Author: Don Fletcher

Webster By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Jerome Webster, who guided Escambia Academy’s boys basketball team to this season’s Alabama Independent School Association (AISA) Class A state championship, has been selected by the Alabama Sports Writers Association (ASWA) as the state’s AISA Coach of the Year.One of Webster’s veteran players earned a first-team slot on ASWA’s all-classification All State team, and a senior who was playing his first full season at…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore Police Department’s separate investigations into a pair of December shootings that occurred two weeks apart on Ashley Street, including one in which two local men were murdered, have been moved to a back burner.It’s not that local police don’t have evidence that could tie one or more individuals to one or both of the crimes. It’s just that an overworked and understaffed state crime…

Janes By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore woman, charged with driving under the influence of an unspecified substance in causing the death of her 2-year-old son and injuries to herself and six other people in a February crash near Atmore Country Club, was released from jail last Thursday.According to an employee of Circuit Clerk John Robert Fountain’s office, 31-year-old Sarah Emily Janes was released after a $500,000 bond, set…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council members gave unanimous approval during their Monday (March 10) meeting to an application for a grant that will help pay for the extra patrols Police Chief Chuck Brooks implemented in the wake of the gun violence that plagued the community in November and December.Brooks told council members the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) grant, a $75,000 award that will be in effect…