Tag: DOTHAN

Houston County tourism is seeing growth, according to Visit Dothan. Executive director Hannah Shiver told the Houston County Commission that hotel revenue totaled approximately $52.2 million in 2025, representing a 1% growth from the year prior.

The Butcher’s Daughter is expanding to Dothan after seeing much success in Enterprise.

Deputy chief of staff for policy and United States homeland security advisor Stephen Miller spoke to members of the media on Monday about the continued deployment of federal authorities and National Guard units to cities across the country.

Dobbs Bar-B-Que in Dothan is closing its doors after serving locals and travelers for decades.

Dothan voters participating in the August 5 municipal elections re-elected Mayor Mark Saliba for a third term.

Houston County Circuit Judge John Steensland III denied a temporary restraining order requested by Dothan pastor Kenneth Glasgow, the half-brother of Al Sharpton, on Monday to delay municipal elections in Dothan.

While many municipalities in Alabama will head to the polls on August 26, the City of Dothan will hold its municipal elections on August 5.

A now former associate pastor at the First Baptist Church of Dothan was arrested over the weekend after police say he left a young child alone in the car while he went to drink at a bar.

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, John P. Heekin, announced on Friday multiple guilty pleas related to a sex trafficking operation that spanned the miles from Dothan to the Florida panhandle.

Former Democratic candidate for governor Christopher Countryman, 46, and his partner, Bruce Ryan Countryman, 32, were arrested on Monday and charged with methamphetamine possession near Cottonwood Road in Dothan.

In his speech to the Houston County GOP on Monday, Alabama Republican Party chairman John Wahl emphasized taking political action, removing sexually explicit material from libraries and teaching children the meaning of freedom. 

Dothan police arrested Audarian Kywon Richards on Friday on possession of child porn charges.

A Dothan man was arrested again on Monday just two months after former President Joe Biden commuted his sentence.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) dropped a discrimination lawsuit against the ownership of a Home2 Suites by Hilton Hotel in Dothan on Thursday.

An unusual Super Bowl treat was prepared on ABC's Good Morning America by Dothan's Kelsey Barnard Clark -- ‘Fried shrimp po-boy nachos.’

A Montgomery woman is thankful after seeing a sexual predator who victimized her was placed behind bars 25 years later.

Members of the Dothan City Commission approved a $110,000 settlement on Tuesday with Stephanie Wingfield, a city employee who filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in 2023.

Members of the Dothan City Commission approved the appointment of assistant City Manager Randall Morris to the role of interim city manager effective May 1.

Art Solomon has died at his home in Dothan. He chronicled the life of The Wiregrass through photography over 50 years.

Members of the Alabama Public Charter School Commission revoked the charter of the Barnabas School for Leadership in Dothan on Monday.

Southern Roots Nut Co. plans to open a pecan processing facility in Dothan, where the New Mexico-based company will create 120 jobs, according to Gov. Kay Ivey.

The City of Dothan celebrated the opening of a Safe Haven Baby Box on Friday.

Some high school athletes in Alabama will potentially earn more than their coaches if legislation is passed to allow high schoolers to profit off their name, image, and likeness, according to Dothan City Schools Superintendent Dennis Coe.

Houston County Circuit Judge Henry "Butch" Binford reversed the termination of former city of Dothan employee Stephanie Wingfield on Thursday.

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) announced Friday that his campaign released its initial two ads in his bid for Alabama's first congressional district.

Concerned residents gathered on Wednesday to petition the Dothan Houston County Library Board to remove books from the library that many residents consider obscene or pornographic.

The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals reversed a Houston County Circuit Judge’s ruling to uphold the firing of Stephanie Wingfield by the city of Dothan on Friday over her alleged role in a scheme to falsify paperwork in a federal meals program administered by the city of Dothan during the pandemic.