OZARK – A Dale County man charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting toward a police officer with the officer’s own gun was up against video footage of the incident on Tuesday.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama Senate committee has voted to make it illegal to send and read text messages while driving.

Matt Ludlam said Tuesday it was blind trust that led him to sign off on fake invoices from a fictitious business created by his brother to defraud a local trucking company.

On Thursday, March 5, the City of Dothan will hold a public meeting regarding Solomon Park. The meeting is at 6 p.m. at Westgate Recreation Center.

An Alford, Fla., mechanic and tire salesman accused of pocketing the sales tax he collected is now facing drug charges as well.

Participation in iRecycle, a pilot project begun by the City of Dothan last July, was about as expected.

Now is the time for review and decision. Dothan officials must decide whether or not to expand recycling citywide.

Dothan police charged a 27-year-old man with stealing $4,000 from the International Association of Machinists.

A Houston County Circuit Judge threw out five theft counts against a Wiregrass man charged with participating in a scheme to defraud a local trucking company.

An executive with a local trucking company said misplaced trust was the main reason someone was able to bilk the company for more than $2 million over a span of 10 years.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Clooney apparently had a good reason for skipping out on Oscar night: He had a meeting with President Obama.

Dothan police investigators responded to an armed robbery at a Hop-In convenience store Monday.

Dothan police arrested a 50-year-old man Friday and charged him with stealing $2,174 from the owner of D’Monico’s Italian Gardens restaurant.

A Dothan man faces a felony drug charge after police arrested him Sunday when they responded to a shooting in a nightclub parking lot.

Dothan police investigators charged Tommy Ray Davis, of Brittney Drive, over the weekend and charged him with second-degree assault.

I haven’t met so many ignorant people in my life until I moved to the South. Some of the opinions I read in this newspaper are outrageous.

How many people who voted for Obama knew he was bent this way?

I was able to bring him home in better condition than he has been in in many months.

Blue laws, which were created to prohibit shopping on Sunday, have been systematically dismantled since World War II. Many states are now considering the elimination of bans on Sunday alcohol sales as a means to address budget shortfalls in these lean economic times.

OZARK — Dale County commissioners are reconsidering how the county government building can be used during closed hours and are at odds on who should care for the building during those hours.

OZARK – Dale County Probate Judge and commission chairperson Eunice Hagler said she’s not running again in 2012.

OZARK – After looking into a 6-year-old’s eyes and hearing how a grown man sexually abused her, Dale County District Attorney Kirke Adams doesn’t believe even the largest sentence a Daleville man will get for pleading guilty to the crime will be fitting punishment.

It took a Houston County woman less than 10 seconds to point out the man who she says assaulted and robbed her the day after Christmas in 2006.

Love birds Michael Pastelak and Becky Dunn have been bitten by the dog bug.

Mychaela Weekly could barely talk above a whisper as the production crew mic’ed her up.

The Dothan City School Board on Monday approved a $3.5 million bid to renovate Dothan High School’s science and arts building.

Dothan businessman Mike Schmitz has called a press conference for Thursday to announce his intent to run for mayor of Dothan.

County officials will do about $300,000 worth of site preparation work at Rehobeth High School so that the school can expand its field house and band hall.

A pregnant mother who authorities said admitted using cocaine during her pregnancy has agreed to go to rehabilitation.

Matt Ludlam says he is not his brother’s keeper. And he says he was not a co-conspirator with his brother in a multi-million dollar scheme that defrauded a local trucking company of more than $2 million.

Dothan police arrested a 39-year-old man Saturday and charged him with felony assault on a business owner.