Dothan High School will host an education summit on Wednesday from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at Greater Beulah Baptist Church.

Girard Middle School recently hosted a special guest speaker, Capt. Winston E. Scott, U.S. Navy, retired, NASA astronaut. He completed two space missions.

On Saturday, 12 K-8 teachers will participate in Fly-A-Teacher Day at the Dothan Airport, said Sandy Armstrong, director of the Math and Science Consortium. The flights will start at 9 a.m.

On March 6, Girard Elementary School is having a Learn-a-thon. The theme is “Launch Into Learning.”

BIRMINGHAM — Six students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre were honored for their work at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival regional competition Feb. 3-8, in Greensboro, N.C. One student, Dustin Cañez, will travel to Washington, D.C., in April for the national competition, all expenses paid.

The country stands to lose a sizable chunk of economic activity in 2009 as consumers at home and abroad retrench in the face of persistent economic troubles. And the U.S. unemployment rate — now at 7.6 percent, the highest in more than 16 years — is expected hit a peak of 9 percent this year.

FORT BLISS, Texas — As soldiers stream home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the biggest charity inside the U.S. military has been stockpiling tens of millions of dollars meant to help put returning fighters back on their feet, an Associated Press investigation shows.

The Dothan area chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution increased its membership by a quarter in one day.

Jurors were expected to hear evidence in the capital murder charge filed against the first of three men charged in a fatal robbery at a Dothan apartment complex.

A Cottonwood woman was seriously injured after a pickup truck struck her Friday as she walked her dog.

The following people were arrested by the Dothan Police Department and charged with a felony crime. They have not been convicted. Information was provided by the Dothan Police Department.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Salvadoran immigrant convicted of attacking two women in the park where Chandra Levy’s remains were found was expected to be arrested in the next few days in the former intern’s slaying, a person close to the investigation said.

Emergency workers in Echo hoisted Dawn Peters onto a stretcher Saturday and lifted her into a helicopter.

An Ashford man died in a single-vehicle crash early Sunday morning a few miles outside Gordon.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s outgoing prime minister called on hard-line Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government quickly as coalition bargaining shifted into high gear Sunday.

WHAT: Houston County Commission
WHEN: 10 a.m. Monday
WHERE: 3rd floor, Houston County Administration Building, North Oates Street

BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging China to continue investing in United States Treasury bonds and said Sunday that country’s continued investment in the U.S. is a recognition that the two countries depend on each other.

The writing’s on the wall, and it ain’t in cursive.

Unfortunately, a law prohibiting texting while driving would be virtually impossible to enforce and would do nothing more than kill a lot of trees for the reams of paperwork it would require.

I am not a Harvard Business School graduate, but when I don’t understand something, I ask questions.

Is this the “change” we were promised?

The following people were arrested by the Dothan Police Department and charged with a felony crime. They have not been convicted. Information was provided by the Dothan Police Department.

Even the best window dressing can’t pretty up the gloomy 2009 retail picture.

Pamela Jewel James, 33, of Sixth Avenue, faces a felony drug charge after Dothan police investigators seized several bags of meth-amphatamine during a traffic stop in the 1200 block of St. Peter Street on Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Banks got bailed out. So did automakers. So why not struggling homeowners?

A two vehicle accident has been reported at Park and Main in front of CVS Pharmacy in Dothan. A staff member is on the scene.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday rejected his transportation secretary’s suggestion that the administration consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy.

NEW YORK (AP) — The California fertility doctor who implanted the octuplet mom with lots of embryos was no lone wolf: Fewer than 20 percent of U.S. clinics follow professional guidelines on how many embryos should be used for younger women.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday rejected his transportation secretary’s suggestion that the administration consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy.

Kelly Springs Elementary School students took an unorthodox approach to presenting a black history program Friday.