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“Hope and Light in the Darkness”
P.E.I.R. to host Overdose Awareness Day event in Atmore By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer People Engaged in Recovery (P.E.I.R.) first visited Atmore when Marlo Young organized a Mental Health Awareness event in May. The visit was so successful, the Mobile-based organization decided to hold its annual Overdose Awareness Day observance in the city.“We are so excited and honored that we will be able to host this event in Atmore this…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago
Execution date set
Grayson By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Gov. Kay Ivey has established the date and time window during which the execution of convicted killer Carey Dale Grayson will take place.According to a letter sent from the governor to Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm, the execution will take place during a 34-hour time frame that starts at midnight Thursday, November 21, and ends at 6 a.m. on Friday, November 22.Ivey…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago
No parole for Flomaton arsonist, Mobile murderer
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Flomaton man, convicted in 2019 of second-degree arson, and a convicted Mobile County murderer who apparently tried to kill another person while in an Escambia County correctional facility, were each denied parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles. May Donald Lamar May was sentenced to 20 years in prison on the arson conviction, details of which could not be…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago
Felony arrests
Expired driver’s license leads to discovery of stolen gun, Ecstasy, pot By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The following felony arrests were reported by Atmore Police Department (APD) officers during the period August 15-18:Q’watrell Ford Ford An Atmore man was arrested August 17 on felony weapons and drug charges after his vehicle was pulled over for failure to yield to another vehicle.The traffic stop was conducted at approximately 2:15 a.m. The…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago
The Inflation Reduction Act and Kamalanomics
Congressman Jerry Carl Two years ago, Vice President Kamala Harris was the deciding vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This bill is flooded with Far-Left policies and spending, which have only hurt Americans. The Biden-Harris Administration increased our national deficit significantly, recklessly spent taxpayer dollars through the redistribution of money from Medicare to woke, so-called green handouts, and drained the pockets of the American worker. Now more than…
by Submitted Article access_time1 year ago