State law to expand dental services in rural areas still not enacted after three years

FLORENCE – The rape and sodomy case against a Florence attorney begins today, officials said.

Authorities with Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange’s office said jury selection in the trial of Don Tipper will get underway at 10 a.m.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant Attorneys General Bill Lisenby and Stephanie Billingslea of the Attorney General’s Criminal Trials Division. It was investigated by the Florence Police Department and special agents of the Attorney General’s Investigations Division.

Madison County Circuit Judge Dennis O’Dell has been assigned to hear the case, which is being held in the fifth floor courtroom of the Lauderdale County Courthouse.

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