A new VA clinic will give healthcare services to Wiregrass veterans.
The Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS) announced the 36,000-square-foot clinic will come to Health Center South in Dothan.
The clinic will expand healthcare access to veterans in a modern, state-of-the-art facility.
The clinic could also bring hundreds of jobs and bring more visitors.
The clinic is still being designed, but it’s expected to open in spring 2027.
DOTHAN: Dothan Police is a frequent partner for training with other agencies. Most especially in K-9 training.
This morning at Honeysuckle and West Main there were several law enforcement cars located at what was once Johnson Funeral Home, but is now abandoned.
Law Enforcement K-9 agencies from, Loxley Police, Baldwin County Sheriff Department, High Point North Carolina and more are conducting K-9 Training.
While Dothan has a training facility, a very modern, large training facility, they often use buildings that are abandoned. The officers conduct searches of the building for illegal substances and other items the K-9s would be deployed for.
THERE IS NOTHING HAPPENING as to a crime. Just training for future calls.
With the training center in Dothan, the police academy in Dothan, fire training center in Dothan, this is a training hub.
The Dothan City Commission today will vote on a measure raising compensation for the mayor and commissioners.
Assuming the resolution passes, the mayor would make $43,260 yearly.
The resolution states commissioners are to earn half the mayor’s salary.
The raises would go into effect the first Monday of October.
You can watch the commission meeting on the City of Dothan’s YouTube.
NOTE: JUVENILE RECORDS ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO POST. JUDGE LORI COLLIER INGRAM & JUDGE BUTCH BINFORD HANDLE ALL JUVENILE CASES:
HOUSTON COUNTY:
CV-Circuit-Civil:
38-CV-2025-000003.00 Jerry Marx Bond Vs Ronald Keith Bond (Other CV Case) with Judge
Christopher Richardson
38-CV-2025-900052.00 Guaranteed Bonding LLC Vs Jacqueline Culver (Contract/EJMNT/SEIZU)
$180000.00 with Judge John Steensland
38-CV-2025-900053.00 Timothy Craig Neach Vs Leigh Holland (Negligence Motor Vehicle) with
Judge Todd Derrick
38-CV-2025-900054.00 Russ Goodman Vs Damoris Kalice Lewis (FORF) with
Judge Butch Binford
DV-District-Civil:
38-DV-2025-900108.00 Midland Credit Management Inc Vs Anthony C Morgan (Account
Collection) $15199.64 with Judge Benjamin Lewis
38-DV-2025-900109.00 Prestige Financial Services Inc Vs Thomas Jacob Bradley LLC Vs Thomas
Jacob Bradley (Contract/EJMNT/SEIZU) with Judge Lori Collier Ingram
38-DV-2025-900110.00 Integrity Acye Realty LLC Vs Velesia Marie Hinch (Unlawful Detainer)
with Judge Benjamin Lewis
38-DV-2025-900111.00 Real Estate Services of Dothan Vs Arthur Pitts (Unlawful Detainer)
$3455.00 with Judge Lori Collier Ingram
38-SV-2025-900112.00Repunloc Finance LLC Vs Jerkins King (Contract/EJMNT/SEIZU) with
Judge Lori Collier Ingram
38-DV-2025-9001113.00 Jeff Key Vs Steve Recore (Unlawful Detainer) $1900.00 with Judge
Benjamin Lewis
38-DV-2025-900114.00 Southern Bone & Joint Vs Carmen Ocasio (Misc DV Case) $15201.22
with Judge Lori Collier Ingram
SM-Small Claims:
38-SM-2025-900445.00 Midland Credit Management Inc As Assignee of FBCR Vs Jeremy D
Danzey (Account Collection) $1732.81 with Judge Benjamin Lewis
38-SM-2025-900446.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Yvonne Mohan (Account Collection) $1040.46
with Judge Lori Collier Ingram
38-SM-2025-900447.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Robert Hill (Account Collection) $1041.84 with
Judge Lori Collier Ingram
38-SM-2025-900448.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Brittney Bennett (Account Collection) $1078.26
with Judge Benjamin Lewis
38-SM-2025-900449.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Amber Harris (Account Collection) $1221.86 with
Judge Benjamin Lewis
38-SM-2025-900450.00 Redstone Federal Credit Union Vs James Tyler Lipscomb AKA Tyler
Lipscomb (Misc SM Case) $3463.61 with Judge Lori Collier Ingram
38-SM-2025-900451.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Ineathia R Coleman (Account Collection) $734.87
with Judge Benjamin Lewis
38-SM-2025-900452.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Ineathia Coleman (Account Collection) $745.23
with Judge Lori Collier Ingram
38-SM-2025-900453.00 Dylan Suggs Vs Houston County Sheriff Office (Misc SM Case) $1000.00
with Judge Lori Collier Ingram
38-SM-2025-900454.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs David Mosley (Account Collection) $649.05 with
Judge Benjamin Lewis
38-SM-2025-900455.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs William Hallford (Account Collection) $654.36
with Judge Benjamin Lewis
38-SM-2025-900456.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Christopher Berry (Account Collection) $895.78
with Judge Benjamin Lewis
38-SM-2025-900457.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Michael Hester (Account Collection) $1655.86
with Judge Benjamin Lewis
38-SM-2025-900458.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Leah King (Account Collection) $1487.16 with
Judge Benjamin Lewis
38-SM-2025-900459.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Tommy Martin (Account Collection) $668.80 with
Judge Lori Collier Ingram
CC-Circuit-Criminal:
Judge Derrick had 1 case for Bond Forf-Felony. Judge Binford had 10 cases for Bond Forf-Felony.
DC-District-Criminal:
Judge Lewis had 18 cases ranging from Retail Theft 3rd Theft f Property 1st Possess Marijuana
2nd and Attempt to Elude.
TR-Traffic:
Judge Lewis had 11 cases for Drive W/Suspended X 2, Expired Tag X 2, Driving W/Revoke,
Speeding X 5 and Fail Stop Sign.
Henry County:
SM-Small Claims:
37-SM-2025-900050.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Reginald Melton (Account Collection) $557.77
with Judge Spencer Danzey
37-SM-2025-900051.00 LVNV Funding LLC Vs Lonnie Nowling (Account Collection) $2141.67
with Judge Spencer Danzey
CC-Circuit-Criminal:
Judge Danzey had 1 case for Expungement Petition
TR-Traffic:
Judge Danzey had 21 cases for Driving W/Revoke, Speeding, Improper Muffler, Expired Tag and
Reckless Driving.
Houston County residents get a chance to meet with county leaders tonight at 6 p.m. at the Rehobeth Community Center.
Representatives from the Sheriff’s Office, the Probate Judge’s Office, Road and Bridge and Revenue Commission will be there to talk about county matters and hear community concerns. Commissioner Ricky Herring is also expected to be there.
It’s at the Rehobeth Community Center at 221 Malvern Road from 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Picture it: this reporter was a 17-year-old ready to enjoy the National Peanut Festival with her high school friends. It was 2015, the November before I graduated.
While I was listening to the normal 2015 groups like Phoenix and Foster the People, I’d always enjoyed my dad’s music. I was raised with the good graces of guitar solos from the Allman Brothers, Derek & the Dominos, Jimi Hendrix, J.J. Cale and Taj Mahal. Dad made sure I understood the magic of what he called “symphonies of guitars.”
When I scanned my ticket on that fall night in 2015, ride armband equipped and ready to chow down on festival food, I spotted a sign that said the Marshall Tucker Band was playing at the amphitheater.
Reader, I knew what I had to do.
I told my friends I’d be ditching them. I found a young boy and asked him, “Hey, kid, you got an armband?” He shook his head no, and I handed mine over.
My memory possibly incorrectly tells me they had just begun the show, but I remember walking up and suddenly being hit with incredible music. It was the sound of sitting in the passenger seat of the truck. It sounded like CDs and talks with Dad. It sounded like seeing the “Blue Angel on a Stick” as we traveled down to see family in Perdido Key.
I paid $5 to sit in “VIP” seating and made my way down to the very front row on the far right. I asked an older man if anyone was sitting there, and he told me I was. So I sat.
At some point he asked me how old I was, and he was surprised when I told him. I said Dad and I listened to this music.
As they pounded out “Fire on the Mountain,” I called Dad and tearfully told him, “I’m watching the Marshall Tucker Band! Right now!” And I held up the phone so he could hear.
He just laughed and told me to enjoy the show.
They played “Desert Skies,” my favorite song, and I cried tears of joy getting to see them.
While lead singer Doug Gray was still alive, Toy and Tommy Caldwell had died by that point. I reveled in the fact I’d met Paul Hornsby, the producer, at the Wiregrass Blues Festival a year or so prior, where I had three bowls of seafood gumbo and lost my mind shaking the hand of the guy who worked so closely with my favorite bands.
I bought the cheapest shirt my just-above-minimum-wage retail salary would allow me and left in a musical daze. I don’t even think I got a corn dog or peanuts after.
So when a couple of months ago I saw the Marshall Tucker Band was coming back to the Circle City, I bought two tickets for me and Dad.
Now, at 27, I saw the Marshall Tucker Band for the second time in my life. It’s an honor to say I may possibly be one of only a handful of 27-year-olds who can say she’s seen them twice.
On Feb. 1, 2025, I put on that shirt I bought for $25 (now dappled with paint from art projects in years past) and hopped in the truck with Dad to go and watch one of our favorite bands.
Doug Gray is still alive — in fact, he’s the last surviving member. The rest of the five-piece band was made up of other Southern boys, the bassist playing Tommy Caldwell’s bass, a white Fender Precision with a Dimarzio split coil pickup.
It was obvious Doug was slowing down — age will affect even a pair of powerhouse lungs like his — and he sat out several songs, playing a tambourine or just watching the rest of the guys have fun.
It was a fun concert, and it was obvious the rest of the newer guys really cared about the band and its history.
Dad saw the Marshall Tucker Band for the first time right after their first album, before they really took off. He said he was in some sort of tavern, and only about a dozen people showed up; the band said something along the lines of, “Well, y’all are here, so we’re going to give you a show.”
He said it was incredible.
The next time Dad saw them, it was after “Can’t You See” became a hit song. There were plenty more concertgoers that time, and Dad fondly remembered a 45-minute jam session.
Seeing the Marshall Tucker Band again was cathartic for us both. We both sang along and enjoyed watching the folks a few nine-dollar Michelobs deep dance to the familiar tunes.
Sure, the band is getting ready to become one of those lost treasures of the musical world. But hearing the entire Civic Center sing along to “Can’t You See” fills you with an appreciation that’s hard to explain. It felt like being at Bryant-Denny when Alabama wins the football game, or at Jordan-Hare when Auburn wins. It felt like the family getting together for Thanksgiving and an impromptu jam session starting when the uncles break out the guitars and fiddles. It felt like driving down a back road with the windows down, all your friends belting out the same song from your beat-up 1999 car.
The Marshall Tucker Band’s music is already akin to serving your soul the same way your grandma’s home-cooked food did. Seeing them live again reminded me of that feeling — plus, they played “Desert Skies” again.
Can’t you see what that band’s been doing to me?