Atmore News

Students attend Reality Campus
Special to Atmore News Reality Campus is an event hosted each year at Coastal Alabama Community College (Monroeville Campus) by the Educational Talent Search Program. Local high school students entering the 11th and 12th grades are invited to participate in a simulation in which they will go through the “college registration process.” Approximately 130 students participated in the recent simulation. They experience life as an “incoming college freshmen” and they…
Body ID’d as missing woman
News Staff Report According to published reports, Escambia County (Alabama) Sheriff’s Office investigators have received confirmation that a body found Sunday, December 9, along the banks of the Conecuh River is that of a Pollard woman who had been missing since November 24. WKRG-TV in Mobile and numerous other media outlets cited ECSO officials as the source for reports that forensic scientists at the state crime lab identified the remains…
Atmore News schedule
Working around the holidays By SHERRY DIGMON News Staff Writer At Atmore News, we often work around holidays, but we’re in a unique situation this month with Christmas falling on a Tuesday, which is our print and delivery day. Several weeks ago, we began talking with Bo Bolton, owner of the Monroe Journal where our paper is printed. Bo is shutting down the press Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 24 and…
2 arrested for prison contraband
News Staff Report Officers with the Alabama Department of Corrections’ Investigations & Intelligence Division, as part of a statewide effort to stop or limit the amount of drugs and other contraband that enters state prisons, arrested two women at different correctional facilities during inmate visitations on Saturday, December 15. One of the incidents occurred at William C. Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore, where DOC agents arrested Latonya Renee Presley, 40,…
Fugitive captured here after filing complaint
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer In the past two years, local law enforcement officers and federal marshals have located and taken into custody inside Atmore’s city limits individuals who fled here to escape the justice systems of Texas, Massachusetts and New York. Authorities can now add Michigan to the list. And the latest fugitive taken into custody in Atmore can only blame himself that his temporary freedom came to…