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Tethered tank triggers emergency response
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police officers and firefighters were sent to the local Walmart shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday, August 15, after officials of the store reported that employees found what appeared at first to be some type of improvised explosive device.The concerns turned out to be unfounded, although police did find a propane tank tied with a heavy-duty plastic tie to a bush or small tree, in…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Inmate will apparently serve sentence
Oden By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A state inmate who was sentenced in 1998 to serve a 25-year sentence after his conviction for a robbery he committed as an inmate, is apparently going to go the distance and serve the entire prison term.Juandricus Jermaine Oden, 41, was denied parole by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles during a recent hearing, leaving Oden with about a year and four months…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Still no deal
BOE, McClung swap offers, counteroffers McClung By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education and superintendent-selectee Michele M. McClung have swapped offers and counter offers this week as negotiations continued to determine whether McClung would be the replacement for current Superintendent of Education John Knott, whose extended contract expires August 31.BOE Chair Cindy Jackson said she hoped that the board and McClung who has served as director…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Domestic dispute leads to drug arrests
Carter Bowman By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man and woman were arrested on felony drug charges last Thursday, August 5, after police responded to reports of an ongoing argument in the yard of an East Horner Street residence.The verbal combatants — Dewitt Champ Carter, 25, of Atmore, and Anna Leigh Bowman, 20, of Bay Minette — were arrested after police spotted unspecified quantities of Spice and methamphetamine in…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Felony drug incidents continue
McGhee Brooks By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said this week that his agency’s recent spate of felony drug arrests is not the result of some recently launched crackdown on those who buy, sell and possess substances controlled under law. Neither has it anything to do with cases that were made when the COVID-19 pandemic kept the county jail closed to non-violent criminals.“These are all current…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago