Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Wanted in Missouri
Fugitive felon captured after domestic disturbance White By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer For the past three-plus years, Atmore has been a magnet for individuals on the run from authorities in other states. A North Carolina fugitive murder suspect was shot to death by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a standoff here last May, and outlaws from five different states have also been captured here since 2017.The latest fugitive apprehension…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Price of progress
Heavy trucks not causing problems on city streets …yet Paving crews lay asphalt on Howard Street during the city’s 2019 resurfacing project. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A significant increase in the number of heavy trucks hauling construction equipment and materials to the numerous construction projects ongoing within Atmore apparently hasn’t had a negative effect on city streets. Yet.“Our streets are in pretty good shape right now,” said Calvin Grace,…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Young LDS elders helping keep city clean
Kelsey Smith By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer When Isaac Kelsey and Cameron Smith travel across Atmore and the surrounding area, testifying for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they carry a Book of Mormon with them.For the past few weeks, the two young men have been seen every other day carrying five-gallon buckets and grabbers.Isaac, 22, and Cameron, 20 — both elders of the church’s Melchizedek priesthood —…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Drug dealer paroled, murderer denied
Taylor Allen By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer While a former East Brewton drug dealer was granted parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Bureau of Pardons & Paroles, another Escambia County man, convicted more than a quarter-century ago of murder, found out he will spend at least 25 more years behind bars.Jemartin Tarell Allen, 38, was able to walk out of Kilby Correctional Facility after the board decided that he…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Atmore News credited with helping reunite runaway, family
Bundrum By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Daphne teen who left a Baldwin County diversion center March 16 without permission was found safe and sound in Georgia and is now back in the care of relatives.Rebekah Bundrum, 15-year-old runaway, turned herself in and called her mother around 4 p.m. March 23 after reaching Cartersville, Ga., said her aunt, Deanna Simpson, who credited Atmore News with helping safely bring to an…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago