Atmore News

Obituaries, week of May 24,2020
Mary Jane McGhee Mrs. Mary Jane McGhee, age 72, passed away Monday, May 18, 2020 at her home in Atmore, Ala. She was a native and life-long resident of Atmore. She was a member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and the First Pentecostal Church of McCullough. She attended the Poarch Creek Sales Center and enjoyed sewing, making quilts, shelling peas and playing bingo. She was preceded in death…
Fugitive murder suspect shot, killed by FBI in Atmore
Tobby Wiggins talks with FBI agents from the front door of the mobile home in which he had been hiding. News photo by Ditto Gorme A fugitive murder suspect was shot and killed Wednesday (May 20) in Atmore while Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were trying to take him into custody. James E. Jewell, Special Agent in Charge for the FBI’s Mobile Division, said during a brief Wednesday night press…