Month: April 2021

Atmore News

Fire causes moderate damage
Special to Atmore News City firefighters spent less than 40 minutes battling a Sunday afternoon (April 18) kitchen fire that caused moderate damage to a Tumbling Lane residence.Atmore Fire Department reports show that units were dispatched at 3:17 p.m. to the rural site, which is in the Canoe community. Firemen arrived six minutes later and were able to bring the small blaze under control by 4 p.m.AFD personnel contained the…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
No early release for long-time inmates
Thomason Swint By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Two state inmates, including one who was convicted of killing an Escambia County man in 2005, were denied parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Bureau of Pardons & Paroles.Darryl Swint, who is in his 27th year of state confinement, and Ian Lamar Thomason, who has been behind bars for almost 12 years, were turned down in their respective bids for early release.Swint,…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Gaming bill passes Senate, but voter consideration still long way off
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer State Senator Greg Albritton, who helped put together the comprehensive statewide gaming bill that recently passed the Alabama Senate, said this week there were two solid reasons he pushed for passage of the legislation.“First off, if it gets to the people, I think it will be voted in overwhelmingly,” Albritton, who resides in Atmore, said prior to the Monday (April 19) meeting of the county’s…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Mother clarifies son’s death
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Although no official entity had confirmed it by midday Tuesday, the mother of an Atmore trucker who died April 6 while hauling rock in his tractor-trailer rig, said her son was dead before his truck ever made contact with any structure.The woman, who did not want her name published, said 52-year-old Larry Dean Milliken Jr. died of a heart attack, not as a result of…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
GOP addresses court, other issues in Atmore
State Rep. Alan Baker, at left, talks with county school board President Cindy Jackson. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer More than 40 area Republicans, including 13 elected officials and one political hopeful, gathered Monday, April 19, at Atmore City Hall to pledge their support for a move to maintain the current makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court and to hear two state lawmakers discuss the shape of state government under…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago