The most profitable hospital in the country, 235-bed Flowers Medical Center in Dothan, Ala.

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The shooting and abduction took place in Midland City, a small town near Dothan, Ala.

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The VRI equipment, sold by vendor Advanced Ag Systems out of Dothan, Ala.

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McLendon seemed to be "a cool guy, " former high school classmate Cecil Knowles told the Dothan Eagle newspaper.

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Coffee County District Attorney Gary McAliley told the newspaper in nearby Dothan that McLendon likely planned the rampage for a while.

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His wife told the local newspaper, the Dothan Eagle, that her husband would do anything for his young passengers, like many others.

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Next week's ITF Women's Circuit event in Dothan, Alabama, is on the tour below the WTA circuit and is traditionally where players hoping to break through learn their trade.

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It has been airing ads in small towns in safe Republican states, such as Dothan, Alabama and Parkersburg, West Virginia, merely to reach little pockets of voters in neighbouring swing states.

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