Day: June 4, 2025

Don Fletcher

Greyhound service returns to Atmore
Buses will stop at the train depot By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Greyhound, the largest provider of intercity bus services in the U.S., announced that the bus line, a Flix North America company, has expanded its service in Alabama to include two daily stops in Atmore.Beginning Wednesday, June 4, Greyhound will reinstate curbside passenger pickup and drop-off twice daily at the area next to the train depot adjacent to Atmore…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 month ago
Search continues for suspect in Atmore man’s murder
Andrews By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Area authorities continued at Tuesday’s press deadline their search for a Bay Minette man with a violent criminal past who is wanted in the Friday night, May 23, shooting death of an Atmore man outside a Bay Minette house party.Bay Minette Police Department (BMPD) officials have obtained an arrest warrant charging 28-year-old Decareus Keywon Mallory Andrews with murder. Andrews is believed to have fired…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 month ago
Car goes airborne, crashes near Nokomis
The car landed upside down in a ravine By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Maryland man, who told authorities he was “joy riding” and “sight-seeing” along the rural roads around Nokomis, apparently at a high rate of speed, escaped serious injury when his car went airborne, jumped a bridge and landed upside down in a ravine next to the CSX railroad tracks last Thursday, May 29.Jerry Gehman, a captain with…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 month ago
Only 3 fatalities reported during Memorial Day weekend
Special to Atmore News Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) officials announced a notable decrease in traffic and marine-related fatalities over the 2025 Memorial Day holiday weekend, compared to the same period last year.ALEA reported that from Friday, May 23, to Monday, May 26, Alabama State Troopers investigated only three traffic-related fatalities — one each in Pike, Morgan and Bibb counties — this year, a 50-percent reduction from six in 2024.…
by Atmore News access_time1 month ago
No parole for man convicted of Atmore, Bay Minette robberies
Gray By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles recently denied parole for an Atmore man who was convicted in 2012 of robbing two Atmore businesses and one in Bay Minette.Shoat Bryon Gray was sentenced to 20 years in prison after his second-degree robbery conviction. He was also sentenced to a pair of 15-year sentences for first-degree robbery but is serving them concurrently with the lesser…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 month ago