3:57 PM Hunt’s Booking Holiday Parties
3:28 PM Structure Fire Dispatched Reeves Street – Vehicle Fire Is What It Was
DOTHAN: 3:17 PM Dothan 911 dispatched a structure fire at American Wall Zone Supply at 1704 Reeves Street.
On arrival of Dothan Fire Engine Company 5 ( Eastside ) it was determined it was a vehicle fire that was fully involved. Heavy black smoke could be seen from a distance away. It was not a structure fire.
Dothan Fire Engine Company had to enter from Cordova Street to get to the fire.
1:03 PM Thanksgiving Lunch Bunch
12:58 PM Fried Turkeys
12:27 PM Marianna Inmate Admits to Smuggling Drugs into Tallahassee Federal Jail
TALLAHASSEE, — A federal inmate from Marianna has acknowledged his role in bringing illegal substances into the Federal Detention Center in Tallahassee.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida, 50-year-old Bertram Williams entered a guilty plea in connection to an April incident where staff uncovered contraband hidden in his clothing after a visit.
Investigators say that on April 13, correctional officers searched Williams following a visitation period. During the search, officers inspected his left boot and came across latex glove fingertips that had been cut and modified to hold two small plastic containers.
Inside one container, staff located marijuana. The second held a small piece of paper that was soaked in a drug that later tested positive for synthetic marijuana, officials said.
Both substances were confirmed through testing by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Williams, who remains in custody at FDC Tallahassee, now faces a maximum sentence of five years behind bars and an additional year of supervised release.
12:06 PM Joint Press Conference – Houston and Dale County – On Simplified Seller’s Use Tax Lawsuit
HOUSTON COUNTY: This morning following the Houston County Commission Meeting members of the Houston County Commission, Houston County Commission Chairman Brandon Shoupe, Houston County Sheriff Donald Valenza, Dale County Commission Chairman Steve McKinnon and Dale County Sheriff Mason Bynum held a press conference. The purpose of the press conference was their announcement that Houston and Dale County are joing as defendants in the SSUT ( Simplified Seller’s Use Tax ) case. This is a court case filed by City of Tuscaloosa, School District if the City of Tuscaloosa and City of Mountian Brook verses he Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Revenue.
This case involves the “use tax” and not a “sales tax” involving internet purchases. The sales tax system of Alabama is out of date and complicated as flying a jet plane. That is one of the reasons the internet purchase tax is referred to as a “use” tax and not a “sales” tax.
The Houston County Commission voted to join the lawsuit in today’s meeting as a defendant.
According to Chairman Shoupe he said that Tuscaloosa and the “Big 10 Cities”, of which the City of Dothan is one of the “Big 10 Cities”, want is geo tagging addresses. Shoupe used the example that he lives 1/2 miles outside of the City of Dothan and the geo tagging would not be possible. Shoupe also said he does not feel the government should know how much his family spends with Amazon or other online vendors.
Shoupe admitted that county residents, where the sales tax is 5% and not 8%, but on the SSUT they pay 8%, is the best option then what the City of Tuscaloosa is wanting in the lawsuit.
Very confusing.
All motions to intervene are to be filed within 30 days of the Montgomery Circuit Court order issued November 10, 2025. The court will hear all pending motions on January 21, 2026 in Montgomery County Circuit Court.