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Carjacker captured
Officer-involved shooting under investigation Investigators discuss the shooting inside a cordoned-off area. By JOSH FRYE News Staff Writer Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is still conducting a probe into the officer-involved shooting that occurred early Friday, January 8, at Creek Travel Plaza. Reports are that at approximately 5 a.m., Poarch Creek Indian Tribal Police officers attempted to make contact with a carjacking suspect in the…
Nokomis murder victim identified
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson announced this week that forensic pathologists with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences have finally identified the person whose desecrated body was found more than four months ago in a forested area near Nokomis. Jackson said ADFS doctors have confirmed that the body is that of 23-year-old Toyshia Ceara Snowden of Atmore, who was reported missing in August. Her…
Officer Involved Shooting
Photo (Josh Frye): Investigators discussed the incident at the scene Friday morning. Update On Friday, January 8. 2021, at the request of Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, Special Agents with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) are investigating an officer‐involved shooting on Friday, January 8, 2021 involving Poarch Tribal Police. One person was injured in the shooting and transported to a nearby medical facility for treatment. None…
Obituaries, week of January 10, 2021
Lois Shell Wiggins Wiggins Mrs. Lois Shell Wiggins, age 93, of Walnut Hill, Fla., passed away Tuesday, January 5, 2021. She was born in Birmingham, Ala.  She was a former secretary, Sunday school teacher and a member of WMU for many years with Walnut Hill Baptist Church before becoming a member and Treasurer of First Baptist Church of Bratt, Fla..  She was preceded in death by her mother, Claudie Mae…
COVID-19 update
Local numbers continue to climb News Staff Report According to the January 5 report issued by Escambia County Healthcare Authority, 224 new cases have been confirmed among Escambia County residents since December 29. Statewide, almost 28,000 (27,789) new cases have been reported since December 29, bringing Alabama’s total to 379,593. Atmore Community Hospital has now collected 845 samples that tested positive for the novel coronavirus, up 68 from the December…