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Each year, Rosa Parks’ legacy as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement is honored with a prayer breakfast on a date near her birth date. This year, Lillie Johnson and her group will host the event Saturday, February 10, 9 a.m., in the Greater Mount Triumph Missionary Baptist Church fellowship hall. Everyone age 15 and older is invited to attend. The keynote speaker for this year’s breakfast is Tuskegee…

Escambia County High School has for the second straight year been listed by state education officials as a failing school and has been given an “F” in the initial year of using a letter grade to assess the success or failure of individual schools. But the county system’s top administrator said last week he has no confidence in the method used in computing the letter grade, a method he said…

A local man is considered the primary instigator of a recent two-inmate assault that left a county jailer with several serious injuries and was the second incident in just over four weeks involving an inmate from Atmore who physically tested the authority of an officer at the crowded facility. Chief Deputy Mike Lambert of the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office reported January 19 that 23-year-old Tevin Watts, of a U.S. 31…

Emily Harp hit the ground running … and that’s how she likes it. The new Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce executive director’s first official day is Monday, January 29, but she was at her desk at the Chamber office on South Main last Thursday and Friday, January 18 and 19. She said she doesn’t believe in “dilly dallying” and it’s evident as she talks about her new job. Harp, who…

A Flomaton woman, the only adult among four people accused of using a social media site to send cryptic death threats to a Flomaton High School student in 2016, was ordered to serve five years on probation for her role in the much-publicized “Flomo Klown” incident. According to court documents, 23-year-old Makayla Smith entered a guilty plea to one count of making a terroristic threat. She had initially also been…