Month: December 2023

Empty-handed juveniles arrested for series of vehicle break-ins By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Six juveniles who broke into a series of vehicles along East Laurel Street last week got nothing but trouble for their trouble.Atmore police reported December 19 that the six teens — all between the ages of 14 and 17 —were taken into custody after officers spotted “several suspicious people” in the city street’s 700 block. Four of…

Principal Forrest Jones in front of ECMS By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Escambia County Middle School Principal Forrest Jones, who took over the reins of the struggling school in April 2022, said there’s no real secret behind the impressive score ECMS received on its latest state report card.“There’s no magic to it,” Jones said. “It’s just the teachers in the classroom, teaching. That’s the biggest thing.”ECMS posted one of the…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer From the early 1940s until the mid-1970s, thousands of men and women across the country put their high school educations on hold and joined the nation’s military effort during three major conflicts.Instead of marching across a stage to receive a diploma, these individuals were either marching across Europe and the Pacific to take on Germany, Japan and their allies in World War II, or marching…

Lopez By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Former Atmore and Flomaton policeman Isaac R. Lopez was recently ordered by a Florida judge to serve 10 years in the Sunshine State’s penal system in exchange for his guilty plea to trafficking in amphetamine.Court documents show the former lawman entered a guilty plea before Judge Coleman Robison to one count each of trafficking in more than 28 grams and less than 200 grams…