Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

$1 million bond
Atmore man charged with trafficking in pot By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A 65-year-old resident of Atmore’s Point Escambia senior housing complex remained in the county jail this week, held under a $1 million bond and facing mandatory prison time, after his arrest last week on marijuana trafficking charges. State narcotics agents, backed by city police officers and county sheriff’s deputies, executed a search warrant June 3 on the…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Price executed nearly 28 years after pastor’s murder
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The execution of death row inmate Christopher Lee Price, convicted in 1993 of the 1991 murder of a Fayette County preacher, was finally carried out at 8:12 p.m. last Thursday, May 30, at Holman Correctional Facility. The execution went ahead after the U.S. Supreme Court, hearing Price’s appeal for the second time, narrowly rejected (by a 5-4 margin) a request for a stay filed…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Too dry to try!
Chief cautions against outdoor burning By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Fire Chief Ron Peebles doesn’t know just when it’s coming. But the veteran firefighter is sure that it is coming. While no official drought declaration or burn ban has been issued or implemented by state fire officials, Peebles has seen his share of the grass and field fires that get out of hand each year or those that…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Wind Creek buys Sands Casino Resort
Poarch tribe makes $1.3B property its 10th gaming operation By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Wind Creek Hospitality’s newest acquisition marks not only the 10th gaming facility now under control of Poarch Band of Creek Indians, but also represents the largest gambling operation in the Tribe’s portfolio. Wind Creek Hospitality, the name under which PCI Gaming Authority does business, announced late last week that the tribe had completed a long,…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
PCI helping fund IT academy at ECHS
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Thanks to a donation from Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Escambia County High School’s dream of a new Academy of Information Technology is a step closer to becoming reality. Escambia County School System officials and officials of Alabama’s only federally recognized Native American tribe issued a joint statement regarding the new IT academy, which is scheduled to become part of the ECHS curriculum for…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago