Year: 2019

News Staff Report The Florida Highway Patrol’s Operation Safe DRIVE (Distracted Reckless Impaired Visibility Enforcement) safety campaign began Tuesday and will continue through Thursday, June 27. FHP joins several southeastern law enforcement partners who participate in the Safe DRIVE campaign is a high visibility, education and enforcement initiative designed to deter behaviors that contribute to commercial and non-commercial motor vehicle crashes. “FHP Troopers will be highly visible on I-95, I-75…

News Staff Report An East Brewton man, charged more than two years ago with sexually abusing two children, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison after he entered a guilty plea to sexually abusing those children and at least two others. William Douglas Smith, 58, faced life in prison but the plea reduced dramatically the amount of time he will actually spend behind bars. Smith lived in Brewton at…

A benefit for Trent Atchison is scheduled for this weekend Saturday, June 29, 6 p.m., and Sunday, June 30, 3 p.m., at Emmanuel’s Faith Center, 710 East Ridgeley Street, Atmore. The benefit will feature the youth group The Gospel Voices in concert as they celebrate their anniversary. Charles Johnson, surrogate father to Trent, is manager of the group. Proceeds from the concert will be used to further adapt Atchison’s home.…

News Staff Report A Flomaton man, indicted for murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend more than two years ago, accepted a plea deal that calls for him to spend the next two years in prison, with three years of community corrections after his release. Shannon Heath Bell, 33, entered the guilty plea last week in Escambia County Circuit Court, just prior to his case going to trial. He…