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Scottsboro Police Chief Ron Latimer came to the Scottsboro City Council on Monday in the hopes of getting a budget amendment for the police department’s training funds. The budget amendment request is for $16,000 due to the Alabama Police Officer Standards and Training (APOST) raising the cost of academy admission in June 2020. The cost was raised from $2,300 to $4,300. When an officer completed their training from the academy, APOST would normally reimburse the police department $1,300 ho...

On Friday morning, Ron Latimer stood before District Judge Don Word, placed his hand on the Bible that his wife, Lana, was holding, and swore to do his job. That’s something he’s been doing for the past 29 years, but to make it official, he was sworn in at Scottsboro City Hall as the city’s new police chief. Better late than never, right? Latimer had served as interim chief for almost 10 months prior to this week, when Mayor Jim McCamy made the recommendation and the city council...

Deputies from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office are involved in a couple of speed chases per week, as referenced in the front page story today. That will likely continue until state legislators toughen up current laws. Law enforcement officials talked this week about the dangers of police pursuits. Lt. Craig Holcomb, of the sheriff’s office, remembers a chase that began in South Pittsburg, Tennessee and ended in Rainsville, in DeKalb County, resulting in two deaths. Interim Scottsbo...

Lt. Craig Holcomb has spent 22 years at the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. Through the years, he has seen his fair share, and been part of, plenty of police chases. Holcomb remembers one in 2007 that started in South Pittsburg, Tennessee and went all the way to Rainsville, ending in a wreck that killed two South Pittsburg teenagers. “That was probably the worst one,” remembers Holcomb. Police chases are on the rise in the county, said Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen, of the sheriffâ...