ELBA – COFFEE COUNTY: 2:54 PM A family outing is possibly now a family tragedy.
Search crews from Enterprise Rescue, ELBA Volunteer Fire, Elba Police, Coffee County Sheriff Department responded to a father and son missing. The location is in Elba on the road that goes to Troy where the water is. Reports are the son got into trouble while in the water and the father went to save his son. Both went under and neither has been seen since.
While earch crews hope and pray for the best in finding them safe, the worse is feared.
The emergency crews have mutual aid responded Opp Rescue which is a water search crew to assist.
PRAY for this family, that the father and son would be found safe. Also pray for the emergency crews involved.
HOUSTON COUNTY COMMISSION ADMINSTRATIVE MEETING ON JUNE 22, 2026
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HOUSTON COUNTY COMMISSION MEETING ON JUNE 22, 2026
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HOUSTON COUNTY: Regular Commission Meeeting held this past Monday, June 22, 2026. Item Number 3 was the issue of a new roof to be placed on the Sanitation Building at Houston County Farm Center. The roof is of the Sanitation Department, which is the building Houston County Commission just renovated which now needs a new roof.
HOUSTON COUNTY: The polls close at 7:00 PM. The race we are concerntrating on is District 2 Houston County Commissioner. All other races are statewide races. (more…)
HOUSTON COUNTY: 3:44 PM. Houston County 911 dispatched a firearm assault on Decatur Street in Madrid. The call was relayed to Houston County 911 by a third party.
As Deputies and EMS were rolling the call kept changing based on additional callers. A vehicle which was transporting the injured juvenile was reported to be in a truck. And the location kept changing. Some deputies rolled to Decatur Street, some rolled to Southeast Health and some rolled down Highway 231 looking for the truck.
Houston County 911 then got calls the vehicle and injured were n Inez Road and Highway 231.
Emergency units encountered the vehicle on Hodgesville Road behind McDonald’s. Emergency units escorted the injured to the hospital.
’The truck was impounded for processing. At this time unknown exact condition of the injured or exact circumstances.
Houston County Sheriff Donald Valenza, Houston County Sheriff Chief Deputy Jeff Carlisle, Major Bill Rafferty, Lt. Ray Arnold, Captain Tony Turner and Donnovan Arias and others are on the scene.
DOTHAN-HOUSTON COUNTY: Scheduled to appear in court on Friday was 24 year old Michael Tywuan Taylor for a preliminary hearing.
Michael Tywuan Taylor was arrested on Capital Murder in the course of a robbery on January 30, 2026. The murder took place when it is alleged that Taylor pointed a gun and took the life of 33 year old Wesley Blake Bowen. The two were driving/riding in the 2700 block of Ross Clark Circle when it is alleged that Taylor shot and killed Blake Bowen.
Following the crash into a pond at 2700 Ross Clark Circle it is alleged that Taylor ran from the wrecked vehicle in the pond, traveling east into the woods. Dothan Police apprehend Taylor on Fortner Street at Stonewood when he was spotted.
No Dothan-Houston County attorney’s would take the criminal defense of Michael Tywaun Taylor. The courts appointed Geneva Attorney Lee Knowles and Covington County Attorney David Baker to represent Taylor.
The charge is a death penalty against Michael Tywuan. District Court is a court of no record therefore no courtreporter is assigned to Judge Lewis courtroom. One was not pre-scheduled and in death penalty cases where the defendant can be put to death a court reporter is needed. Therefore the preliminary hearing was re-scheduled to July 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM.
The victim, Wesley Blake Bowen was a friend of RSN. He was a very successful young man who worked hard to achieve things in life. He was married and a very beautiful wife with two wonderful children. He comes from great mother and father. Blake graduated from Rehobeth High School. He was an extremely successful businessman. He would have given Taylor the shirt off his back and that day was simply giving Taylor a ride.
I was truly honored, as many others were, to call Blake a friend.
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