The Wiregrass is under tornado watch and a wind advisory as severe weather rolls across the state.
Weather models indicated a tornado east of Troy, near Banks.
There are thousands of power outages reported across the state. Most outages are resolved, but there are still outages in Pike County.
This story will be updated with developments.
Wiregrass Electric Cooperative Prepared Ahead of
Severe Weather Threat HARTFORD, Alabama-As severe weather approaches our area, Wiregrass Electric Cooperative (WEC) wants members to know we are fully prepared to respond to potential outages and restore power as
quickly and safely as possible. AIL WEC linemen are on standby and ready to respond, and we’ve added two contract construction crews to support restoration efforts if needed. Should the storm’s severity require additional resources, WEC will coordinate with fellow Alabama electric cooperatives through our statewide mutual aid
network to bring in more assistance from unaffected areas. “We always prepare for the worst and hope for the best,” said Stevie Sauls, WEC Vice President of Member Services and Communication. “Our top priority is keeping members safe and restoring service
as quickly as possible after a storm.” Members are encouraged to stay weather-aware and report any outages they experience. WEC’s outage map is available online and updates in real time. For updates, outage reporting, and storm safety tips, visit our website at www.wiregrass.co.p. You can also view the outage map directly at
www.wiregrass.coop/outage-map.
Please continue to monitor trusted weather sources and stay safe.
### Wiregrass Electric Cooperative is an electric distribution system located in southeast Alabama with more than 3,500 miles of power lines providing reliable and affordable electricity and energy solutions to approximately 26,000 homes and businesses in Houston, Geneva, Covington, Dale, Henry and Coffee
counties. For more information, visit our website at www.wiregrass.coop.
ENTERPRISE: 5:56 PM. Enterprise 911 dispatched a firearm assault at 921 Rucker Blvd.
Enterprise Police, Enterprise Fire, Enterprise Rescue responded.
Preliminary information a subject was shot in the upper torso.
At this time no further information is known.
Enterprise Police is in charge of the investigation.
Anyone with more information or scene pictures TEXT RICKEY 334-790-1729.
UPDATED@ 10:40 PM
On March 15, 2025, at 6:26 PM, the Enterprise Police Department responded to the 900 block of Rucker Blvd., Liberty Gas Station parking lot, on a shooting call between numerous subjects. Patrol Officers arrived on scene and located a subject with a gunshot wound to the chest. The victim was transported by ambulance to the hospital. EPD Detectives are actively investigating this shooting. There is no active threat to the public and no additional information will be released at this time.
The Enterprise Police Department Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is investigating this shooting and asks that anyone with additional information to contact us at (334) 347-2222 or leave a tip at www.enterprisepd.com.
Dothan Fire is responding to a report of a four-vehicle wreck at West Main Street and North Park Avenue.
Most lanes are reported to be blocked and possible entrapment is reported. At least one person is complaining of pain. Airbag deployment was possibly reported.
UPDATE:
Entrapment was confirmed.
Authorities reported one yellow patient, one red, one green.
UPDATE:
Main Street beside CVS is blocked. Expect extreme delays in the area.
At least one critical injury was reported.
At least three patients were transported to the hospital.
BRUNDIDGE: 06:58 AM This morning numerous Federal Agents surrounded the residence of Brundidge Police Chief Samuel Green.
RSN, via TEXT RICKEY 334-790-1729, began receiving messages that numerous law enforcement officers had surrounded the police chief’s residence. We have learned that Federal auhorities have arrested the police chief, his wife and another relative, taking them into federal custody.
Apparently they have been transported to Montgomery Alabama, all in handcuffs. They will appear before a United States Magistrate Judge at the Federal Courthouse in Montgomery for an arraignment.
While RSN does not know all of the facts, this arrest is to do with COVID Money. Accusations are that several hundreds of thousands of federal dollars were alleged to have been taken during the COVID pandemic.
Green was unanimously appointed as Brundidge Police Department in 2021.
Green has a total of 24 years in law enforcement. He has been with the BPD for five years and has served with the Montgomery Police Department 10 years and the Pike County Sheriff’s Department, six years. He also served at a parole officer for the state three years.
UPDATE:
Green, 50; Sharon Jones Green, 53; and Schemillia Levera Fenn, 40 were indicated by a Montgomery grandy jury for allegedly participating in a scheme to defraud the U.S. government.
The indictment accuses the trio of illegally obtaining funds though the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, designed to help people with rent and utility bills during the pandemic.
Green faces 13 charges, including conspiracy to commit money laundering, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Sharon Green faces nine charges, and Fenn faces one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
All three are in custody and are expected to appear in federal court later today.
DOTHAN: On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 in a special called board meeting of the Dothan City School Board, in a split 4 to 3 vote, qualifications for the new Dothan School Superintendent passed.
Not one single member of the Dothan City School Board, the governing body of your children’s education, admitted to having the qualifications drafted. According to School Board Chairman Scott Childers, he did not and did not know who did. Current Dothan City School Superintendent Dr. Dennis Coe made it clear he did not draft the document. But that did not stop Dothan City School Board Members Brett Strickland, Melanie Hill, Franklin Jones, and Brenda Guilford from voting in favor of the qualifications for those wishing to apply for Dothan School Superintendent.
With these four votes, they urinated straight in the face of every teacher and principal in the Dothan City School System. Because two requirements, a PHD doctorate – which some have, but in addition they must have experience as a School Superintendent.
IT IS OBVIOUS these four board members never had any experience as a School Board Member until they were elected. Of the four, Brenda Guilford is the only one who has worked in a school system. She owns Brenda’s Preparatory School in Dothan. At the Preparatory School she manages a childcare facility that employs a “small staff” and serves about 100 children. Brett Strickland does not send his children to Dothan City Schools, Melanie Hill does not have any children in Dothan City Schools, and Franklin Jones does not appear that he knows where Dothan even is.
Dothan School Board Chairman Scott Childers, Amy Bonds and Aurie Jenkins all opposed the qualifications in the unknown document.
Get you some popcorn, and some nausea medicine, and you can watch AS THE STOMACH TURNS IN THE DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS. And if employed by the system, you can now see firsthand who supports you and who does not support each of you teachers and principals.