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COVID-19 update
Only 23 new cases in county since Friday By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continued to decline over the past weekend, especially among Escambia County residents. Although the report issued at 9 a.m. Tuesday, September 15, by Escambia County Healthcare Authority showed that Alabama experienced 2,756 new cases since Friday, September 11, only 23 of the newly infected reside in Escambia County. The new…
by Don Fletcher
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B&E suspects arrested by PCI police
Dick Jordan Thompson By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Poarch Creek Tribal Police arrested three people — two men and a woman — on Labor Day (Monday, September 7) after reportedly catching them in the act of breaking into vehicles in the Poarch community, apparently in broad daylight, then having to hunt one of them down. Those arrested were Kenneth Daniel Dick, 38, and Jade Moore Jordan, 24, both of…
by Don Fletcher
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Attempted murder
1 arrest, another expected after duo fires into crowd in Atmore English By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore police continued at midday Tuesday their search for the second of two gunmen who jumped from a van and fired into a crowd, wounding one individual, last Friday afternoon (September 11). An Atmore man was arrested Saturday in connection with the shooting, which took place in the city’s northeastern sector around…
by Don Fletcher
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Peanut mill to bring 100-plus jobs
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Gov. Kay Ivey announced Tuesday, September 15, that a farmer-owned peanut processing facility with an estimated cost of $87 million and a promise of at least 100 jobs has chosen Atmore Industrial Park as its home. The governor said in a press release that Coastal Growers LLC plans to build a peanut shelling plant in Atmore, a move that will make the city “a…
by Don Fletcher
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Slow-moving Hurricane Sally
Family members of all ages helped fill sandbags Monday By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Residents of Atmore and the surrounding area continued Tuesday to prepare for the brunt of Hurricane Sally, which was expected to make landfall early Wednesday and swing northeastward across Alabama. The storm, which has vacillated between a Category 2 and Category 1 hurricane as it has plodded through the Gulf of Mexico, was moving at…
by Don Fletcher
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