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News Staff Report The Escambia County Board of Education addressed a number of issues in regular session Thursday, October 28. Superintendent Michele McClung presented a proposal to the board currently for information only. She is looking into contracting with Kelly Educational Services (KES) to manage substitutes due to the shortage of personnel. The system is almost at a crisis level, McClung said. In fact, she related an incident in a…

Hartley By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man who told an Escambia County, Ala. judge earlier this year he refused to comply with the Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (SORNA) in order that he would be sent to prison, has been arrested again for a sex crime, this time in Escambia County, Fla.Antonio Dywone Hartley, 29, who gave authorities an address on Dailey Street in Atmore and an…

The historic marker for Escambia County Training School on Martin Luther King Drive was re-dedicated Friday, October 29. The original marker was unveiled five years ago but was damaged during the Hurricane Sally cleanup effort. Shown at the re-dedication are, from left, Rhonda McCorvey, Barbara McCoy, Willie J. Grissett, Herb Hackman, Karean Reynolds (who spearheaded the funding for the new marker), Sandra Gray.

Emergency crews work to clear the scene of the accident By JOSH FRYENews Staff Writer A violent, mid-morning crash claimed the life of an Atmore man Monday, October 25.According to Senior Alabama State Trooper Anna Peoples, Robert Marion Hadley, 62, was traveling northbound within the southbound lane of Alabama Highway 21 in a white 2010 Ford F-150 at mile marker three, directly in front of Oak Hill Cemetery’s main entrance,…

Convicted of Escambia murders, trio await fate on Death Row Peraita Floyd Yeiter By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer When Willie B. Smith III was executed last week at William C. Holman Correctional Facility — almost 30 years to the day after he abducted and killed 22-year-old Sharma Ruth Johnson near Birmingham — he died nearly 200 miles from the site of his crime.Three other Holman inmates scheduled to eventually pay…