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Officer-involved shooting under investigation Investigators discuss the shooting inside a cordoned-off area. By JOSH FRYE News Staff Writer Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is still conducting a probe into the officer-involved shooting that occurred early Friday, January 8, at Creek Travel Plaza. Reports are that at approximately 5 a.m., Poarch Creek Indian Tribal Police officers attempted to make contact with a carjacking suspect in the…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson announced this week that forensic pathologists with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences have finally identified the person whose desecrated body was found more than four months ago in a forested area near Nokomis. Jackson said ADFS doctors have confirmed that the body is that of 23-year-old Toyshia Ceara Snowden of Atmore, who was reported missing in August. Her…

Photo (Josh Frye): Investigators discussed the incident at the scene Friday morning. Update On Friday, January 8. 2021, at the request of Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, Special Agents with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) are investigating an officer?involved shooting on Friday, January 8, 2021 involving Poarch Tribal Police. One person was injured in the shooting and transported to a nearby medical facility for treatment. None…

In photo at top, smoke billows from a Beck Street home that caught fire early Saturday, January 2. City firefighters were dispatched at 7:31 a.m., arrived three minutes later, and spent nearly 90 minutes battling the blaze, which was blamed on an electrical short. The home was declared a total loss. In photo at below, AFD Chief Ron Peebles provides instruction as Firefighter Trent Peebles directs water onto a January…

Gloria Jones, Kenny Smith, Bobby Davis By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although West Escambia Utilities still has plenty of veteran employees, the local utility lost eight decades of experience last week when Bobby Davis and Gloria Marshall Jones each clocked in — and out — for the final time. Bobby, who has been with WEU for 43 years, and Gloria, who has worked there “only” 37 years, were honored…