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Residence hit by gun fire By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police are investigating an August 24 incident during which a person was wounded when someone fired several gunshots into a Brooks Lane residence.Atmore Police Department Sgt. Darrell McMann reported that officers were sent to the 100 block of Brooks Lane around 8:55 p.m. after dispatchers relayed a report of shots fired.Officers discovered a residence had been hit by gunfire,…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education followed up a stormy workshop with a calm regular meeting, during which the board quietly approved total expenditures of more than half-a-million dollars, most of it for math and reading improvement programs for Special Education teachers and students with special needs. The biggest purchase was of Read180 and Math180 intervention and academic acceleration programs from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education’s workshop, held last Thursday (August 24) prior to the board’s regular monthly meeting, went smoothly for about an hour. Then it hit a rough patch, and another rough patch, and another.The only item on the workshop agenda was a self-evaluation by Superintendent of Education Michele McClung of her performance during the almost two years she has held the job.“This…

Police say faulty gun conversion switch led to July 25 slaying on Brooks Lane Pettaway By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police revealed this week that the July 25 shooting death of a 22-year-old Atmore man was the result of an argument over a reportedly faulty part the suspect sold the victim that allows conversion of a semi-automatic handgun to fully automatic.Antonio LeMarcus Pettaway II, 19, of Mobile, is accused…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said this week APD investigators are taking their time, trying to make sure all the “i’s” are dotted, and the “t’s” crossed before securing murder warrants in the beating death of Kenneth Harrison.The 45-year-old Baldwin County man struck and killed 24-year-old Poarch resident Hannah Martin August 5 with his car as she crossed U.S. 31 outside The Tavern of Atmore.…