Today was a day of celebration for those in Hayneville who took part in a rally in honor of Juneteenth as well as supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. Decorated cars and motorcycles, paraded the streets of Hayneville starting on Highway 97. Roughly 60 vehicles participated in the first annual event. The theme was “equal opportunity as well as justice…
Hundreds of people turned out in Hayneville on Saturday morning to remember the life of the late Lowndes County Sheriff “Big John” Williams. Williams was shot and killed at a gas station last November. Motorcycle riders rode 130 miles around the county to commemorate the area that Williams once patrolled. It is their hope that they can start a college…
The teenage suspect in the shooting death of Lowndes County Sheriff “Big John” Williams was in court in Hayneville this morning for his preliminary hearing, and will now face a grand jury a judge says. This was the second time 18-year-old William Johnson was marched into the Lowndes county courtroom, he’s charged with capital murder in the sheriff’s death last…
