At 12:54 pm Headland Communications Center dispatched Headland Fire and Rescue, Newville Fire, and Kinsey Fire for a reported structure fire in the lunchroom at Headland High School. All staff and students were evacuated. Upon arrival of Headland Fire It was reported no active fire. The dishwasher heating element had washed its last dish and burnt out, causing the lunchroom to fill with smoke. All students and staff are unharmed. 
At 9:33 am this morning Dothan Communications dispatched Dothan police, Fire, and EMS to the intersection of East Main Street and Plant Street for a reported motor vehicle collision with 2 vehicles. Minor to moderate damage reported. Before emergency personnel arrived on scene there was a secondary collision involving a pickup truck and small passenger car with minor damage. Everyone involved was checked by EMS and did not need medical transport. 
At 4:02 pm Dothan Communications dispatched Dothan Police,Fire, and EMS to the 700 block of West Selma Street for a motor vehicle collision with minor injuries. Upon arrival no occupants needed treatment. One lane of west Selma is blocked at this time crews are working to clear the wecked vehicle and reopen the street.
REHOBETH – HOUSTON COUNTY: In 2013 a white male, Jimmy Lee Dykes, entered a Dale County School bus at a bus stop. Upon entering the school bus the white male subject shot and killed Charles ” Chuck ” Polland, the school bus driver and took a 5 year old child, Ethan as hostage.
Other children were able to exit the bus and run. The school bus driver, Charles Polland gave his life protecting the children and was dead on the scene. And Jimmy Lee Dykes carried the 5 year old child into an underground bunker where he was held hostage for six days. Then Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson remained on the scene for the entire six days, with the help and assitance of combined agencies, to include the specialized forces of the FBI. After six days the special forces were able to swiftly enter the underground bunker and rescue the 5 year child, uninjured, and in self defense terminate Jimmy Lee Dykes.
From the inciden,t the Alabama Legislature enacted a law in 2013 known as the Charles ” Chuck” Polland, Jr. Act. That makes it a criminal offense forsomeone entering a public school bus while the door is open to load or unload students without a lawful purpose.
On Monday, August 25, 2025, a Houston County School bus assigned to Rehobeth, was on the routine route. Reports are a car followed the bus while making several stops. After about the 3rd stop a male subject entered the school bus inquiring who had messed with his children. The bus driver asked him to exit the bus, which he did after a few brief seconds. There are reports about 15 students were on the bus. While the bus driver was speaking with the man some on the bus called 911 and Houston County Sheriff Deputies responded. No one was injured. The incident was on Harden Road in Houston County.
The incident is under investigation and most likely the man will be arrested and placed in the Houston County Jail.
Anyone having issues are to report them to the school or central office. But at no time are they to enter the bus or approach the bus driver. There will be zero tolerance for such acts.
The incident is under investigation by the Houston County School Superintendent and the Houston County Sheriff Department.
(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Charles “Chuck” Poland, Jr., Act.
(b) A person commits the crime of trespass on a school bus in the first degree if he or she is found guilty of doing any of the following:
(1) Intentionally demolishing, destroying, defacing, injuring, burning, or damaging any public school bus.
(2) Entering a public school bus while the door is open to load or unload students without a lawful purpose, while at a railroad grade crossing, or after being forbidden from doing so by the authorized school bus driver in charge of the bus, or upon demand of a principal of a school to which the bus is assigned or other duly authorized school system official.
(3) As an occupant of a public school bus, refusing to leave the bus on demand of the authorized school bus driver in charge of the bus, or upon demand of a principal of a school to which the bus is assigned or other duly authorized school system official.
(4) Intentionally stopping, impeding, delaying, or detaining any public school bus being operated for public school purposes with the intent to commit a crime therein.
(c) The crime of trespass on a school bus in the first degree is a Class A misdemeanor.
(d) Subdivisions (2), (3), and (4) of subsection (b) do not apply to a child who is less than 12 years of age or to authorized school personnel who are boarding the school bus as a part of their job assignment.
At 11:22 am Dothan communications dispatched Dothan Police, Fire, and Pilchers Ambulance to the 5001 block of Montgomery hwy McDonald’s for a 5 vehicle motor vehicle collision with injuries. Upon arrival 1 person needed medical attention. One vehicle showed moderate damage and the others were minor damage.
At 8:10am this morning Dothan Fire, and Police, and Napier Field Fireand Police were dispatched to a motor vehicle collision with critical injuries and one vehicle on its side. One patient was transported non life treating injuries. The intersection of Napier Field Rd and Lee st. Is closed until the crash can be cleaned up. 
