Houston County News

Houston County continues to grow and that means more traffic comes along too. Roadwork costs a lot of taxpayer dollars, which is why 2.1 million dollars in stimulus money from the metropolitan planning organization is coming in handy.

Former University of Alabama football player Siran Stacy is suing the Dothan/Houston County E911 Board and the estate of a drunken driver who caused a fatal 2007 crash.

A Houston County family is without a home after it caught fire Monday night. It happened around midnight off summer road in Malvern.

The manager and a dancer of a Houston County gentleman's club face felony charges after they were arrested over the weekend.

HOUSTON COUNTY: Across the east side of Houston County, areas from Dairy Fresh to AMX on 84 West and to Cottonwood there is a reported power outage.

Dothan Police Investigators responded to Enterprise Alabama and arrested Hispanic male Jesus Torras, 35 years of age of East Main Street in Dothan.

One year after authorities say two men shot and killed Christopher Woods during a burglary at his Dothan home, one of the two suspected gunmen remains at large.

Authorities say a fire in a storage shed that killed a 55-year-old woman was an arson.

Police Cap. Steve Parrish says 28-year-old Carlos Commacho Miller has been charged with burglary and sexual abuse in the Wednesday incident.

A Houston County circuit judge has denied a new trial for a man who is on death row for the 2000 slaying of an 87-year-old woman.

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 4:00 a.m. Police and fire investigators are trying to determine the circumstances surrounding a storage shed fire that apparently resulted in a Dothan woman's death.

DOTHAN: Tropical storm Ida will have lost most of its punch by the time it reaches our area according to Irv Watson, a science officer with the National Weather Service in Tallahassee.

HOUSTON COUNTY: Houston County Sheriff Communications has dispatched law enforcement and medical to 3003 CURTIS MIXON RD/GORDON in reference to a stabbing.

The Houston County's Sheriff's Office chaplain reportedly confessed to Sheriff Andy Hughes that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old Dothan girl.

A Houston County jury found a Dothan teenager not guilty Thursday of stealing a 12-pack of beer from a man at gunpoint.

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

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.

Some things just seem to go together. Bacon and eggs. Peanut butter and jelly. Starsky and Hutch.

The Bay County Health Department is holding a seasonal flu clinic through Wednesday.

A judge sentenced three Wiregrass men on Wednesday to serve time in prison for unrelated armed robberies in Dothan, including one at a local grocery store which left the store owner seriously injured from gunfire.