HOUSTON COUNTY: 12:40 PM Houston County Sheriff 911 dispatched a critical motor vehicle accident on Highway 52 East at Buie Road.
Buie Road intersects HIghway 52 on the east side of Webb, the east side of Highway 55 intersection.
ALEA – Troopers, Houston County Sheriff Deputies, Columbia Police, and Columbia Rescue responded. One person, a male subject, was unresponsive but breathing. There was a female passenger in the vehicle. Both were transported emergency, trauma alert, to Southeast Health.
As law enforcement officers began the investigation it was determined, there was a domestic altercation in progress in the vehicle. The driver is alleged to have began driving erratic, ran off the road and overturned.
Based on the allegations of this accident being an alleged intentional act Houston County Sheriff Criminal Investigation has taken over the investigation because of possible criminal charges.
Law Enforcement had drones deployed mapping out the scene.
The case is under investigation by Houston County Sheriff Department.
OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) – Marion County Sheriff’s deputies located Caden Speight, 17, of Dunnellon, on Friday afternoon in Williston following an overnight search and Amber Alert. Officials say initial claims about a Caden being shot and abducted were unfounded.
Marion County Sheriff’s deputies no longer believe Caden Speight, 17, of Dunnellon, was taken by four Hispanic men as originally reported in an Amber Alert on Thursday night. His disappearance was connected to a shooting in Dunnellon; however, the teen wasn’t wounded.
MARION COUNTY FL: This young man is reported to have family in Dothan Alabama and Jackson County Florida. His dad is reported to live in or near Marion County Florida.
A Florida AMBER Alert has been issued for Caden Speight, 17, of Dunnellon. Sheriff’s deputies confirm he is the victim of a shooting that happened Thursday.
HOUSTON COUNTY: Tonight Mike Schmitz took the opportunity to call out Houston County School Superintendent Brandy White.
This was at the end of the re-election announcement of D-2 Houston County Commissioner Tracy Adams.
Mike Schmitz said from the podium to Supt. Brandy White and the crowd, ” did you know that Houston County School’s were NUMBER 1 in math scores in county schools in the entire State of Alabama?” Supt. Brandy White confirmed that. When confirmed by White, Mike Schmitz said “guys let’s celebrate” which caused a rounding applause.
Then Mike Schmitz went further with Houston County School Supt. Brandy White. “you are number 4 in reading in county schools in the State of Alabama, right?” Then the Mike Schmitz ” WHOA”.
Schmitz said he was not running for anything but is proud of the Houston County School System and the progress made under the leadership of Houston County School Supt. Brandy White.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HOUSTON COUNTY SCHOOLS and Thank you Mike Schmitz for making everyone aware of this.
TUSCALOOSA – MONTGOMERY: In a lawsuit filed by Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox against the Alabama Department of Revenue. The lawsuit concerns the Alabama Sales Tax on items purchased through the internet.
Houston County Commission Chairman Brandon Shoupe was interviewed by 1819 News and critical of Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox and their lawsuit.
Shoupe said in an interview with 1819 News on Thursday, “If the lawsuit is successful, potentially the entire program is in jeopardy and will possibly be declared unconstitutional.”
The state’s online sales tax law is known as the Simplified Sellers Use Tax (SSUT) program. Half of the 8% online sales tax goes to the state, and the other half goes to cities and counties.
A Motion to Dismiss was filed by the Alabama Department of Revenue. The court has set a potential court date to hear the Motion To Dismiss on November 3, 2025 or October 30 or 31. The lawsuit is filed in Montgomery Alabama Circuit Court and assigned to Judge Tiffany McCord.
GRIMES – NAPIER FIELD – DALE COUNTY: If you are having water issues in Grimes – Napier Field – Canterbury Farms this evening, crews are working diligently to repair the issue and re-store water.
There was a water main rupture on Canterbury Road.
CLAYHATCHEE: 4:33 PM Recebtly the Clayhatchee Town Council voted to disband the Clayhatchee Police Department and place all law enforcement under Dale County Sheriff Mason Bynum and the men and women of Dale County Sheriff Department. And daily RSN has heard Dale County Sheriff Deouties on patrol in Clayhatchee. An abandoned vehicle was reported by one shift and later checked checked by another shift. So the deputies are serving and protecting all of the residents of Dale County but are close patrolling Clayhatchee providing the citizems with more detailed law enforcement coverage than before.
DEVELOPING TODAY, like now, Dale County Sheriff Deputy Gabe Hall was working Clayhatchee. Deputy Hall, a new graduate of the police academy, went to make a traffic stop. The vehicle Deputy Gabe Hall went to stop, not Deputy Gabe Hall, made a conscious decision not to stop but rather run. Deputy Gabe Hall announced he was in pursuit of the vehicle with two occupants.
The chase traveled from Clayhatchee into Bellwood. As soon as safe Dale County Sheriff Deputy Gabe Hall performed a “text book” pit manuever on the vehicle and spun them out of control and into a stop. The vehicle was occupied by two people. Deputy Hall was able to quickly exit his patrol vehicle and apprehend one suspect. The second suspect was able to run while Hall was busy wiht the first suspect.
Multiple Dale County Sheriff Deputies, Dale COunty Sheriff Mason Bynum, ALEA – Troopers, Geneva County Sheriff Deputies, WASP ( Wiregrass Aviation Support Program ) air unit is in the air and K-9 tracking dogs are searching for the second suspect.
As RSN said, THERE IS A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN and the men and women of Dale County Sheriff Department do not play. HATS OFF to Deputy Sheriff Gabe Hall on a text book law enforcement action, chase and pit manuever.
