Year: 2020

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America needs building up, not tearing down
Byrne Our brilliant Founders built our democracy upon two different but complimentary pillars. The first and more obvious pillar is our constitutional system itself, what the writers of the Federalist Papers called the “new science of politics.” Our representative democracy would not be possible without our revolutionary constitution and the laws that uphold it, separation and enumeration of powers, and effective checks and balances. The second pillar is more difficult…
by Submitted Article access_time6 years ago
6 more sodomy counts against Monroeville preacher
Gibbs By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Local charges are still pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations that a Monroeville preacher, who also has an Atmore church, committed sexual offenses against at least one child here. That’s not the case in the preacher’s home county. According to sources in Monroeville, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested Garyl Jermaine Gibbs, 47, last week on warrants accusing him of four…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
No parole for 3 convicted in Escambia Co.
Booker Duncan By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles denied last week parole for two men who were convicted in Escambia County Circuit Court. The denials — for Wallace K. Booker and Kelly Edward Duncan — came during hearings held by the board on June 17. Booker, who is housed at Fountain Correctional Facility, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Mobile…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Prison contraband
DOC announces 22 free-world arrests News Staff Report Alabama Department of Corrections officials announced this week that the department’s Law Enforcement Services Division made numerous arrests over the past three months of staff members and free-world individuals attempting to introduce illegal contraband into correctional facilities. Three of 22 free-world arrests were made at Fountain Correctional Facility near Atmore. No details, names of those arrested or mug shots of the suspects…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
‘Healing’ meeting
Dialogue, but no plan yet, for bridging racial divide The Rev. Dr. Monroe Tucker, front, facing the audience, gave the benediction to dismiss the meeting By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The public meeting held last Thursday, June 18, at Atmore City Hall Auditorium was the second in a proposed series of sessions designed to provide dialogue that could ultimately help devise a plan to bridge the gap between residents…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago