Barbour Countians are well acquainted with muggy, intense heat and humidity. It is normal for summer living in the south, but rarely do the temperatures soar to the triple digits. Add, a heat index as high as 112 degrees and it is uncommon and unbearable.
Residents inside a home on East Louisville Street (Peanut Butter Hill) were shaken when a vehicle driven by Marshun Rodrequiez McClendon of Clayton rammed into the home around 11:00 Thursday night. Lucy Jones said she was getting ready to go to bed when she heard a loud noise only to find out that a car had crashed into her house.
Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the conviction of former Barbour County Sheriff Leroy Upshaw on a felony ethics charge Tuesday. Upshaw, 52, of Eufaula appeared in Barbour County Circuit Court in 2021 and pled guilty to allegations charging him with using his office or official position for personal gain, a class B felony.
Parole was denied for Timothy Roderique Gooden when he appeared before the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles on June 7. Gooden is being held in the Bullock Correctional Facility in Union Springs on a conviction of manslaughter in Barbour County.
Brad Sasser, a native of Louisville, has announced the release of his new book entitled Highways and Hedges: New Life Lessons From A Trail Chaplain. This is the second book he has written. His first, released in the Spring of 2022, The Road Less Traveled: 23 Life Lessons From the Trail sold more than 1,000 copies.
An inmate incarcerated at Ventress Correctional Facility in Clayton was found unresponsive and later pronounced deceased on June 21. According to information released by the Alabama Department of Corrections, Jason Wayne Chambers was discovered unresponsive in his dorm about 11:45 p.m.
A warrant was obtained Monday for a Mt. Andrew man for murder after he admittedly fired a fatal shot that killed Derrick Kentrell Walker, also of the Mt. Andrew Community, last week. Woodson Jarrod Thorn, Jr., 22, a resident of Miller Road, was arrested Tuesday.
Barbour County Commissioners accepted a bid from Higgins Electric of Dothan in the amount of $9,710 to replace one damaged light post and eight lights in the parking lot of the Eufaula courthouse during the regularly scheduled monthly meeting held last Tuesday, June 13. According to commissioners the damaged light post was the result of a vehicle accident in February of this year.
Clio native Vernon Johnson has been elected Secretary-Treasurer by the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Hospital Association. Johnson has an associate’s degree in Respiratory Therapy, an undergraduate in Business, and a master of science in Health Administration.