Auditions for ‘Mockingbird’ are Sunday
The Greater Escambia Council for the Arts’ next production is “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Auditions will be held Sunday, August 13, at 2 p.m.
Man dead, woman critical after home invasion
Atmore police are investigating the second homicide within the city over the past five days after an early morning (Monday, August 7) home invasion left a Broad Street resident dead and his wife or female partner in critical condition. Police have still not released the identities and relationships of the shooting victims, but Chief Chuck Brooks said he would provide the names and some of the details later today. Police…
Two shot at Broad Street residence in Atmore
Details remained sketchy at 4 a.m. Monday (Aug. 7) but two people were reportedly shot inside a Broad Street residence about an hour earlier. Flashing blue and red lights continued to cut the early morning air as Atmore police and firefighters remained at the 170 Broad Street shooting scene. Yellow tape was stretched across the street at each end of the block on which the crime was apparently committed. Lt.…
Man in bad shape after late-Thursday shooting
Atmore police remained at midnight on the scene of a Thursday night shooting in the city’s northeastern sector that sent an unidentified man to a local hospital in serious condition. Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said late Thursday that police had not yet had an opportunity to determine the identity of the shooting victim. “We don’t have anything right now, other than folks in the apartments reported hearing three gun…
Fire ravages Tiger-Sul – Sulfur-laden smoke sends hundreds inside
A fire that apparently raged unchecked at an Atmore fertilizer plant for several hours before being discovered early Saturday morning (July 29) caused extensive damage to the facility, stopped production at a second factory for most of the day and forced hundreds of nearby residents to remain inside their homes for an extended period. The blaze, at Tiger-Sul Products on Industrial Drive (just off U.S. 31) sent sulfur-laced smoke into…