Former Meadowcraft chief financial officer Larry Gene Maynor has been charged with fraud totaling more than $5 million, according to U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick Maley.A Department of Justice press release June 29 said that day a one-count indictment charging him with wire fraud was filed in U.S.…
A third hearing on realigning Alabama Highway 22 at the North Main Street intersection to connect with U.S. Highway 431 will be held Tuesday, July 12, at city hall. From 4 to 6 p.m. the public is welcomed to look at the Alabama Department of Transportation plans to re-route the state highway to avoid downtown…
In a meeting of beginnings and endings Roanoke Schools Superintendent Chuck Marcum swore in new board member Marianne Jordan and presented a plaque to Don Strength upon his resignation. Jordan replaces outgoing Timothy Foster. She is well known to the board and superintendent due to her work in the community and on the Superintendent’s Advisory…
ST. LOUIS, Mo.–Charter Communications, Inc. will assume operation of Roanoke’s cable TV service (currently Communicomm) as the result of an agreement with current operator James Cable, LLC to trade systems located in Georgia and Alabama. Under the agreement, Charter will trade its Douglas, Ga. systems, which serve a total of approximately 5,500 customers, to James…
During the Fourth of July holiday a bunch of items, best described as a dump, was deposited on the right side of Maple Drive, creating a major clean-up problem for the Roanoke Streets Department near the old depot. Already struggling with picking up all the limb and tree debris knocked down by storms, Streets Supervisor…
Roanoke Police Department is investigating a possible arson at a rental house on Friday night. According to the report, the fire was reported at 743 Peachtree St. and caused damage around the back door and back wall from the outside of the wood-frame house. It is owned by Barry Bozeman of Roanoke but was not…
Randolph County Narcotics Unit arrested five people while executing two search warrants in Roanoke on Friday. Following the execution of a search warrant at 632 Strozier St., they arrested the occupants, Amy Ursel Henderson, 33, and Timothy Jermain Winston, 32, charging both with possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana. Officers were on…
Next week the annual traveling rabies clinic returns, with Roanoke veterinarian Paul McMurray making stops throughout the county throughout the week to make it convenient for pet owners to have their dogs and cats vaccinated for rabies. A schedule of his stops is in the advertisement on page 3A. Rabies is a preventable viral disease…
Here’s how we should fix the Legislature By BOB MARTIN I’ve watched our Legislature operate up close for more years than I would ever have wished. Many have paid lip service toward reforming its practices and mores but little has been accomplished. Basically it operates about the same as it did when my centurion friend,…
I’m a little sore today. Today being Tuesday when I’m writing this. But in all honesty, I won’t feel much better by Wednesday when this edition of The Leader is in your hands. The reason I’m sore is simple. My family is overly competitive. I had a thought while preparing to write this column that…
The question came up just last week-how would I rate Cam Newton among the great SEC football players I have seen in my almost half a century of covering Southeastern Conference football. My initial reaction was that he would rank right up there among the top four or five football players I had seen since…
A commentary on race in Dixie With all the Southern Democrats switching over to being Republicans and with the Republicans, wary of whom they might discover had become a member of their group, drawing up a list of what it takes to be a Republican, I got to wondering just what if I could draw…
A wonderful program on television the other night highlighted immigrants who were being sworn in as citizens of the United States. It tracked their joy at becoming American citizens and what that means. Some wore the headscarves of a Muslim while others were from Israel or Yemen or Germany. But they all showed great happiness.…
(ROANOKE) Memorial services for Michael S. Lambert, 61, of Roanoke will be Wednesday, July 6, 2011, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Tim Whaley officiating. Mr. Lambert died Sunday, July 3, at his home. A Roanoke native, Mr. Lambert was born Sept. 21, 1949, son of Walter Calvin and Erma Kay…
(DADEVILLE) The funeral for DeWitt French, 80, of Dadeville will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 5, 2011, at the chapel of Alabama Funeral Homes in Dadeville, with the Rev. Joe Bob Traylor officiating. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until time of service at Alabama Funeral Homes. Mr. French, father of The French Sisters,…
(WADLEY) The funeral for Rodger Dell Whitten, 60, of Wadley will be Monday, July 4, 2011, at 2 p.m. at Soul’s Harbor Baptist Church with the Revs. Fred Flowers and Otis Hodnett officiating. Burial will follow in Concord Baptist Church Cemetery. Mr. Whitten died Friday, July 1, at Wedowee Hospital. Mr. Whitten was born June…
(WATKINSVILLE, Ga.) Laverne T. Hayes, 85, died Friday, July 1, 2011. A native of Greene County, Ga., she was a daughter of the late Lloyd M. and Thelma Satcher Teet and was preceded in death by two husbands, William G. “Jake” Hayes and John T. Walls Sr.; and a son, John T. Walls Jr. Mrs.…
The deadline for the July 6 issue of The Randolph Leader will be Monday, July 4, at 3 p.m. The Randolph Leader office WILL be open on Monday.
(ATLANTA) A celebration of life for Cornell Foster of Atlanta will be Saturday, July 2, 2011, at 1 p.m. at Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Newell, Ala., with the Rev. David Staples officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be Friday from 6-7 p.m. EDT at Wings of Faith Worldwide Ministries, Conley,…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Joe Thomas “Tom” Carden, 83, of Roanoke will be at 11 a.m., Friday, July 1, 2011, at Antioch Christian Church with the Revs. Floyd Carmack and Anthony Herren officiating. Mr. Carden will lie in state at the church for one hour before the service. Burial will follow in the adjoining church…