Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Bank robber pleads guilty to bribing ECDC officer
Young By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Selma man, already convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison for robbing a South Alabama bank two years ago, was ordered to serve an additional 30 months after admitting that he bribed an Escambia County Detention Center officer while being held in the facility.Stanley Young, 34, entered a guilty plea to the federal bank robbery charge in June. While being held in…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Domestic incident leads to felony drug arrest
Harris By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A 28-year-old Atmore man was arrested September 28 on a felony drug charge after city police responded to a report of a domestic incident at a house on Bragg Street.Police were called to the residence around 1:35 p.m. after the suspect, D’Darrius Harris, had refused to leave his ex-girlfriend’s home. Harris also told the responding officer he wasn’t going to leave.When the policeman approached…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Blue Devils fall to Jackson
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Prior to the opening of the football season, first-year Escambia County High coach Vincent Harris made only one promise about his effort to rebuild the ECHS program. Harris promised that, win or lose, his team would not quit.The Blue Devils kept up their end of the bargain last Friday, September 30. Although the team fell to Class 4A, Region 1 foe Jackson by a 49-21…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Gulf Winds donates to Main Street façade fund
Shown from left with the facsimile check are Shinora Redmond, Sheilo Faircloth, Frank Giammaria, Shea Gilchrist, Ashley Jansky, Lee Ann Allen, Niki Bryan and Dale Ash. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Main Street Atmore’s Façade Incentive Program fund grew by $5,000 September 30, thanks to a sizable gift from a regional lending institution with a branch in Atmore.Officials and employees of Gulf Winds Credit Union presented Main Street Executive Director…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Split vote
BOE rejects proposed $60K car purchase for superintendent By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Members of the Escambia County Board of Education voted — though not unanimously — during the BOE’s September 22 meeting to spend just under $94,000 for new vehicles to be driven by the school system’s three second-tier administrators but rejected a proposal to spend nearly $60,000 for a new vehicle for Superintendent Michele McClung. After a…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago