Dothan News Archives

A new memorial in Dothan celebrates the city's Peanut Man. Byron Trawick sold boiled peanuts in Dothan for the past 13 years.

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

A judge sentenced an Ashford sex offender Wednesday to serve five years in prison for working too close to a school.

Webster Delenn Simmons: Duke University police officer declared indigent after being charged him with felony first-degree rape and felony first-degree sodomy in Dothan, Ala., case.

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A Duke University police officer is facing rape charges in Dothan, Alabama. According to Houston County authorities, they arrested 37-year-old Webster Delenn Simmons of Rougemont, NC Monday after a woman reported the alleged attack.

A Midland City woman has been charged with stealing more than $4,000 from the Parent Teacher Association chapter where she was president.

JASPER - A judge ruled Monday that bingo halls in Walker County that use electronic player stations are illegal and has ordered the halls to shut down immediately.

Dozens of wiregrass residents pounded the pavement Saturday morning for a good cause.

A committee tasked with finding the best possible site for a new Dothan library is prepared to recommend a renovation and expansion of the current site, transforming it into a library campus that comprises an entire city block.

A shooting reported near downtown Dothan early Thursday evening , but police say the incident appears to be a false alarm.

DOTHAN, Ala. - Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson says investigators have filed charges against a man and are looking for a second WTVY News 4 has confirmed that Jarmon Demetrius Barrow, 23 of Brundidge, was charged with capital murder.

By the time a 25-year-old Dothan man gets tried for the capital murder charge filed against him, the slaying which led to the charge will be almost six years old.

Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson told the Dothan Eagle that investigators expect to file at least one capital murder charge in the home invasion slaying of a 43-year-old Level Plains man on Sunday evening.

Dothan police arrested two men over the weekend as part of an armed robbery and kidnapping that apparently stemmed from a dispute over drug money.

Oct. 18--A Georgia man died early Sunday morning after he jumped from a pickup truck being driven by his brother.

A Houston County judge denied a bond reduction request Friday for a 43-year-old Dothan man charged with holding a woman at gunpoint during a recent residential burglary.

Dothan police arrested a Dothan woman Sunday and charged her with forging her prescription in order to receive 10 times the amount of pain medication the doctor ordered.

On Friday October 16, 2009, Dothan Police Investigators arrested black male, James Michael Daniels, 18 years of age of Dusy Street with an additional count of Robbery First Degree.

A Marianna man charged with attempted murder tried to run over a Houston County Sheriff's deputy with his vehicle before leading officers on a chase through Dothan, according to the deputy.

A Houston County judge sentenced a Dothan man to serve 40 years in prison for the rape of a woman he was charged with grabbing off the street and sexually assaulting inside his van, the Dothan Eagle reported this morning.

Dothan police arrested six people over the past three days in connection to multiple armed robberies, including one at the Church's Chicken restaurant Monday night.

On Monday October 12, 2009 at approximately 9:00 p.m., Dothan Police responded to Church's Chicken located in the 500 block of North Oates Street reference to a Robbery.

Saturday, October 10, 2009 Dothan Police responded to a Robbery call in the 2200 block of Ross Clark Circle .

Rides and lights seem embedded into the night sky. The sounds of joyful shrieks slice through the air as the ferris wheel comes to a stop.

A Dothan man died early Saturday during a single-vehicle crash on Murphy Mill Road in Dothan.

Leroy Bush says, "I know I was the apple of his eye. My dad and I had a real special relationship and so about that time I heard a lady scream, he's got a gun and my dad shot himself." Leroy Bush was only 25-years-old when he heard his father take his own life on the other end of the phone.

A Dothan driver is safe after a close encounter with a train. Eddie Thomas' car was hit by a Abbeville-Grimes local locomotive Thursday afternoon while he was driving home from work.

It's case closed for the Dothan Police Department. Thuesday morning, detectives identified a suspect in Wednesday's burglary and attempted rape on Allen Road, and around lunchtime, they had him behind bars.

A Houston County judge called the the crimes allegedly committed by three men acts of vigilante justice.

Prosecutors say a Dothan man received a life sentence Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to using a liquor bottle as his weapon during an armed robbery of a Dothan business.

Each year close to 3,000 people die as a result of home fires and burns in the entire state of Alabama.

Two separate Wiregrass teenagers pleaded guilty Monday to using guns during three unrelated armed robberies over the past year.

A recent Dothan murder was gang-related, a police detective said during a bond hearing Friday at the Houston County Courthouse.

After the second act of violence linked to a Dothan pool hall within the last 10 days, the business' owner will soon be closing its doors for good.

The Dothan City School Board welcomed three new members and one familiar face Thursday night.

The following people were arrested by the Dothan Police Department and charged with a felony crime.

Members of the community came together tonight at the Dothan Civic Center Arena to witness the Oath of Office to a new Mayor, a new Commissioner, and the return of two Commissioners.