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SCV camp, Canoe community working to replace historic marker
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Members of the Canoe community and members of William Carney Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans are working to replace the marker that relates the basics of the tiny hamlet’s history.The original marker, erected in 2007 at the intersection of U.S. 31 and Baker Street, was recently torn from its framing when a local man, riding a Utility Terrain Vehicle (side-by-side), clipped it and ripped…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 months ago
Atmore woman injured in fatal July 4 crash
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore woman was seriously injured July 4 when she became the third vehicle involved in a three-vehicle crash near Pollard that claimed the life of a Missouri man.Alabama State Troopers reports show the fatal collision occurred around 4:17 p.m. on U.S. 31, near Old U.S. 31, approximately six miles south of Brewton.Troopers reported that a 2017 Jeep Liberty, driven by Shirley A. Moore, 60,…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 months ago
Felony arrests
Tribal police nab Birmingham man on drug trafficking charge By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Steen Poarch Creek police arrested a Birmingham man June 25 on numerous charges, including drug trafficking.No details were available, but the Escambia County Detention Center website shows that 54-year-old Darryl Steen was booked into the facility on two felony and two misdemeanor drug charges, as well as a weapons charge.He remained in the county lockup early…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 months ago
Gavin execution scheduled for next week
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Alabama death row inmate Keith Edmund Gavin, sentenced to death in 1999 for the 1998 murder of a Cherokee County delivery courier, is scheduled to die by lethal injection next week at William C. Holman Correctional Facility outside Atmore.Gavin’s execution, which will be the state’s third this year, is scheduled to take place “between midnight Wednesday, July 17, and 6 a.m. Friday, July 19,” according…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 months ago
No parole for Brewton men
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Two Brewton men — one a convicted sex offender, the other a convicted robber — were each denied parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles.Samuel Weaver Jr. Weaver Samuel Weaver Jr., 58, who served a 15-year sentence after being convicted of first-degree sodomy in Covington County before being paroled in 2001, was sent back to prison for 20 more years…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 months ago