Slocomb News

Officials have discovered more than $200,000 in forged checks and credit card fraud as well as over fifty items of stolen property ranging from utility trailers to golf cards.

Some Slocomb farmers have already lost nearly half their tomato crops this season to the same disease that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s.

It's time for the 4th of July which means food, fun and most importantly- fireworks.

Wooten earns $2,512 as the co-angler winner Saturday thanks to five bass weighing 21 pounds, 9 ounces.

Mavis Lindsey just wanted to see if she could win when she entered the Ms. Geneva County Senior Citizen pageant.

State Rep. Jay Love will seek another term representing House District 74. Love made the announcement Tuesday, citing a possible Republican takeover of the Alabama House in the 2010 election cycle.

Visitors to the 21st Annual Slocomb Tomato Festival didn't let the heat stop them from getting what they love.

Even high temperatures were not keeping farmers and vendors away from earning their paychecks at the festival Saturday.

A single-vehicle crash Friday night in Geneva County killed a local man. Douglas Ryan Smith, 31, Slocomb, was traveling west in a 2008 Chevrolet sport utility vehicle when the vehicle ran off the road.

It wasn't that the crowd didn't appreciate the foot-stomping, hand-clapping, make-you-want-to-dance music that Shane Owens and The Springs provided Saturday afternoon at the 21st Annual Slocomb Tomato Festival, but it was wise to be stationary.

"We are always busier on festival day than any other time," says Beverly Aplin. Aplin helps run Aplin Farms.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19 MUSIC Live music by 2 Simple Rules on Friday, June 19, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Koinonia Kaffe, 11 Grove St., on the square in Headland.

A Slocomb man received a dozen years in federal prison Tuesday for possession with intent to distribute more than half a kilogram of cocaine from a Dothan hotel room.

The developer, Aranov, discovered that the site for one of the new Publix stores at Highway 53 and Ross Clark Circle is contaminated and must be cleaned up.

On Friday, June 12, 2009, the Slocomb Police Department was fitted for new Level IIA Bullet Resistance vest.

According to a statement from Houston County Sheriff's Capt. Antonio Gonzalez, investigators charged Casie Lynn Pelham, 20, of Slocomb with felony unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

On June 7, 2009 Houston County Sheriff's Deputies imitated a traffic stop at New Hope Rd.

With everything from squash to grass-fed beef and herbs to soaps made with goat milk, the Poplar Head Farmers Market will kick off its inaugural weekend on Saturday.

A majority of state senators and Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. have rejected their 3.8 percent pay raise this year, but few turned down the more than 60 percent raise lawmakers ap proved for themselves in 2007.

The sound of hammering isn't unfamiliar to Wiregrass Habitat for Humanity volunteers, but the setting is.