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Also visits local pharmacy By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer With over-regulation, soaring operational costs and a federal reimbursement index that works against them, rural hospitals are fast becoming an endangered species. U.S. Congressman Bradley Byrne was in Atmore Tuesday, May 29, where he discussed some of the challenges facing small-town medical centers during a private briefing with state hospital officials and local leaders at Atmore Community Hospital. The update…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore’s Walmart, which has operated 24 hours a day since it opened here in June of 2014, will no longer be an all-day, all-night shopping option, starting this Saturday, June 2. According to signs posted at the local retail giant’s entrance and exit, Walmart-Atmore will close at 1 a.m. Saturday morning and will remain closed until 6 a.m., when shoppers will be allowed back…

News Staff Report An Atmore teen who fired several shots into a crowd of his Escambia County High School classmates – not on the school campus – and left one paralyzed in February, is back behind bars after he repeatedly violated one of the major provisions of his bond. According to court documents and published reports, on May 10 Escambia County Circuit Court Judge Bert Rice revoked the $100,000 bond…