Author: Don Fletcher

Former T.R. Miller assistant to head program Harris By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Vincent Harris, an assistant football coach at T.R. Miller High the past two years, was introduced as the new head football coach and athletic director at Escambia County High School during the Monday, June 6, special meeting of the Escambia County Board of Education. Harris also coached four years at Pleasant Grove High, including the first…

Brown By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man was arrested after he was spotted trying to steal an air conditioning unit from a city residence.Sgt. Darrell McMann, public information officer for Atmore Police Department, reported that dispatchers received a call around 1:40 a.m., June 1, notifying police of the theft attempt, at a residence on McGlasker Street.The caller was able to furnish a description of the suspect, and an…

Blount By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer After nearly two years on the run, 21-year-old Tyrone Blount Jr. is finally behind bars.Blount is one of two gunmen suspected of pulling up in a van to a location near the intersection of Robinson Street and Maxwell Street around 2:45 p.m. on September 11, 2020. The duo, both of whom were 19 years old when the crime was committed, exited the vehicle and…

Gable By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) officials confirmed late last week that reports of 31-year-old Fountain Correctional Facility inmate Corey Daniel Gable’s escape from the facility were issued after Fountain officials discovered a clerical error that caused them to release the wrong inmate.“On May 31, 2022, Corey Daniel Gable, a 31-year-old inmate serving a 20-year-sentence for (first-degree) assault out of Mobile County at Fountain Correctional…