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By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer While Federal Bureau of Investigation agents search for three “persons of interest” in fires at four Gulf Coast Walmart stores – including two in Mobile – company officials are taking steps to prevent another fire from happening.Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks confirmed Monday, June 7, reports that off-duty APD officers have been hired to help keep watch over the local store.“Walmart has hired off-duty officers…

McGhee Hollinger Martin News Staff Report The three incumbents in the Poarch Creek Tribal Council election held Saturday, June 5, had no trouble keeping their seats. All three won handily.Robert “Robbie” McGhee kept his position as council vice chairman defeating his only challenger, Anthony G. Pebbles, 806 to 138. There were four write-in votes.The two at-large incumbents, Sandy Fretwell Hollinger and Keith Martin, were challenged by six candidates.The vote was…

Atmore man charged Boyter By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man is free on $100,000 bond after an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office investigation determined that he was engaged in illegal surveillance of a young woman.Robert Gray Boyter, 32, was arrested May 26 and charged with one count of aggravated criminal surveillance, a Class A misdemeanor under Alabama law. He was released from the Escambia County Detention Center May 28,…

Child succumbs after being pulled from pool Jaidan News Staff Report The Atmore area is mourning the loss of another child after a 4-year-old Walnut Hill boy succumbed last weekend to the effects of falling into a residential swimming pool.Authorities in Escambia County, Fla. reported that Jaidan Peters passed away Saturday, June 5, four days after he was found unresponsive in the pool.The accident occurred around 6:45 p.m., June 1,…

From left, DeMarcus McMillian, AJ Beachy, Austin Snyder, Daniel Love, Cameron Cloud, Danny White, Zack Stewart, Dee Guy, Kyle Hostetler, Shane Rollin, Eugene Edwards, Trent Peebles, Chris Hughes, Gordon Brooks, Brandon Barber, Cody Norton, Guyel Martin, Logan Weber, umpire Raymond Robinson, Kentrae Boggan, Thaihee Staples, Adrian King, Josh Dorriety, Bailey Bass, home plate umpire Chris Harrison. Not pictured are Clay Smith, Tommy America and Josh Hochstetler. By SHERRY DIGMONNews Publisher…