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Distracted driver
Disciplinary action pending after thrown batteries cause bus crash Firefighters examine injured students while police conduct the crash investigation. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Several Escambia County Middle School students suffered minor injuries, and at least one faces disciplinary action after a pack of batteries was thrown into the front of a county school bus Monday (April 17), distracting the driver and causing a minor crash.The mishap occurred around 3:20…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Who’s News?
By Atmore News Staff Raisin’ eyebrowsFormer Atmore News ad salesman and sportswriter Josh Frye is moving on up in his new career, as one of the most recent projects of which he was a part has raised some eyebrows in the movie industry. Josh was a production assistant on Jesus Revolution, a small-budget movie by Alabama-born Jon and Andrew Erwin that targets Christian audiences. The movie, shot in Mobile and…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Suspect killed by trooper still not ID’d; survivors held on fugitive warrants
Arnold Williams By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Alabama Law Enforcement Agency officials have still not released the identity of a suspect who was killed in an April 9 shootout with a state trooper at the end of a high-speed chase that carried into northern Escambia County.The trooper, Cpl. Jeremy Alford, was reportedly hit by two bullets but managed to fatally shoot the driver of a vehicle that refused to stop…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Witness intimidation charged
Johnson By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police have charged a local woman with coercing or trying to coerce several of the witnesses in a pending criminal court case.Atmore Police Department Sgt. Darrell McMann reported that police obtained arrest warrants for Mary Johnson, 35, after police detectives “became aware of threats made to multiple witnesses of an ongoing criminal case.”When informed of the charges against her, Johnson went to the…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Mobile man in custody for rape that occurred here
Coley By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police announced this week the April 11 arrest of a Mobile man who faces numerous felony charges in connection with a violent sexual assault that occurred here three days earlier.Atmore Police Department Sgt. Darrell McMann reported that APD’s on-call investigator was notified April 8 that a sexual assault victim — who reportedly had been attacked while in Atmore — was being treated for…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago