injured on Monday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident north of Foster’s Crossroads. According to the report from the Jacksonville post of the Alabama State Troopers, Amanda Marie Miller, 24, of Anniston was passing a tractor-trailer in her 2003 Honda Pilot, when her vehicle made contact with the rear of…
A Tennessee man was airlifted to University Hospital in Birmingham following an ATV accident on Saturday in the Swagg area. Jeff Barber, 53, of Cleveland lost control of the ATV on Deerfield Drive, slid around and the vehicle turned over onto him. He was transported by Southern Ambulance Transport to Foster’s Volunteer Fire Department and…
(ROCK MILLS) Funeral services for Shirley JoAnn Foster, 81, of Rock Mills will be Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017, at 2 p.m. at Rock Mills Church of the Nazarene with the Revs. Franklin Foster Jr. and Mark Aills officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from…
(WEDOWEE) Philip Simon, a resident of Wedowee and native of Georgia, died Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, at his residence. The funeral will be Friday, Sept. 1, at 1 p.m. EDT at New Unity Missionary Baptist Church, 3675 MLK Jr. Dr. SW, Atlanta, with the Rev. James E. Hightower officiating. Interment with full military honors to…
Between tickets, tables sold and auction items, Roanoke Rotary raised about $6,140, maybe more with a few more tickets out there, for the Soul Tymes Nine concert at the Main Street Theatre, according to Rotarian David Denton. The money is being raised to provide a permanent stage cover for the old renovated Martin Theatre. There…
The public is invited to “The Art of the Great War,” a talk by Keri Hallford, on Wednesday, Sept. 20, at noon at Annie L. Awbrey Public Library, Roanoke. During World War I, many renowned artists volunteered their skills on the homefront, creating compelling and beautiful posters promoting the war effort. Hallford’s talk will discuss…
In a back-and-forth contest the final swing went Central of Clay County’s way as the Volunteers survived for a 21-20 season-opening win against Munford Friday in Lineville. Munford had a chance to take the lead in the final seconds, but their 41-yard field goal attempt fell just short, and Central came away with the win.…
The fall Randolph County Animal Shelter Book Sale and Barktoberfest will be Saturday, Oct. 21, with a second book sale on Saturday, Oct. 28, at the old cotton warehouse on Main Street in Roanoke from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Joining the event on Oct. 28 will be the second annual Barktoberfest, with vendors present,…
Woodland failed to consistently generate momentum on offense as the Bobcats lost their preseason game 28-3 to White Plains Friday in Woodland. White Plains is coming off of a winless season, but as a 4A school, their size up front proved too overpowering for Woodland. “The reason I think our offense didn’t move the ball…
Technically it was a regular season game, and the loss will show up in Ranburne’s final record at the end of the year. But the Bulldogs’ 43-14 loss to Mt. Zion of Carrollton Friday in a lot of ways resembled a preseason game. “I felt like it looked a lot like a preseason scrimmage on…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain Mortgage executed by KENNETH G. LANGLEY and MELISSA J. LANGLEY, a married couple as joint debtors, to SMALL TOWN BANK on May 27, 2014, said Mortgage being recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate, Randolph County,…
State of Alabama Randolph County Sheriff’s Sale Rodd Hineman VS. Marcus Knight By Virtue of a judgments issued out of Circuit Court of Randolph County, Alabama and to me directed, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of a certain judgment recently obtained against Marcus Knight, defendant, out of the goods, chattels, land and…
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage dated April 3, 2009, executed by Terill L. Drake, an unmarried person, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for American Southwest Mortgage Corp., which mortgage was recorded on April 8, 2009, in Mortgage Book…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: LORA S. CHILDERS NOTICE OF FILING OF PETITION FOR SUMMARY DISTRIBUTION Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Summary Distribution of the above named estate has been filed by Pamela Gay Starkey on the 23rd day of August, 2017, and that 30 days after…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: JOE STANLEY MITCHELL, DECEASED ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters of Administration on the Estate of Joe Stanley Mitchell, deceased, having been granted to Debra Stallings on the 21st day of August, 2017, by the Honorable Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: MARSHALL MARKS BROWN JR., DECEASED ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters of Administration on the Estate of Marshall Marks Brown, Jr., deceased, having been granted to Tammy Matthews Brown on the 24th day of Aug., 2017, by the Honorable Judge of Probate of said County,…