Headland News

FRIDAY, JULY 3 ETC. 2009 Freedom Fest will be held Friday, July 3, on Fort Rucker at Festival Fields on Andrews Avenue from 4-11 p.m. Fireworks begin at 9 p.m.; a post party will be from 9:30-11 p.m., featuring the band Infamy.

The race begins across Alabama. Candidates for governor are reaching out to voters.

Wiregrass residents will have their share of fireworks over the Fourth of July with celebrations spread out over the three-day holiday weekend.

Today, Cowboy's hosted a memorial for Shane Owen's keyboardist, Danny Ladon Whigham.

SATURDAY, JUNE 27 MUSIC Derek Kinsaul, an acoustic musician, will perform Saturday, June 27, at 10 a.m. in Poplar Head Park in downtown Dothan during the Poplar Head Farmers Market.

A new plan to combine three law enforcement agencies in one Wiregrass county is raising concern over the fine print.

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

Durell Whiddon peruses the documents in the red folder as he stands near the bench in the courtroom of the Henry County Courthouse.

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.

FRIDAY, JUNE 12 ETC. Foster Fest will be held in downtown Dothan on Friday, June 12, from 6-9 p.m. Street rods, antique cars, muscle cars, imports, low-riders, rat-rods and motorcycles takes place on the second Friday of each month in the parking lot behind the Houston County Courthouse at the corner of East Main and North Foster streets.

Those who responded to a deadly Henry County shootout in April involving police were honored Monday.

A benefit sing for Gene Hale will be held on Saturday, June 13, at 6 p.m. at Gateway Church on Highway 134 west of Headland featuring Crimson River, John Ard and the Grimes Gospel Lighthouse Singers.

Dothan police arrested two Headland men Tuesday night on charges they robbed a Kmart.

State authorities arrested a former Headland police officer Thursday on charges he improperly used the state police records system.

Henry County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a 21-year-old Headland man and charged him with manslaughter in the death of his 19-year-old girlfriend.

A former law enforcement officer was arrested on Thursday for the illegal use of state computer databases.

Henry County Sheriff's deputies served a grand jury indictment against a Henry County teenager charged with manslaughter in a fatal wreck nearly two years ago.

Headland, Alabama holds its roots in agriculture. It's a farmer's homeland, and the community wants to get back to the basics and take advantage of what's around them.

The town of Headland doubled in size over the past couple years. It leaves the Headland Police Department with double the ground cover.

Here is the situation, parents in the Headland community have called me very upset because their children were not allowed to walk in the graduation exercises held Monday evening at Headland High School.