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Man caught enjoying a cold beer while picking child up from school

Submitted by JoBeth Davis, Community Web Producer
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013, 3:04pm
Man caught enjoying a cold beer while picking child up from school

RED LEVEL, AL (WSFA) - A Red Level man found himself in jail after he tried to pick his child up from school on Monday. The catch? A School Resource Officer noticed the man smelled like alcohol and the man admitted to drinking a beer on the way over.

According to the Covington County Sheriff's Office, around 1:15 p.m. Monday, School Resource Officer Michael Vigor observed a man in the Red Level School office trying to check out a student. The man smelled strongly of alcohol.

The officer asked the man, later identified as 60-year-old Calvin Lamar Adams, if he had been drinking. Adams replied, "Yes sir, I just drank a beer."

Deputy Vigor then asked Adams if he drove to the school that day. Adams replied, "Yes sir."

Authorities say the SRO conducted a field sobriety test on Adams - he blew a .04 on the breathalyzer. Deputy Vigor also found an opened, cold beer inside Adams' vehicle which was parked in front of the school. 

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13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

Submitted by Donna Wallace-King, Community Web Producer
Monday, October 15th, 2012, 10:13am
13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

Visitors can experience Alabama’s haunted history in October with ghost trails, story-telling festivals and ghost walks.

A variety of events and trails pay homage to the state’s ghostly history including a rare moonlit tour of the famous ghost town Old Cahawba where paranormal investigators will showcase their ghost hunting equipment. In Montgomery a mortician will take you on a tour of Oakwood Cemetery in a hearse. The Black Belt Ghost Trail showcases dozens of haunted sites that include homes, restaurants, cemeteries and Civil War sites.

The Alabama Tourism Department offers the following list of 13 ghostly events taking place this month across the state.
 


Athens
7th Annual “Historic Haunts Walk” — Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
 

This annual Historic Haunts Walk, held each Tuesday night in October, begins at the Athens Visitors Center and includes tales of paranormal activity at 13 local structures.

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13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

Submitted by Donna Wallace-King, Community Web Producer
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012, 11:13am
13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

Visitors can experience Alabama’s haunted history in October with ghost trails, story-telling festivals and ghost walks.

A variety of events and trails pay homage to the state’s ghostly history including a rare moonlit tour of the famous ghost town Old Cahawba where paranormal investigators will showcase their ghost hunting equipment. In Montgomery a mortician will take you on a tour of Oakwood Cemetery in a hearse. The Black Belt Ghost Trail showcases dozens of haunted sites that include homes, restaurants, cemeteries and Civil War sites.

The Alabama Tourism Department offers the following list of 13 ghostly events taking place this month across the state.
 


Athens
7th Annual “Historic Haunts Walk” — Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
 

This annual Historic Haunts Walk, held each Tuesday night in October, begins at the Athens Visitors Center and includes tales of paranormal activity at 13 local structures.

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Man’s “minor” fib lands him in cold water

Submitted by JoBeth Davis, Community Web Producer
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012, 12:47pm
Man’s “minor” fib lands him in cold water

OPP, AL (WSFA) - A Georgiana man is in custody in Covington County after a bizarre turn of events that started with an underage drinking arrest and ended with a completely different identity.

Opp Police officers arrested 19-year-old Lajon Pate of Georgiana on Sunday, June 24 for an underage drinking charge and placed him in the Opp City Jail. Pate was unable to post bail for this arrest and was held over at the jail. Two days later Pate requested to see a doctor relating to a medical issue. Authorities transported him to the Opp Mizell Memorial Hospital Emergency Room.

Pate was seen by a doctor and was given prescriptions for an undisclosed medical issue. The officer who had accompanied Pate to the ER stepped out of the room briefly to speak with the doctor about the prescribed medication - that's when Pate made his next move.

Pate fled the hospital and was later apprehended, still wearing handcuffs, after he was found lying in a creek.

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