Andalusia airport gives lift to Southeast Alabama aerospace hub
By Jerry Underwood
May 23, 2021
The South Alabama Regional Airport stays busy refueling military and civilian aircraft, and its café is a hit with aviators and locals. (contributed)
Covington County’s South Alabama Regional Airport has become a busy hub for aviators traveling throughout the Southeast.
The airport has a heliport that provides hot and cold refueling services to civilian and military helicopters, as well as an airfield café that brings in hundreds of pilots daily.
In addition, the airport’s industrial park is home to maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities, and there’s also a satellite campus of the Alabama Aviation College.
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The family of a Florida man who died in Covington County custody after a DUI arrest has settled a federal lawsuit against the jail and three guards.
Almus Taylor was arrested on a DUI charge Nov. 16, 2013, after running his truck off a Covington County road following a day spent at a nearby hunting camp, according to court records.
Taylor would die hours later en route to a local hospital. In the lawsuit filed in 2014, Taylor s family alleged the 38-year-old exhibited medical distress symptoms and even complained of abdomen pain through the night before he began vomiting blood and emergency medical services were called.
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Alabama State Troopers say an Andalusia woman was killed in a wreck this morning.
State troopers say 22-year-old Jenna Victoria Tuberville was driving on Covington County 17 when her car left the roadway, hit an embankment and overturned. Investigators say she and a passenger, who were not wearing seat belts, were thrown out of the car.
Tuberville was pronounced dead at the scene. Her passenger was taken to a hospital.
State troopers say the wreck happened about 8:35 a.m. about four miles south of Andalusia.
Troopers investigate crash that killed Andalusia woman, injured passenger (Source: WSFA 12 News file photo) By WSFA Staff | May 18, 2021 at 1:47 PM CDT - Updated May 18 at 1:47 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A south Alabama woman has died following a Tuesday morning car crash, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
Jenna Victoria Tuberville, 22, of Andalusia, was killed around 8:35 a.m. when the 1999 Mercury Grand Marquis she was driving left the roadway, struck an embankment and overturned.
Neither Tuberville nor an unnamed passenger were wearing a seatbelt, and both were ejected from the vehicle, ALEA said, The other victim was taken to an area hospital in unknown condition.