The former owners of Butler’s Mill Restaurant at Graham were arrested on Tuesday of last week and charged with first-degree insurance fraud. Christopher Lynn Phillips, 49, and Tabitha Elliot Phillips, 37, of Ranburne were the owners of the restaurant–housed in a much beloved mid-1800s cotton gin/gristmill/sawmill overlooking the Little Tallapoosa River–that burned to the ground…

On Monday, multiple law enforcement agencies including Randolph County Narcotics Unit, Randolph County Sheriff’s Department, Roanoke Police Department, Wedowee Police Department, Chambers County Drug Task Force and Emergency Medical Transport came together to perform two simultaneous search warrants on Seymour Drive in Roanoke. At approximately 4 a.m., 31 officers, agents, deputies, investigators and EMT personnel…

Southern Union State Community College will host a job fair on Tuesday, April 11, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the Southern Room on the Opelika campus. Some participating employers will include: City of Auburn, City of Opelika, Roanoke City Schools, Randolph County Board of Education, Auburn University College of Architecture, Design & Construction,…

Woodland Founder’s Day will be Saturday, April 22, with opening ceremonies at 9 a.m. Live entertainment will begin at 9:30, featuring Woodland High School Band, Abbie Harden, Dance Center on Main, Brandon Yarbrough with Allen and Geraldine McDaniel, Randolph High School String Band, and Sweet Southern Sound. Recognition of Woodland High School’s 100 years of…

Woodland High School will celebrate its 100th anniversary this year with a program on April 27 at 12:30 p.m. at WHS Warren Sewell Field. The program will include guest speakers, a balloon release and door prizes. The WHS Band will perform, and there will be a presentation by this year’s class historian. Some items from…

Spring break is behind us, which means that for most of the county’s baseball and softball teams the most critical stretch of the regular season is upon us. Area games aplenty over the next two weeks will determine the postseason fates of those teams, almost all of which have a shot to win an area…

President Trump’s “terrific” new health care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” turned out not to be so terrific after all. Despite the president’s promises to “increase access, lower costs and provide better health care,” the American Health Care Act, or “Trumpcare,” would have done the opposite. Only 17 percent of Americans…

Remember when they busted Miss Cleo, the Jamaican psychic whose “hotline” offered free “supernatural insight into love and money.” Under pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, the two companies that ran her operation agreed to shut down, pay a fine, and forgive some $500 million in customer bills. $500 million??? Wasn’t that insight supposed to…

Lots of folks are still mad about our lame duck governor Robert Bentley naming Attorney General Luther Strange to Jeff Sessions’ Senate seat. If the sitting attorney general of a state openly states that he is investigating the governor for malfeasance and then that governor appoints that attorney general to the Senate seat it looks…

NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by JACOBO MATIAS CASTILLO, SINGLE AND UNMARRIED, to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., on the 16th day of May, 2006, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph…

LEGAL NOTICE GARY INGRAM GRADING & PAVING, INC. hereby gives notice of completion of contract with the State of Alabama for the construction of Project No. STPAA-HSIP-00048(504) in Randolph County. This notice will appear for four consecutive weeks beginning on April 5, 2017 and ending on April 26, 2017. All claims should be file at…

(ROANOKE) Eddie Robert “Doo-Baby” Baker, 69, of Government Street, Roanoke, died Monday evening, March 27, 2017, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika. The funeral was Friday, March 31, at 1 p.m. at First Baptist Church, Riley Street, with the Revs. Gilbert Staples and William R. Terry officiating. Burial followed in Wehadkee Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery.…

(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Michael “Mike G” Robertson, 36, of Wedowee will be Friday, April 7, 2017, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel with Elder Thomas Knight officiating. Burial will follow at Pine Flat Primitive Baptist Church. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday. Mr. Robertson died…

(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Jean Carden Hall, 79, of Roanoke will be Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at 2:30 p.m. at Rock Mills First United Methodist Church with the Revs. Frank Korb and Paul Messer officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the church from 1-2:30 p.m. prior to…

(WADLEY) Funeral services for Clyde Eugene Dobson Sr., 88, of Wadley will be Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at noon at Macedonia Baptist Church with Bro. Donald Jones officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. on Tuesday. Mr. Dobson will lie in state…

(LINEVILLE) Funeral services for Rodney “Rollo” “Tank” Morrison, 71, of Lineville will be Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at 3 p.m. at Union Baptist Church with the Rev. Ed Halsey and Dr. Steve Dempsey officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from noon-2:30 p.m. on Tuesday.…

(WEST POINT, Ga.) Ethel Embrey Mitchell, 94, of West Point, Ga., died Thursday evening, March 30, 2017, at Opal’s Personal Care Home in LaGrange, Ga., after an extended illness. The funeral was Sunday, April 2, at 3 p.m. EDT at Hunter-Allen-Myhand Funeral Home in LaGrange with the Rev. David Cross officiating. Interment was in Lebanon…

(DAYTON, Ohio) Herman Anderson Rutlin, 69, died Wednesday, 29, 2017. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 4, at Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, Dayton. Interment will follow at Dayton National Cemetery. Born Oct. 7, 1947, in Wedowee and a resident of Dayton the majority of his life, Herman was a veteran of the…

(OXFORD) The funeral for Jewell New Craven of Oxford was Saturday, April 1, at Miller’s Funeral Home in Oxford at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Keener Hudson officiating. Mrs. Craven died at Brookwood Medical Center in Birmingham on Wednesday, March 29. Mrs. Craven was a person of strong faith and had great love for her…