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Couple facing multiple charges Dadeville Police seize drugs, children placed with relatives By MITCH SNEED Editor
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Fog engulfs the Tallapoosa River Bridge along Highway 280 early Tuesday morning as the warming temperatures and the cooler water below created an interesting image for approaching motorists.
Area could be target of severe weather Wednesday said. With light rain off and on in the interim, the rain should set in late this The first organized morning, bringing with it severe system since midthe chance for tornadoes, April is threatening the damaging winds and small area today, according to (quarter-sized) hail later Holly Allen, a meteorolotoday. gist with the Birmingham “You could get fairly office of the National wet even from the interWeather Service. mittent rainfall (prior “We were talking about to the storms’ arrival),” when we last had a severe Allen said. “Tthroughout weather system come the threat, there will be through this morning,” said a greater threat for some Allen. “Looks like it was stronger storms to the in mid-April. We’ve had a northwest of you, but we quiet fall severe weather are advising everyone to season.” stay tuned because there is April 19 saw confirmed a chance the threat levels tornadoes in Bullock, may change as the forecast Cherokee and Russell becomes clearer.” counties. There were no Currently, Alexander injuries or fatalities. The City appears to be in the last Alabama tornadolimited threat area for at related death happened in least 15 hours from 3 p.m. an EF-3 tormado in Oak Wednesday until 6 p.m. on Grove on Jan. 23, 2012. Thursday. But that could all change Allen said the NWS during this afternoon is hopeful that the media and into Thursday, Allen See STORMS • Page 5
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Headlights from approaching cars illuminate the rain-soaked pavement along Cherokee Road late Tuesday afternoon. Meteorologists say that more rain and possibly storms are on the way to the area today.
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For the second time this month, Camp Hill Mayor m Danny Evans has had to D cancel a council meeting. ca “Once again I apologize we cannot have a meetg ing,” Evans said Monday in evening. “We do not have a ev quorum to have a meeting.” qu With the unexpected death of Council member d Leon Hatcher the day before L Thanksgiving, it leaves only T four fo members of the council. ci Three have to attend any
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A neighbor’s call to report a verbal altercation led to the arrest of two people by the Dadeville Police Department on a myriad of charges including drug possession and child endangerment. According Dadeville Police Chief David Barbour, officers responded to a call on Sunday at 10:45 a.m. on Reeder Road Moss of a verbal altercation between a man and a woman at the residence. Once at the scene, investigators interviewed the two adults at the residence and as a result of information gathered, both Dwight Whetstone Demond Moss, 41 of Dadeville and Jessica Nicole Whetstone, 29, were taken into custody. During a search of the residence several grams of marijuana and cocaine were recovered from the home and vehicle at that location. There were two children, ages 2 and 4, found in the home. Barbour said that they were turned over to DHR for placement in a relative’s home. Moss was charged with third-degree domestic violence, one count of chemical endangerment of a child, two counts of first-degree possession of marijuana and one count of possession See ARRESTS • Page 5
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Camp Hill Mayor Danny Evans, left, and Council members Ezell Smith and Will York look over paperwork while waiting to see if another council member would show up at Monday’s council meeting.
meeting to make a quorum. Monday night, the standing date for the second regular meeting of the month for the council, the same two council members were absent again, Anthony Pogue and Sylvia Spratlin as
Mayor Evans and the other two council members Ezelle Smith and Will York waited through the council policy requiring 15 minutes after the called time before canceling the meeting. See QUORUM • Page 9
A new survey by the makers of Milk Bone dog biscuits shows that residents in only 15 other states spend more money on their dogs at Christmas than do Alabamians. Big Heart Pet Brands – the makers of Milk-Bone, Milo’s Kitchen, PupPeroni, and Canine Carry Outs -- asked 3,000 Americans about their dog-related holiday habits, including whether their dog is involved in gift-giving, stockingstuffing, Christmas sweater-wearing, and other holiday traditions. The fact that Alabamians spend as much as they do on their dogs (an See PETS • Page 5
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