If the average household operated its finances like our elected officials ran our state,  we would all go broke.

The Wiregrass is not Phenix City. And Country Crossing is not the end of the world.

I have yet to hear the rationale for condoning one particular bingo entity and targeting another.

Limbaugh is as disengaged as Pat Robertson, who sees the Haiti situation as the results of the nation’s “pact with the devil.”

Almost exactly two years after an Ozark man died from the injuries he suffered when he was struck by a vehicle in a Dothan grocery store parking lot, the wrongful death lawsuit filed by his family remains unresolved.

OZARK — Before 15-year-old Roman Buchanan was able to walk, his father, Johnny, was marching down a segregated Mississippi road with Roman’s grandfather.

A lobbyist for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians organized a luncheon last Friday to discuss a cooperative advertising campaign in light of increasing gaming activity in Alabama.

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley has said anyone who has seen an electronic bingo machine would have a hard time believing they are legal in Alabama.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday and officials said billions of dollars more will be needed following the quake that killed an estimated 200,000 people and left many still struggling to find a cup of water or a handful of food.

A slight chill in the air did not stop Wiregrass residents from participating in the annual march in Dothan to honor the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Troy University Dothan Campus library will continue its year-long international film series starting on Jan. 26.

Ay carumba! Let’s dance the Latin way at Enterprise State Community College’s Enterprise Campus.

AUBURN — The Auburn University College of Liberal Arts, Department of Music, Auburn University bands and the Opelika High School bands are proud to present a Memorial Scholarship Concert for Sarah Anderson on Jan. 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the Opelika Performing Arts Center at Opelika High School.

Dothan City Schools and a delegation from the “Yes We Can!Dothan” education movement made presentations recently to the system’s elementary and secondary Teachers of the Year, Donna Skinner and Jane Brantley.

The Continuing Education Center at Troy University’s Dothan Campus will offer a series of free workshops covering financial planning and advice starting this month.

The weather has affected completion of a trail renovation project on the 3.25 mile path around Westgate Park.

Country Crossing grand opening ceremonies continue with ribbon cuttings.

The only danger in tanning is if you overexpose yourself repeatedly to UV light, not expose yourself. There is a huge difference.

If the bingo machines are determined to be legal, a lot of big, fat apologies are owed.

By focusing his rhetoric and clumsy legal maneuvers on Houston County, is Alabama Gov. Bob Riley trying to uphold the law, or settle a score?

When our kids stopped saying “Aye, aye, sir,” and “Belay that!” to adults, our country began to go down the tubes.

Crowd size at second day of Country Crossing grand opening estimated at close to 30,000.

G.H and Betty Peters say they never asked or applied for any kind of assistance, but have gotten along on their Social Security, while helping to support a recently widowed daughter and a grown son.

A single-vehicle crash early Saturday morning in Pike County killed a 24-year-old Brundidge man.

Dothan city commissioners met with Florida consultant Lyle Sumek this week to discuss goals for the future.

Courts, judicial rulings and attorneys weren’t as important to these people as Confederate Railroad, Restless Heart and Aaron Tippin.

Watch the concerts during the three-day grand opening celebration at Country Crossing.

The country music is still playing and the bingo machines are operating at Country Crossing despite a rash of legal maneuvers Friday that paved the way for a raid by the Governor’s Task Force.

The family of a slain Ozark woman says her former boyfriend repeatedly called her and regularly drove by her home in the days leading up to him shooting her to death.

Federal Judge Myron Thompson has denied a request by Country Crossing for a federal restraining order to stop any potential raids on Country Crossing by Gov. Bob Riley’s task force on illegal gambling.