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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_time6 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_time6 months ago
6 children, 2 adults critical after pickup rollover
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Eight Walnut Hill residents, including six children ranging in age from 3 to 14 years, were critically injured Sunday, July 7, when the driver of a pickup on the back of which the youngsters were riding, lost control of the vehicle, causing it to run off the road, roll over and sling the children from the truck bed.According to Florida Highway Patrol reports, the wreck…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 months ago
Rabid fox
Atmore woman bitten and treated News Staff Report Alabama Department of Public Health officials announced this week that an unidentified older Atmore woman was unloading her vehicle after returning from a recent grocery shopping trip when, seemingly from out of nowhere, she was attacked and bitten by a fox that officials later confirmed was rabid.The fox was taken to the Alabama Department of Public Health Bureau of Clinical Laboratories where…
by Atmore News access_time7 months ago
My story, part 4
Digmon This week, I continue the timeline started in last week’s Atmore News. 2023October 23I was staying with Myrna in Atmore Community Hospital as she was recovering from a broken leg.I got a call on my cell phone from Escambia County Deputy Artur Odom. I’ve known Arthur for decades. I knew him when he was with the Atmore Police Department, then with various other law enforcement agencies. I didn’t take…
by Sherry Digmon access_time7 months ago