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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 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 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 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…