Day: May 19, 2021

News Staff Report The grocery giveaway, jointly sponsored by Pensacola Caring Hearts and the City of Atmore and originally announced as taking place on Saturday, will actually be held this Friday, May 21.The food distribution is set to begin at 10 a.m. in Houston Avery Park, located at 200 Park Drive. It is open to anyone, although its specified purpose is to help families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.For more…

Danny Fox Armstrong By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer [Atmore News was contacted by the victim’s family and asked to find answers for them if we could.] The siblings of an Atmore man, whose body was found in the yard of his Ewing Drive home in November 2016, are having a difficult time coming to grips with the decision by prosecutors to reduce the charges against the man accused of killing…

McCaster By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A state inmate who was sentenced in 2019 to life in prison without parole for the 2013 murder of an Atmore woman, was recently found dead in his prison cell.A spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) said there are no indications that the death of Collis McCaster, a former resident of Castleberry, was due to anything other than natural causes.“Collis McCaster, a…

Mallory By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Escambia County High School community, still trying to cope with the recent death of one of its coaches, is now trying to deal with the untimely passing of a member of its student body.“Right now, our students are taking it fairly well,” ECHS Principal Amy Cabaniss said of the death last Friday of Elijah Mallory, a junior-level student who had been taking classes…