Month: June 2025

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…

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.…

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 FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Hunt The Alabama Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision announced last week, has cleared the way for the execution of death row inmate Gregory Hunt, nearly 35 years after he was convicted of the 1988 beating death of a Walker County woman.All nine justices signed off on a ruling that authorized the execution to begin no less than 30 days from the date the order…