Houston County News

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.

Houston County, Ala., officials say a member of the governor's staff has reportedly attempted to stop the shipment of 1,703 electronic bingo machines bound for the Country Crossing development south of Dothan, the Dothan Eagle reports.

Yesterday, Wiregrass-area health departments began giving the H1N1 vaccine for the first time.

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.

Since the new strain of flu came out last April, people across the U.S. have been curious about how to protect themselves.

The Houston County Sheriffs Dept and Kinsey Police busted a meth lab after executing a search warrant at 832 Broad St in Kinsey.

A Duke University police officer has been arrested and charged with raping an Alabama woman.

Country Crossing developers continue to protect the project's name every time another electronic bingo hall is shut down.

Today is the start of red ribbon week and the Dothan Houston County Substance Abuse Partnership has decided to paint the town red.

A Houston County woman was killed in a traffic crash Saturday in Daytona Beach, Florida.

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.

DOTHAN: At today's Houston County Commission meeting Chairman Culver announced that it was Bobby Snellgrove's birthday this week.

Houston County Sheriff Andy Hughes said a Kinsey man recently confessed to the burglary of four homes in four different Wiregrass counties.

Houston County Sheriff's deputies recently arrested a Headland man and charged him with possession of morphine at the Houston County Jail.