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DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in southeast Alabama are searching for a 14-year-old boy in the shooting deaths of two women who were found dead inside a home, police said Monday.

The youth, who The Associated Press isn't identifying because of his age, is wanted on two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Jasmine Danielle Bean, 20, and Ja’Lexius Lashon Wells, 21, police said.

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Shooting at peanut parade kills 1, wounds 1; teen arrested

November 14, 2022 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Gunshots erupted at the end of a south Alabama city's signature annual event, a parade capping off the National Peanut Festival, leaving one person dead, another wounded and sending terrified spectators ducking for cover.

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Jury selection begins in 1999 cold case killings of 2 teens

August 8, 2022 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Jury selection begins this week in the trial of a truck driver accused of killing two Alabama teenagers in 1999.

Coley McCraney, 48, is charged with capital murder in the slayings of J.B.

Construction Partners: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot

August 5, 2022 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) _ Construction Partners Inc. (ROAD) on Friday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $12.2 million.

On a per-share basis, the Dothan, Alabama-based company said it had net income of 23 cents.

Police: Alabama woman provided gun, drove youths to shooting

July 21, 2022 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman provided a gun to juveniles and then drove them to and from the scene of a shooting, police said Thursday. She was arrested on multiple charges.

Several youths were involved in a confrontation on July 15 before leaving the scene and returning in a vehicle driven by Shakita Leann Crittenton, 35, according to a statement from the Dothan Police Department.

Construction Partners: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

May 6, 2022 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) _ Construction Partners Inc. (ROAD) on Friday reported a loss of $9.4 million in its fiscal second quarter.

The Dothan, Alabama-based company said it had a loss of 18 cents per share.

State forensics lab planned for southeast Alabama

March 20, 2022 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences plans to open a new state laboratory in southeast Alabama that will conduct testing to help combat opioids and other drugs in the region.

Police: 5 charged with murder of south Alabama man

February 9, 2022 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Five people, including two juveniles, who allegedly conspired to rob a south Alabama man who was found dead of multiple gunshots last year were charged with murder, authorities said Wednesday.

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Alabama woman charged in death of unborn child after fight

January 31, 2022 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama was charged with reckless murder in the death of another woman's unborn child during an altercation, news outlets reported.

Iveonna Samone Turner, 20, was arrested by Dothan police on Friday night.

Alabama tourism group supports CEO after fraud plea in Iowa

January 28, 2022 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A taxpayer-funded tourism agency in Alabama is standing by its chief executive after he pleaded guilty to felony fraud in Iowa, where a music festival he oversaw lost millions.

Former leader of Cedar Rapids tourism agency admits fraud

January 27, 2022 GMT

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Two leaders of a Cedar Rapids tourism agency have admitted they defrauded a bank to acquire money to finance a three-day music and cultural event in 2018.

Aaron M. McCreight, 47, of Dothan, Alabama, was president and CEO of GO Cedar Rapids, which promoted the “Newbo Evolve” event in 2018.

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Alabama tourism agency keeping CEO after fraud indictment

January 5, 2022 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A regional tourism agency in Alabama said it will retain its chief executive officer after he was indicted on a federal fraud charge related to a music festival in Iowa that lost more than $2 million.

Parents charged after baby found facedown in bathtub

January 1, 2022 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — The parents of a 10-month-old girl were arrested after their daughter was found floating facedown in a bathtub, investigators said.

The parents left the girl in a bathtub in their Dothan home with the water running and the drain opened on Dec.

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National Peanut Festival wrapping up in southeast Alabama

November 13, 2021 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — One of the biggest events of the year in southeast Alabama is wrapping up this weekend in Dothan as the National Peanut Festival concludes its 10-day run.

Mayors of Alabama’s largest cities gathering in Montgomery

October 23, 2021 GMT

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The mayors of Alabama's 10 largest cities are holding two days of meetings in the capital to discuss legislative priorities and other issues.

A statement from the city of Montgomery says Mayor Steven Reed will play host for the gathering, which begins Sunday and continues Monday.

Alabama parents sentenced to prison in boy’s hot car death

October 22, 2021 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A mother and father from Alabama were both sentenced to prison after pleading guilty in the death of their 2-year-old son, who died in a hot car outside their home in 2019.

Robert Patrick King, 36, pleaded guilty to reckless manslaughter on Thursday and was sentenced to more than four years in prison, news outlets reported.

Alabama woman convicted in bombing of ex-boyfriend’s truck

October 22, 2021 GMT

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman was convicted on charges of conspiring with a friend to bomb the pickup truck of her estranged boyfriend, who survived the blast.

Court records show a federal judge in Montgomery convicted Ashley Nicole Haydt, 36, of Dothan on explosives and conspiracy charges on Thursday.

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Federal team to help with COVID-19 surge at Dothan hospital

August 25, 2021 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A federal team of health care workers is being sent to a southwest Alabama hospital seeing a surge in COVID-19 patients, the state health officer said Wednesday.

400 panties found in home of man facing voyeurism charges

July 24, 2021 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Police searching the home of a man suspected of attacking an Alabama woman in her home found more than 400 pairs of women's panties, authorities said.

Investigators also found dozens of photos of John Thomas Uda's co-workers taken without their permission from, the neck down, leading to 50 counts of voyeurism, Dothan police told news outlets.

Officer wounded, driver killed in Dothan shooting

April 20, 2021 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A confrontation that began with a routine traffic stop ended with a motorist dead and a police officer wounded with a gunshot in a leg, authorities said...

Alabama city seeks tourism bump with sporting events

January 17, 2021 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A southeast Alabama city is trying to increase tourism revenues with sporting events in hopes that more people will travel this year than in 2020, when the pandemic affected the economy.

Alabama hospital ends elective surgeries over virus spike

December 17, 2020 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A hospital serving southeastern Alabama said it would suspend elective surgeries beginning Thursday because of an increase in people needing treatment for COVID-19, which is overwhelming critical care facilities in the state...

Vaccinations begin in Alabama as COVID-19 cases soar

December 15, 2020 GMT

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Health care workers and a few others began receiving the first vaccinations against the new coronavirus in Alabama on Tuesday as cases of the illness caused by the virus soared...

Man cleared in wife’s slaying seeking $6M from Alabama town

June 9, 2020 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A man who was arrested in his wife’s slaying only to be cleared later is seeking $6 million from an Alabama city, news outlets reported...

Millionaire paid Jews to move to a small Alabama town

By JULIE ZAUZMERDecember 29, 2018 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — She was already going to be late to the church, where once again she would try to explain her religion, even though it seems like most people in her town never really get it...

Retired postmaster finds ‘magic’ on Appalachian Trail trip

By KAYLA RUTLEDGEJuly 15, 2018 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Most people know him as Michael Whittaker, a retired postmaster in Ozark, but on the Appalachian Trail fellow hikers simply call him "Swimmer...

Dance company performs ‘Moana’s Island Adventure’

By PEGGY USSERYMarch 12, 2017 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A summer trip to Disney World in Orlando last year so inspired Ashlie Wells that before the movie "Moana" even hit theaters, Wells started working on choreography for a dance production about the strong-willed daughter of a Polynesian chief trying to save her tribe's island...

#18. Dothan, Alabama

Staff WriterMarch 7, 2017 GMT

Average salary of trash collectors: $24,270Percent below national average: 39.91%Number of trash collectors: 140

Correction: Decade in Jail-No Trial story

February 22, 2017 GMT

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — In a story Feb. 18 about a man charged with murder who has waited nearly 10 years in jail without a trial, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of the victim's brother...