Day: February 14, 2024

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Escambia County High’s boys basketball team continued to pick up steam last weekend, knocking off Bullock County by a 51-42 score in AHSAA Class 4A South Subregionals action on Saturday, February 10, and advancing into the South Regional semifinals.Cleo Bolar Jr. scored 20 points to help lead the way for the Blue Devils. According to the AHSAA website, ECHS will meet UMS-Wright in a semifinals…

Gaiters By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A part-time emergency dispatcher with the Atmore Police Department, who also works as a Poarch Creek Indians Tribal Police dispatcher, was arrested last Thursday, February 8, after an internal APD investigation led to charges that he made sexual advances toward an inmate in the city lockup.According to a press release issued last week by Sgt. Darrell McMann, 41-year-old Lucas Gaiters was fired from his…

Local man jailed for stolen property, forgery, drug possession By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Hovance An Atmore man, 53-year-old John Kenneth Hovance, was arrested February 8 by city police on numerous felony charges, According to Atmore Police Department reports, APD patrol officers were advised around 6:25 p.m. to be on the lookout for a stolen vehicle that had reportedly been seen in the Freemanville Drive area.Officers located the vehicle and…

Stacey Thomas Shiffner By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Three people convicted of being accessories after the fact to the 2018 murder of one man and attempted murder of another at a Walnut Hill residence have been sentenced to stiff prison sentences and have begun serving them.Court documents and published reports show that Christopher James Logan Stacey of Atmore, Jessica Nicole Thomas, in whose home the murder and attempted murder took…