Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Shots fired
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Three juveniles were briefly detained by police, but no charges were filed after several shots were fired early Saturday, April 26, on East School Street.Atmore Police Department (APD) Sgt. Darrell McMann said city patrol officers heard shots in an area east of South Main Street around 4:45 a.m. and headed in that direction.As officers looked for signs of the shooting, emergency dispatchers relayed several reports…
by Don Fletcher access_time11 months ago
Annual Mayfest celebration is Saturday
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Mayfest, Atmore’s celebration of Spring and its springboard into summer, will take place from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. this Saturday, May 3, with a few changes from the community festival’s normal format.Several thousand residents and visitors are expected to mingle at Tom Byrne Park, where nearly 100 vendors will be doing business or providing information at the ring of booths that surround the park.…
by Don Fletcher access_time11 months ago
BOE meeting
‘Start-up library’ materials bought for ACMPS; repairs, improvements at ECHS By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education approved during their April 24 meeting the expenditure of more than $600,000 to purchase various technology and services for local schools and to pay for completion of some minor renovation and repair work. Among the items approved by the board, were the purchase of library materials for A.C.…
by Don Fletcher access_time11 months ago
Freemanville man denied parole
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Edmund Maurice Deese Deese A Freemanville man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for providing law enforcement officers with a false identification, was denied parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & ParolesAccording to Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) records, Edmund Maurice Deese was convicted in 2022 of obstructing justice by using a fake ID and was ordered to serve…
by Don Fletcher access_time11 months ago
Convicted killer James Osgood put to death
Osgood By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer James Osgood, convicted in 2014 of the brutal rape and murder of his girlfriend’s cousin four years earlier, was executed by lethal injection last Thursday, April 24, at William C. Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore.Osgood was sentenced to death for the capital murder of Tracy Lynn Brown Wilemon, a 44-year-old recently divorced mother, in Chilton County.According to court documents, Osgood confessed to Chilton County…
by Don Fletcher access_time11 months ago