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New school record
Rabb scores 94 points during week; Bulldogs improve to 14-2 By JOSH FRYE News Sportswriter Kedarieon (K.D.) Rabb scored 94 combined points, setting a new school record for points in a week, as J.U. Blacksher continued to roll. Despite a loss to W.S. Neal, the Bulldogs improved to a 14-2. Rabb and Company first squared off against Neal January 6, dropping just short, 57-52. Rabb scored 28 points during that…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
With Soleimani dead, the world is safer
You may not have known his name, but the most dangerous man in the Middle East has finally received justice for a lifetime of brutality. Before being taken out by an American airstrike, Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was a Major General in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and commander of its extra-military, clandestine Quds Force. He left his stain on this world by organizing, training and leading terrorist groups across…
by Submitted Article access_time6 years ago
Woman uninjured in collision with horse
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An Atmore woman escaped injury when her car slammed into a wayward horse that wandered onto a Florida highway shortly before sunrise, January 8. According to Florida Highway Patrol reports, 50-year-old Katie Dailey of Atmore was traveling northward in her 2012 Dodge Avenger around 6 a.m. when the horse “was traveling west across U.S. 29, north of Duxbury Avenue,” near Molino, Fla. Reports show…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Total loss
Atmore firefighters check for hot spots inside a Brazzell Hill Road mobile home that was destroyed by fire Wednesday, January 8. Atmore Fire Department reports label the cause as “unknown,” but note that a space heater and a stove were being used to heat the home. Firefighters were dispatched at 2:01 p.m., arrived at the rural site seven minutes later, and were on the scene for just over an hour.…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Local group lobbies for ‘super prison’
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A contingent of five local and area officials carried high hopes but a low degree of certainty into a January 3 meeting with Gov. Kay Ivey’s Chief of Staff Jo Bonner and other senior staff members on the possibility that one of the state’s three proposed “super prisons” would be located just outside Atmore. They left the meeting as uncertain as they had arrived,…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago