Dothan police arrested a teenager on Labor Day in connection to the stabbing of two women during an attempted sexual assault.

The prepared text of President Barack Obama’s back-to-school address scheduled for Tuesdays, as released in advance by the White House.

A helicopter suffered what Fort Rucker authorities called a hard landing Tuesday morning at Allen Stage Field in Wicksburg.

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — In a pep talk that kept clear of politics, President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged the nation’s students to take pride and ownership in their education — and stick with it even if they don’t like every class or must overcome tough circumstances at home.

LONDON (AP) — A set of roomy bloomers that once belonged to Queen Victoria are back in royal drawers.

Five teenagers face attempted murder and robbery charges after Elba police arrested them over the Labor Day holiday.

Public school absentee rates also significantly higher, likely due to swine flu.

Dothan City Commissioners confirmed former Personell Board Chairman Gary Griffin as the city’s new EEO Training Officer Tuesday on a 4-3 vote.

LONDON (AP) — Gold prices rose above $1,000 per ounce on Tuesday to its highest since March 2008 — suggesting investors are wary of the U.S. dollar’s weakness and expect international interest rates to remain low for some time.

Every time Jared May drove on Westgate Parkway the past few months, he would see the giant water tower with “Water World” written across it, but it wasn’t until Labor Day, the park’s final open day of the season, that he decided to take his family.

The search for an Enterprise boy who went missing Saturday ended Monday afternoon when recovery workers discovered his body near a boat ramp in Clayhatchee.

Lee Bush said his family was what kept each other together.

Governor Bob Riley has yet to make an appointment for the Dale County District 2 Commission seat, according to his office.

We haven’t seen the text of President Obama’s remarks, but it’s a good bet there’s no mind control involved. And as far as his administration’s “socialist agenda” goes, it may be instructive to compare our nation’s public education system and compulsory attendance laws to one of the tenets laid out by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels in The Communist Manifesto: “Free public education for all children.”

Many parents are upset that President Barack Obama will address their kids in class via television about the importance of education Tuesday.

Soon-to-be Dothan Mayor Mike Schmitz walked into the Blue Moon Cafe downtown, shook hands with Congressman Bobby Bright, sat down and delivered the line of the day.

Andrew Salter, an 18-year-old freshman at the Troy campus who had attended Ashford High School, died Friday at Southeast Alabama Medical Center. 

A search continued Sunday for 14-year-old Stephen Bush, a missing Enterprise teenager authorities believe drowned in the Choctawhatchee River.

The third annual fundraising collaboration between The Dothan Eagle and the Wiregrass United Way Food Bank brought in nearly $11,000.

A Houston County judge found sufficient evidence that a 63-year-old Dothan woman shot her husband after she apparently found him with another woman.

Sharon Lewis-Saliba and all her young protégés will soon be back in the limelight.

A Dothan bridge replacement project scheduled to be completed this month will likely be delayed until Halloween or longer, and could exceed the original $2.1 million pricetag.

Houston County Sheriff’s investigators charged a Florida man Thursday with trying to kill a county narcotics agent.

Jayden Lacy was just 9 months old when her dad deployed to Iraq.

Henry County Sheriff’s investigators arrested the former CEO of a local bio-fuel company on charges he stole from his own company.

A Dothan man received a sentence of more than eight years in federal prison on Thursday afternoon for the attempted distribution of cocaine.

Officials with Houston County and Dothan City Schools say there are no current plans to broadcast President Barack Obama’s national address to students on Tuesday.

A Dothan man acquitted of a murder charge last year, and who was out on bond for a felony drug charge, was among six people arrested on various drug charges by police at a Dothan apartment.

Dustin Corley is coming up on his third month on the job at the Country Crossing development south of Dothan.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing eroding public support for the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon chief said Thursday that the Obama administration’s effort in the eight-year-old conflict is “only now beginning.“