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Best-selling author wraps life lessons around humor
Andy Andrews By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer “Remember, you can’t believe everything you think.”Noted author Andy Andrews, who has written 26 fiction and non-fiction books, used that statement as a theme as he delivered life lessons cloaked in humor to the March 9 gathering of United Bank’s Joint Advisory Committee members and their guests at Wind Creek’s main conference room.Andrews’s books contain a hodgepodge of stories about the choices individuals…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago
Atmore men turned down for parole
Thomas McCants By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Two Atmore men were denied parole during recent hearings before the Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole.Lasherman L. Thomas, 37, was considered for and denied parole by the ABPP on March 1.He has been in prison since April 9, 2005, a span of 15 years, 7 months and 19 days — including more than 3 years in the county jail while awaiting trial…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago
Kidnap, assault charges filed after threat to kill girlfriend
Jenkins By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police recently announced the March 2 arrest of an Atmore man accused of cutting his girlfriend with a knife and threatening to kill her if she tried to leave his residence.APD Sgt. Darrell McMann said a woman came to the Atmore Police Department around 8:20 a.m. that day and reported that her boyfriend, 27-year-old Desha Jenkins, cut her with a knife during a…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago
Open house set for Dr. Marc Saunders
Dr. Saunders Special to Atmore News Atmore Community Hospital (ACH) will have an open house Tuesday, March 28, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. to welcome Dr. Marc Saunders, DO, FACS, to the Atmore community. The event will be open to the public at ACH Specialty Care located at 406 Medical Park Drive (formerly MedPlus building).Dr. Saunders received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from New York College of Osteopathic…
by Atmore News access_time1 year ago
Autopsy pending
Child death probe continues Rounsavall By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer City police detectives waited this week for autopsy results as they continued their investigation into the February 27 death of a 2-year-old child who was left for several hours inside his father’s truck.The autopsy is being conducted by scientists with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. According to the AFDS website, the postmortem exam could take “from 4-6 weeks.”Shawn Rounsavall,…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago