Year: 2019

Sherry Digmon

ECHS Class of 2019 breaks record
By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher A couple of weeks ago, on Phil Johnson’s early morning radio show, Escambia County High School Principal Dennis Fuqua talked about the school, mentioning among other things the Class of 2019 and the pending scholarship amount that would be announced at Class Day. He didn’t give anything away, saying that he realized of course at some point the records would no longer be set. At…
by Sherry Digmon access_time6 years ago
Life without parole
McCaster pleads to intentional murder By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An Atmore man, arrested nearly five years ago and charged with capital murder in the June 2013 strangulation death of an Atmore woman, avoided a possible death sentence by entering a guilty plea last week in Escambia County Circuit Court to a lesser charge. Collis McCaster, 45, swapped a guilty plea to intentional murder in exchange for a sentence…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Deadly party
1 killed, 8 wounded, as gunfire shatters celebration By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Friday, May 17, was a red-letter day for Escambia County High School. Little did anyone know that the school’s fortunes would take a 180-degree turn before the sun rose on May 18. A Friday announcement that the Class of 2019 had set a new record for the dollar-value of scholarships earned was followed by the football…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Obituaries for week of May 19, 2019
J.C. Marshall Mr. J.C. Marshall, age 85, passed away Monday, May 13, 2019 at his home in Canoe, Ala. He was a native and life-long resident of Canoe. He loved Alabama football. He was a member of Canoe First Baptist Church. He worked for Stuckey Oil Company with twenty years of service; had his own truck he leased to Genie Trucking Company for six years; worked at Creek Travel Plaza…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
1 killed, 8 wounded at graduation party
On Saturday, May 18, at approximately 2 a.m., the Atmore Police Department received a 911 call in response to shots being fired at 100 Martin Luther King Drive, Atmore. The location on Martin Luther King Drive is formerly the Escambia County Middle School but now serves as a community center. Atmore police arrived on scene and immediately heard gun shots going off around the property. Officers began assisting the gunshot…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago