Author: Don Fletcher

Jacob Ahern Krystle Ahern By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An Atmore couple remained behind bars without bond at midweek, charged with drug trafficking after authorities seized more than an ounce of methamphetamine during a search of their residence. According to documents obtained by Atmore News, 30-year-old Jacob Lee Ahern and Krystle Olivia Ahern, 34, were placed under arrest by one of three probation officers who conducted the February 16…

Atmore men charged in Patterson St. Apartments assault Burrell White By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Two Atmore men have been arrested in connection with the February 19 beating and shooting of another local man at Patterson Street Apartments. Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks reported in a Tuesday, February 23, press release that 52-year-old Terry James Burrell was arrested Monday and charged with one count of attempted murder in the…

Madden’s brand-new F-150 was totaled. Brittingham was able to crawl from his flattened GMC. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Three area men — two pickup drivers and a passenger in one of the trucks — escaped with only minor injuries February 16 after the vehicles collided head-on on U.S. 31, near Wawbeek. According to Alabama State Trooper reports, the violent collision occurred around 1:50 p.m. when Robert Brittingham, 25,…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Escambia County Healthcare Authority officials reported this week that more than 1,700 people have been administered the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination at the county health department and the county’s two hospitals, with almost 600 individuals having received both doses. An ECHCA spokesman said that through last Friday, February 12, that “approximately 1,290” first-dose inoculations had been administered at Atmore Community Hospital, along…