Cottonwood News

Lillie Mae Sistrunk felt a little bit better than a kid on Christmas Day last year when people came to her door bearing gifts.

A plan to nix one detention pond on the Westway development on U.S. 84 West and put in another one - more removed from existing Westbrook property owners - did not bode well with city planning staff.

Wilson is in charge of funeral arrangements. Mr. Eugene Coker went home to be with our Lord on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at the Southeast Alabama Medical Center surrounded by love with his family and Pastor Allen Leach present after an extended illness.

A Troy University Dothan campus professor has been charged with sexual abuse involving a student.

An Enterprise man wanted by the Houston County Sheriff's Office turned himself in Wednesday on burglary related charges.

Authorities have arrested a Cottonwood man on nearly two dozen child porn related charges.

Dothan police arrested a Troy University employee Wednesday with sex abuse of a 21-year-old woman.

On November 4, 2009, Dothan Police arrested white male Ronald Phillip Bae, 62 years of age of Cottonwood, Alabama for Sexual Abuse First Degree.

County officials will consider several liquor license applications for Country Crossing Thursday during their 10 a.m. meeting on the third floor of the Houston County Administative Building located on North Oates Street.

Each year, there's one contest that people look forward to when the National Peanut Festival rolls around - the recipe contest.

Tony Westbrook stood before the cameras at Country Crossing wearing muddy boots and a weathered expression.

A Duke University police officer facing rape and sodomy charges of an area woman was declared indigent on Wednesday.

Dothan Planning Commissioners approved a 120-day extension on Wednesday for the redevelopment project at Northside Mall.

Houston County Sheriff's investigators have arrested two Wiregrass men as part of an ongoing investigation into a series of residential burglaries.

Little Miss Henry County Camilla Lane Crenshaw was crowned Little Miss National Peanut Festival Saturday night at the Dothan Civic Center.

The Houston County Commission will use leftover bond money to upgrade five dirt roads and to fix a dangerous intersection in Ardilla, located along Cottonwood Road.

A Cottonwood man was killed in a two-vehicle accident in Ashford Thursday morning.

Houston County Sheriff's deputies charged a Cottonwood man earlier this week with possession a stolen tractor trailer.

Sheriff's deputies from at least four different Wiregrass agencies recently increased patrols after more than two dozen burglaries were reported to the authorities.

Dothan police arrested two Cottonwood residents on Monday, including a teenage girl, on charges in connection to a robbery at Wal-Mart. According to a Dothan police statement, police charged Heather Lyn Ballew, 33, and Caitlin Johnson, 17, both of Lewis Street, each with a single felony count of third-degree robbery.