Author: Don Fletcher

BOE, McClung swap offers, counteroffers McClung By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education and superintendent-selectee Michele M. McClung have swapped offers and counter offers this week as negotiations continued to determine whether McClung would be the replacement for current Superintendent of Education John Knott, whose extended contract expires August 31.BOE Chair Cindy Jackson said she hoped that the board and McClung who has served as director…

Carter Bowman By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man and woman were arrested on felony drug charges last Thursday, August 5, after police responded to reports of an ongoing argument in the yard of an East Horner Street residence.The verbal combatants — Dewitt Champ Carter, 25, of Atmore, and Anna Leigh Bowman, 20, of Bay Minette — were arrested after police spotted unspecified quantities of Spice and methamphetamine in…

McGhee Brooks By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said this week that his agency’s recent spate of felony drug arrests is not the result of some recently launched crackdown on those who buy, sell and possess substances controlled under law. Neither has it anything to do with cases that were made when the COVID-19 pandemic kept the county jail closed to non-violent criminals.“These are all current…

Jimenez By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore teenager was arrested recently by county sheriff’s investigators after a brief probe into charges he encouraged a toddler to fondle his private parts.Details are sketchy, but Escambia County Sheriff’s Office records show that Kevin Dalton Jimenez, 18, of a Bama Road address, is charged with one count of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12.Court documents show the sexual…

Classic Impala from ‘Bubba Cruz 4’ stolen, burned At this year’s Bubba Cruz 4 parade. The car was burn almost beyond recognition. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer While authorities continued this week to look for clues, members of the Lottie community’s Ardis family continued to wonder who might have stolen a classic Chevrolet Impala last week, parked it beside a rural road, then set fire to it.One of the sleekest…