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Alabama State Troopers report that a Kentucky trucker, 51-year-old Roderick J. Tejeda, escaped serious injury when his 2019 Freightliner Tractor ran off Interstate 65, struck a guardrail and burst into flames around 6:10 a.m., Saturday, May 14. The mishap occurred at I-65’s 51.4-mile marker and caused the closure of the interstate for almost four hours and the diversion of traffic onto the Jack Springs Road and Perdido exits. Atmore Fire…

Trice By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore woman remained in the county jail this week, charged with hitting her boyfriend with a dumbbell during an argument.According to Atmore Police Department reports, officers were sent to a residence near the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and America Lane, where a resident reported “a female walking up to the residence, covered in blood.”Police eventually discovered that the woman, 47-year-old…

Knighten By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man was arrested by city police last Friday, May 13, several hours after he was seen on surveillance video entering a pair of unlocked vehicles at a local funeral parlor and taking property from them.Sgt. Darrell McMann reported that the break-ins happened around 3:55 a.m. at Petty Funeral Home on East Nashville Avenue (U.S. 31). The video, which police viewed with funeral…

News Staff Report During a May 12 Board of Education called meeting, Escambia County Superintendent of Education Michele McClung revealed more details on the Alabama First-Class Pre-K program that is set for implementation in January in the A.C. Moore Elementary School building.The state-funded program, which is cost-free and voluntary, is for youngsters who will be age 4 on September 1. McClung told BOE members that state education officials have allocated…

Zeiglar The following announcement was submitted to Atmore News by the Alabama Press Association as a paid service on behalf of the candidate. It is printed as submitted with the exception of some spacing.State Auditor Jim Zeigler (R) has qualified to run for the open seat of Secretary of State. He will run in the May 24th Republican primary for the seat being left by outgoing Secretary of State John…