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Bullard By JOSH FRYENews Staff Writer Escambia County High School has suffered yet another tragedy. Less than six months after the passing of ECHS football and basketball coach John Shears, it was confirmed last week by ECHS’s athletic coordinator Scott Mason that ECHS football coach, former baseball coach and head girls basketball coach, Kasuan D. Bullard, 39, was killed in a two-vehicle traffic accident Monday (Aug. 2) on Cochran Causeway…

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…

Escambia County Health Department’s Atmore office will continue to offer, without appointments, free COVID-19 vaccinations from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. each Monday during August. The Atmore office, located in the satellite courthouse off U.S. 31 (East Nashville Avenue), will offer the immunizations on August 9, 16, 23 and 30.

Williamson By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A wheelchair-bound Atmore man, sought as a shoplifting suspect, also wound up with a felony drug charge after he was found to be in possession of a small amount of synthetic marijuana.Atmore Police Department Capt. John Stallworth reported that city police were called July 22 to Dollar General on South Main Street.The store manager reported that a man in a wheelchair was spotted concealing…