Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Economic development tops 2021 news
Work on $87 million peanut mill began in January By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Note: This article features a look back at the top stories in and around Atmore during the first half of 2021.Despite COVID-fueled price hikes that sent materials costs soaring and slowed several projects over the final half of the year, economic development was the top local story in 2021.A disappointing shift in the geographic location of…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Pensacola woman, Bay Minette man busted here
Thompson Ivey By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Escambia County, Fla. woman was the last person arrested by Atmore police on felony drug possession charges in 2021, and a Baldwin County man was the first to face such charges in the new year.Police Chief Chuck Brooks reported this week that the out-of-towners — Tiffany Ann Ivey, 38, of Pensacola, and Tevin Thompson, 29, of Bay Minette — were each arrested…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Brewton man granted parole; 2 others turned down
Crawford Pugh Maye By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Two Brewton men, each sentenced to a lengthy term in prison, got different results from hearings held recently by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles. The board denied parole for one but determined that another had paid his debt to society.Parole was granted for 31-year-old Marcus Allan Crawford, who was sentenced in 2020 to serve 10 years and had served slightly…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Off Death Row
Appeals court overturns Yeiter’s conviction for Escambia pastor’s slaying Yeiter By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Brett Richard Yeiter, up until just over a week ago one of three individuals on Alabama’s Death Row for Escambia County murder convictions, has regained his status as an un-convicted defendant.On December 17, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals ordered that Yeiter, convicted and sentenced to death here in 2019 for the 2014 shotgun murder…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
In pursuit
Suspect runs light, slams into truck, couple hurt Weese First responders work to free the couple By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Flomaton couple was seriously injured December 23 when an Atmore theft suspect, with two Atmore police units in pursuit, ran through a red light at the intersection of Main and Church streets and slammed into the couple’s pickup.Joseph Allen Weese, 33, is charged with two counts of first-degree…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago