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Execution set for Ray in ’95 murder
News Staff Report Alabama Department of Corrections officials announced this week that an execution date has been set for convicted killer Dominique Ray. According to a DOC-issued press release, Ray’s 20-year designation as a condemned state inmate is scheduled to end at 6 p.m. on Thursday, February 7, at William C. Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore. Ray was convicted and sentenced to die in 1999 for the 1995 rape and…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Public schools to host conferences Thursday
All Escambia County Schools will host their Spring Parent / Teacher Conferences after the early dismissal of students on Thursday, January 7, from 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Each school will host sessions or activities for parents that may include information about what students are learning, how to interpret student testing reports, filling out the FAFSA, and many other topics important to parents. There will also be surveys for parents…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Truck misses stop sign, sails onto train tracks
The driver of a 2007 Chevy pickup was reportedly seriously injured this morning around 6 a.m. when she missed a stop sign and drove across fog-shrouded U.S. 31, went airborne and landed on a set of train tracks. The driver, Kimberly Kaye Clark (no age provided) of Century, Fla. was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. Traffic investigators had not determined by midday whether or not the thick fog…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Obituaries for the week of February 3,2019
Donald Elliott Strickland           Mr. Donald Elliott Strickland, age 87, of Walnut Hill, Fla., passed away Friday, February 1, 2019 in Pensacola, Fla. He was born in Bratt, Fla. to the late Walker E. and Gladys Wiggins Strickland. He was a member of Walnut Hill Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Willie Marie Amos Strickland; a son, George E. Strickland and…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
ECHS on failing school list
News Staff Report Escambia County High School has been listed by state education officials as a failing school and has been given an “F” in the second year of using a letter grade to assess the success or failure of individual schools. The grade is particularly tough to take this year since the school has shown overall improvement in other testing. In addition, ECHS has a 93 percent graduation rate…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago