Month: May 2022

The VFW will present the MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM Monday May 30, 9 a.m., at the Veterans Monument in front of city hall. The American Legion will also be part of the program. Some chairs will be available or you may bring your folding chair.

Arrested at APD for drug possession Cole By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A local man got plenty of attention from Atmore police when he came to APD headquarters and reported his vehicle missing. It just wasn’t the attention he had hoped for.Sgt. Darrell McMann reported that around 12:45 p.m. on May 7, Damien Deandre Cole, 31, “came to the Atmore Police Department requesting assistance in locating his vehicle.”Reports show that…

Alabama State Troopers report that a Kentucky trucker, 51-year-old Roderick J. Tejeda, escaped serious injury when his 2019 Freightliner Tractor ran off Interstate 65, struck a guardrail and burst into flames around 6:10 a.m., Saturday, May 14. The mishap occurred at I-65’s 51.4-mile marker and caused the closure of the interstate for almost four hours and the diversion of traffic onto the Jack Springs Road and Perdido exits. Atmore Fire…

Trice By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore woman remained in the county jail this week, charged with hitting her boyfriend with a dumbbell during an argument.According to Atmore Police Department reports, officers were sent to a residence near the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and America Lane, where a resident reported “a female walking up to the residence, covered in blood.”Police eventually discovered that the woman, 47-year-old…

Knighten By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man was arrested by city police last Friday, May 13, several hours after he was seen on surveillance video entering a pair of unlocked vehicles at a local funeral parlor and taking property from them.Sgt. Darrell McMann reported that the break-ins happened around 3:55 a.m. at Petty Funeral Home on East Nashville Avenue (U.S. 31). The video, which police viewed with funeral…