BARBOUR COUNTY: ALEA – Troopers, Barbour County Sheriff Deputies, and Barbour County Coroner Chip Chapman are on the scene or responding to a traffic fatality in Barbour County.
The accident was on Cottonhill Road in Barbour County.
The details are not known at this time. Anyone with information or scene pictures TEXT RICKEY 334-790-1729.
UPDATE: The woman is identified as 42-year-old Shannon L. Napper. Reports indicate she was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash and was ejected from the vehicle. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
DOTHAN: 6:19 PM. Dothan 911 dispatched Dothan Fire, Pilcher Ambulance and Dothan Police to a structure fire at 100 Doncaster Way in Dothan.
The reports were smoke and flames visible from a detached garage. The fire was relayed by a passerby.
The responding fire engine companies reported smoke was visible from a distance away from the scene. The first fire engine company arrived at 6:23 PM. The first arriving engine company reported they did not connect to a water supply, making an offensive attack with the water on the fire engine.
The second arriving fire engine companies arrived at 6:25 PM, being Engine 3 Whatley Drive, Truck 3. These fire engine companies began making aggressive attack on the opposite side.
6:26 PM. Dothan Fire Engine Companies reported water on fire.
6:27 PM. Fire knock down. Dothan Fireman checking for extensions. The fire engine companies at 6:32 PM had a water supply and were protecting the close structures.
Dothan Fire is getting the fire under control. Anyone with scene pictures or information TEXT RICKEY 334-790-1729.
6:35 PM Fire under control.
Doncaster Way runs off Highway 605 just off West Main Street at Brannon Stand. The subdivision backs up to the Highlands.
HOUSTON COUNTY: 1:50 PM. Houston County 911 dispatched a motor vehicle accident with injuries, Highway 231 South and State Line Road. At the time of dispatch, a two vehicle accident with roll over. Dispatched, Madrid Volunteer Fire Department, Rehobeth Fire – Rescue, Houston County Sheriff Deputies and ALEA – Troopers.
Within 3 minutes of dispatch the first Houston County Sheriff Deputy arrived on the scene at 1:53 PM. At 1:55 PM, a second Houston County Sheriff Deputy and ALEA – Trooper Spencer Adkinson were in the scene. At 2:00 PM Rehobeth Fire Chief Nick Floyd arrived on the scene at followed by two Rehobeth Ambulances.
The accident involved two SUV’s, one being a Ford Explorer and a Chevrolet SUV. Traveling north on Highway 231 from Florida into Alabama, just as you cross the hill into Alabama there is a traffic light. There have been a number of accidents, to include DEATHS at this intersection. This traffic light was the bright idea of Alabama Department of Transportation ( ALDOT ).
At 2:15 PM Rehobeth Rescue 8 left the scene transporting two patients to Southeast Health, non-emergency. At 2:27 PM Rehobeth Rescue 6 left the scene transporting one patient, non-emergency, to Southeast Health.
ALEA Trooper Spencer Adkinson is in charge of the accident investigation
HOUSTON COUNTY: At 11:10 AM Houston County 911 dispatched Rehobeth Fire – Rescue, Hodgesville Volunteer Fire and Houston County Sheriff Deputies to a medical emergency in the 5300 block of Hodgesville Road. The reports to Houston County 911 were a two-year-old child was not breathing.
From the time the call hit Houston County 911, Rehobeth Rescue was on the scene within eight minutes. They remained on the scene for only four minutes before they began emergency transport to a Dothan hospital with CPR in progress. The child was pronounced dead in the Emergency Room after a few minutes of medical staff doing all they could to save the child. Houston County Coroner Robert Byrd was notified of the death.
Houston County Sheriff Patrol Deputies called for Criminal Investigators to respond to the scene. The child was found in an above ground swimming pool prior to Houston County 911 being called. This afternoon multiple Houston County Criminal Investigators were on the scene. There is a language barrier the investigating deputies are working through.
This is a death under investigation. At this time there is no mention of foul play, but the investigation continues.
UPDATE: The child was identified as 2-year-old Diego Caple. He was found floating in the swimming pool unresponsive.
DOTHAN: Last week at the Dothan School Board Special Called Meeting, four of the seven ELECTED Dothan School Board Members voted against every faculty member of the Dothan City School system.
In a 4 to 3 vote, elected school board members Brett Strickland, Melanie Hill, Franklin Jones and Brenda Guilford voted for the qualifications for the next Dothan School Superintendent to have a doctorate and prior experience as a School Superintendent in order to apply. NO ONE in the current system has experience as a School Superintendent.
RSN does not know how this was list was voted on. The seven-member school board denied any participation in preparing these qualifications. These are not the qualifications in the last three advertisements according to School Board Chair Scott Childers. The current Superintendent, Dr. Dennis Coe, made it clear he had no part of it. Well the School Board is the governing authority and since no one knows where the qualifications list came from RSN is unclear how they voted on it. Might file a Violation of the Alabama Open Meetings Law and place each Board Member on the witness stand to get someone to tell the truth!!! RSN has done it before and will do it again.
Elected School Board Member Brett Strickland DOES NOT SEND his children to Dothan City Schools. Melanie Hill has no children.
In attempts to press Melanie Hill to express her reasoning she refused except to say she had phone calls for two weeks and was voting for these qualifications. Hill was very snarky and ran at the speed of light out the back door before she could be caught and asked one-on-one on camera.
If you want your opinion known then Tuesday March 18, 2025, call Melanie Hill at 334-596-9145. Her number is not listed on the school web site. So a lot of people do not know how to contact.
If you want your opinion known then Tuesday March 18, 2025, call Brett Strickland at 334-701-8947. His number is not listed on the school web site. So a lot of people do not know how to contact.
The elected members have a meeting tomorrow night, March 18, 2025, at the old Honeysuckle Middle School where Central Office is located.
The speakers have failed before when people have signed up to speak. RSN is keeping a close eye on those in case they do not work and will be calling the ones responsible out.
The school board members are up for election August 5. Please sign up and run because it is obvious Strickland, Hill, Jones and Guilford are against someone within the system or even in Dothan/Houston County from being the next Dothan School Superintendent.
You know, none of these were ever school board members until they were elected. School Board Member Melanie Hill is the field rep for U.S. Senator Katie Britt. Until Hill was appointed she had never been a field rep for a U.S. Senator. How does one gain experience as a School Superintendent. Well, the same way Strickland and Hill gained experience as Dothan School Board Members and Hill obtained experience as a field rep for a U.S. Senator.
DO NOT SLAP the men and women of the Dothan City Schools as you 4 have. You opening the qualifications as they have always been does not mean you can not select someone with a doctorate. But having a doctorate does not mean you have all of the answers. Sometimes to much means you lack common sense!!!
Ashford Fire and Cowarts Fire are responding to a fully involved structure fire in Weeks Trailer Park in Ashford.
Units say the neighboring trailer is also involved.
Units reported explosions being heard.
UPDATE: A neighbor got the homeowner out safely without injury. The fire is reported to have been started from the bottom of the refrigerator.
