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One arrested, one at large after high-speed chase By MITCH SNEED Editor
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A Thursday evening high-speed chase ended with the suspect’s vehicle and a police vehicle damaged when a crash ended the pursuit that covered more than 15 miles. According to Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett, a deputy observed a driver of a vehicle known to have no license and an
attempt was made to stop the vehicle. The driver sped up and ignored the lights and siren. A chase ensued, but the driver eventually stopped, jumped out of the vehicle and fled on foot. The passenger in the vehicle then slid behind the wheel and continued the chase See CHASE • Page 3
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A crash Thursday near the intersection of Highway 22 and Lashley Road ended a high-speed chase that had covered more than 15 miles.
New Site man arrested on sex assault charges
Author Harper Lee dead at 89
DelCarlos Holley facing multiple charges after Shelby County arrest
Pulitzer Prize winner spent time in Alex City
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Harper Lee, the mysterious Alabama-born author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “To Kill A Mockingbird,” died in her sleep Friday morning in her hometown of Monroeville, according to a family statement. Lee was 89. Lee “This is a sad day for our family,” said Lee family spokesperson Hank Conner. “America and the world knew Harper Lee as one of the last century’s most beloved authors. We knew her as Nelle Harper Lee, a loving member of our family, a devoted friend to the many good people who touched her life, and a generous soul in our community and our state. We will miss her dearly.” Lee’s death comes less See LEE • Page 10
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Tallapoosa County EMA director Jason Moran sorts weather alert radios at the New Site town hall Thursday night before they were handed to six volunteer fire departments to distribute to citizens.
WEATHER READY Resident to get weather alert radios to help them prepare By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
Residents of northern Tallapoosa County will be receiving 100 weather radios from volunteer fire departments thanks to a grant from the Tallapoosa County Commission. “We were able to purchase 100 weather radios,” Tallapoosa County EMA director Jason Moran said. “The money came from the county commission.” The radios were given to the volunteer fire departments of Jackson’s Gap, Daviston, Hackneyville, Buttston, New Site and Eagle Creek to hand out to citizens, but
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there is a catch. “These weather radios can alert 100 homes,” Moran said. “But we want people to alert others. So we are asking that if they get one of these radios, to call two others without radios when it is alerted. That means 300 people will be notified in the event of severe weather.” With several of the county’s weather sirens in need of repair, the weather radios not only are cheaper but will also get the word out about severe weather more effectively.
New Site Police Department officials arrested a suspect accused of multiple sex charges Thursday. New Site Public Safety Director John McKelvey said that after seeking 45-yearold DelCarlos Holley for several days, Holley was taken into custody late Thursday in Wilsonville with the help of deputies from the Shelby County Holley Sheriff’s Department. “Holley was identified as a suspect in a number of sexual assaults that began in 2015 and continued up until recently,” McKelvey said. “We had a warrant and had been on watch at several locations for him and received information that he may be in Shelby County. After checking that location he was taken into custody with the help of deputies there.” McKelvey said Holley is facing four counts of attempted rape, four counts of first-degree sexual abuse and enticing a child for immoral purposes. Holley was booked into the Tallapoosa County Jail Thursday evening and remained in custody late Friday pending setting of bond in the case. Holley is no stranger to legal trouble. See ARREST • Page 10
The event was called Reality Check and it turned out to be just that. Benjamin Russell freshmen dashed from booth to booth in the gymnasium frantically, even though the troubles they were trying to cope with were all make believe. “For this hands-on simulation, all the young people are assumed to be 25 years old, independent, on their own and the primary provider for themselves and their family,” said Isaac B. Chappell, a regional Alabama Cooperative Extension System agent from
Anniston. “They’re all given an education level – either they’re a dropout, attended technical or junior college or attended college.” In addition, Chappell said, each student is given a vocation based on his or her education level and assigned family circumstances. The students are either single with children, single with no children, married with a working spouse or married with a non-working spouse. “We give each of the students a monthly income based on their job and a credit card,” Chappell said. “They have to
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Students were forced to look at managing a budget based on jobs that their education would secure while paying all the expenses associated with living on their own.
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