Ozark News

More than $11 million in road and bridge projects have been approved for the first phase of funding from Gov.

More than 300 bottles of medication were recovered from a vehicle Saturday after two Pensacola, Fla., men broke into an Ozark pharmacy, according to authorities.

OZARK The half-staff American Flag waved in the breeze. An army band played in the background and veterans saluted the fallen as men, women and children gathered in Ozark to remember the country's war dead.

A funeral service for Carroll High School head football coach Stacey Watters and his 10-year-old son Quentin is set for Thursday, and a fund has been set up at Regions Bank for their family.

Lunch at 1 p.m. Ceremony at 2:15 p.m. Call 983-6604 for more information. - Sunset Memorial Park, 1700 Barrington Road, Dothan.

Authorities say an Alabama high school football coach and his 10-year-old son were killed in a central Florida crash.

Dothan Police are looking for a 25-year-old Ozark woman wanted on a fraud charge in connection to the theft of a woman's purse.

A Gurley resident is dead and a woman was in critical condition Monday after a wreck involving at least five people in Ozark on Friday, according to authorities.

Ashton M. Howe-Aley the daughter of George S. Howe and Lynn M. Aley Howe will be graduating Honors from Carroll High School on Thursday evening at 6 PM at the Ozark Civic Center.

Chapter 94, Disabled American Veterans and Auxiliary in conjunction with the city of Ozark will host a Memorial Day Ceremony at Woodlawn Memory Gardens, 531 Hwy 231 in Ozark at 11 AM, 28 May.

Tabernacle United Methodist, 4205 S. Brannon Stand, Taylor, will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new fellowship hall on Sunday, May 20, at noon.

The passage of the state education budget with no required teacher layoffs on Wednesday won't stop layoffs in Ozark's elementary schools, but will reduce the number of teachers not hired back for next school year, Ozark City Schools Superintendent Mike Lenhart said.

Greg Chancey said he's never needed a blood transfusion and doesn't know anyone who may have needed one in the past.

An Ozark man already in the Houston County Jail on charges of robbery of a Dothan fuel station now faces a robbery charge in Ozark, according to authorities.

City Manager Britt Thomas reported that the city's redistricting map is being reviewed by the Justice Department.

Just weeks after Ozark residents had a joint meeting with the Ozark council about centrally locating a pool and recreation center in the Racetrack area off Andrews Avenue, Ozark Mayor Billy Blackwell presented a plan to build a new library and swimming pool near the Flowers Center of Performing Arts on College Street.

US Army Capt. Eric Prazinko addresses an eighth grade class Friday afternoon at D.A. Smith Middle School in Ozark.

Two people, including a three-time convicted felony, remain behind bars after Dothan police charged them with the robbery of a Shell service station at gunpoint Thursday.

An Ozark man who authorities said tried to kill his girlfriend with a gun which never fired pleaded guilty Monday to attempted murder.

Unlike the proud homemade posters and droves of American flags usually waiting for troops who return to the U.S. from various deployments, Vietnam veterans like retired Ozark mayor Bob Bunting weren't often welcomed back home.