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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…

Candyland Christmas Party is Saturday

News Staff Report Children of all ages from Atmore and the surrounding area are invited to celebrate the holiday season by attending one of the community’s longest-running holiday celebrations, the 12th annual Candyland Christmas Party, which will take place this Saturday, December 22, at Grace Fellowship Church. A “full meal” dinner, as well as snacks, will be provided to each person who attends the free event, which starts at 3…

Atmore man pulls into train’s path, seriously injured

News Staff Report A 20-year-old Atmore man was seriously injured late Thursday night (Dec. 13) after he apparently pulled his vehicle into the path of an oncoming freight train near Cantonment, Fla. According to Florida Highway Patrol reports, Dustin Ryan Crumbley was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital after the crash, which occurred around 11:45 p.m. at the intersection of Jacks Branch and Muscogee roads in the Panhandle community. Reports show…

Single-vehicle crash

An Atmore man, 23-year-old Desha R Jenkins, was seriously injured when his southbound 2001 Nissan Pathfinder reportedly ran off Jack Springs Road, hit either a bridge or tree stump and went airborne. It slammed into a tree roughly 10 feet off the ground, then dropped into a ditch. Alabama State Trooper reports show that the mishap happened around 7:15 p.m. last Friday, December 14, near the busy road’s McKenzie Drive…