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Billy News Staff Report Steve Billy, District Attorney for Alabama’s 21st Judicial Circuit (Escambia County), announced last week that he will retire at the end of this year from the position he has held for the past 20 years.The 67-year-old DA has reportedly filed paperwork notifying Gov. Kay Ivey of his intentions. The governor is accepting applications already and will choose a successor for Billy from among the applicants who…

Attempted murder charge filed Williams By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A 23-year-old Atmore man was arrested Monday (September 30) and charged with the late Saturday shooting of another man in the parking lot of a local convenience store.Atmore Police Department investigators were able to obtain positive identification that Edward La’Marlon Jaheim Williams was the man who did the shooting. APD officers took Williams into custody at 1:35 p.m. Monday at…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Escambia County Healthcare Authority (ECHCA) Chair Debbie Rowell confirmed this week that the struggling healthcare authority has begun searching for the third time since 2016 for a new administrator to take over the top administrative duties at Atmore Community Hospital. The search was necessitated by the recent resignation of Brad Lowery, a 2010 Northview High School graduate who had been in charge of hospital…

Escambia Academy celebrated homecoming festivities Friday, September 27. Ana Chesley Robinson was crowned 2024 Homecoming Queen. She was crowned by 2023 Homecoming Queen Tava Johnson.

Atmore and Poarch firefighters battle the destructive blaze By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore Fire Department Chief Ron Peebles said last week that investigators had not yet determined just what caused a September 24 housefire that consumed a Fennell Street residence.“We’re labeling it as undetermined right now,” Peebles said of the blaze that destroyed the house, a wood frame structure that had no electricity service but indications that people were…