Several people were arrested and more may be arrested after a call of a civil disturbance with shots fired on Centerway Drive late Saturday night.Around 40 people were in the yard when Roanoke Police Department officers arrived. As an officer was attempting to arrest Charlie Kyles Jr., 48, of 543 Seymour Dr., Roanoke, three people…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY NOTICE OF INTENT TO OBTAIN LICENSE TO SALE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Alabama Crown Distributing Inc. hereby notifies the public at large that he/she intents to apply for a Wine and Beer Wholesale Distributor License. The premises at which Alabama Crown Distributing Inc. wishes to sale Alcoholic Beverages is located at 1330…
Roanoke police are investigating an incident from March 29 in which a man was severely injured when he fell out of a moving vehicle on Louina Road. According to the report, Walter Randolph Hunt, 43, of 405 Price St., Roanoke, was a passenger in a 2005 Mercury Mariner SUV when he fell out in the…
My buddy John is a sociologist. He is also a historian. It is an uncommon combination, which means John keeps up with, and even understands, data and surveys and polling, which most historians don’t. Aware of this shortcoming among the rest of us, John frequently sends folks like me interesting tidbits that come in a…
In a night gone very wrong in December of 2011 a one-vehicle crash in Chambers County killed one Southern Union State Community College student and injured three others. Another SUSCC student, the driver, Sandy Jose Tiburcio, then 19, of Mt. Vernon, N.Y, was arrested, placed in the Chambers County Jail, and subsequently charged with homicide.…
I recall the first time I visited Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn. It was 1958 and I was with my high school’s track team for a meet. It was Cliff Hare Stadium back then, home of the 1957 National Football Champions, but the north end zone was still a grassy knoll. The south end was awaiting…
Kitty Cowhick, a 1977 Wadley High School graduate, is embarking on a book tour publicizing her book “Hammer Down,” that was published April 2. The book about a rookie truck driver, is a Christian fiction story, but she draws on her 25 years of experience in the trucking industry from dispatcher/driver to terminal manager, she…
Have you ever made a promise you knew you couldn’t keep? I sure did every time Mama took a switch to me. “I promise, I promise I won’t ever do it again,” I hollered as I tried to dance out of her reach. Unfortunately, when you strip all the rhetoric away, when you cast aside…
(WOODLAND) Garner Maddox of Woodland died Saturday, April 13, 2013. He was 79. The funeral will be Tuesday, April 16, at noon CDT at Bethel East Baptist Church. Bro. Brad Horton and Bro. Russell Calhoun will officiate. Prior to the services, Mr. Maddox’s body will lie in-state at the church for one hour. Interment will…
(FRANKLIN, Ga.) Jearlene Johnson Strickland, 85, of Franklin, Ga., died Friday, April 12, 2013, at West Georgia Health. The celebration of life service will be Tuesday, April 16, at 1 p.m. EDT at Mount Carrie Missionary Baptist Church, Franklin, with the Rev. Ronnie Jones and minister Starsky Jones officiating. Burial will be in the Stateline…
(GADSDEN) Funeral services for Mary Evelyn Nolan Womack, 91, of Gadsden, who died Wednesday, April 10, 2013, will be at 3 p.m. Friday, April 12, at Crestwood Chapel with Chaplain Ronnie Holmes officiating. Burial will be in Crestwood Cemetery. Mrs. Womack was born in Roanoke, Ala., and had lived in Gadsden for the past 23…
(PENSACOLA, Fla.) Tommie Dorothy Lipham Traylor died Tuesday, April 9, 2013. A memorial service will be conducted by the Rev. Ron Lentine, pastor of Myrtle Grove Baptist Church, at Oak Lawn Funeral Home, 619 New Warrington Rd., Pensacola, on Saturday, April 13, at 2 p.m., with a reception to follow. Mrs. Traylor was born on…
(LINEVILLE) Funeral services for James Phillip “Phil” Hill, 43, of Lineville, formerly of Roanoke, will be at 4 p.m., Friday, April 12, 2013, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Keith Benefield officiating. Burial will follow in Wehadkee Cemetery, Roanoke. Mr. Hill died Wednesday, April 10, at his residence. Mr. Hill was born Dec. 1,…
(AUBURN) Graveside service for Ann Brown Wilson, 78, of Auburn will be at noon Friday, April 12, 2013, in Garden Hills Cemetery. The Rev. Paul Gregor is officiating. Mrs. Wilson died Tuesday, April 9, at Arbor Springs Health & Rehab Center. She was born March 1, 1935, in Randolph County and had been a resident…
Funeral Services for Alma Jean Turner Houston will be at 1 p.m. CDT Friday, April 12, 2013, at Union Chapel United Methodist Church, Wedowee. Interment will be at Mount Olive United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wadley. Mrs. Houston, 58, died Friday, April 5, at Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton, Ga. Visitation is Wednesday from noon-8 p.m.…
The public hearing in Montgomery regarding the new Tobacco Tax Bill has been postponed. We will let the public know when we have an update on the public hearing. Community Forum at Awbrey Public Library scheduled for later today has been postponed. The forum at the library will be Monday at 6 p.m.
The Roanoke Academy of Ballet and the Dance Center on Main in Wedowee have cancelled classes this afternoon because of the weather.
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Thelma Nichols Sledge, 71, of Roanoke will be Friday, April 12, 2013, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Jamie Taylor and Tim Whaley officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. Mrs. Sledge died Tuesday, April 9, at her home. A lifelong Randolph County resident, Mrs. Sledge…
(FLORENCE, S.C.) Claire Lester Leach, 90, of Florence, S.C., died Sunday, April 7, 2013. A memorial service will be Wednesday, April 10, at 4 p.m. at Cain Funeral Home. She was born in Dadeville, a daughter of the late Carl and Reba Coker Lester. She attended Berry College in Rome, Ga., and years later her…
(ALEXANDER CITY) Funeral service for Austin Marvin Gandy Sr. and Debra Kay Gandy of Alexander City will be Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 2 p.m. at Comer Memorial United Methodist Church. They will lie in-state one hour prior to the service. The Revs. Bill Gandy and Lynn Peters will officiate. Burial will follow in Alexander…