Flomaton Opens at Home Against Opp as Area Football Teams Set Friday’s Slate
The Hurricanes host Opp in their home opener, while W.S. Neal travels to Thomasville, Escambia County hosts Jackson and T.R. Miller sits out an open week.
Lower Alabama Drug Task Force Search Warrant on Maxwell Street Nets Cocaine Trafficking Charge
Kelvin Derell Owens, 51, faces trafficking cocaine and four other charges after an Aug. 26 search warrant in Atmore. He is held on $1 million bond in Brewton.
Flomaton Parents Now Face Attempted Murder Charges After 15-Year-Old Hospitalized in Critical Condition
Eric McClure, 41, and Cynthia Tedder, 36, were first charged with torture and willful abuse of a child. Prosecutors added attempted murder Wednesday. Other children in the home are now…
Atmore Man Charged With Attempted Murder After Shooting Into Occupied Vehicle on Brown Street
Larry Terrell Taylor, 46, faces attempted murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle charges after a Sept. 1 shooting that left a man with two gunshot wounds. An Aniah's Law…
Leroy Man Gets Six Months After Washington County Probation Revoked Over Atmore Assault Case
Robert Heath Walker, 53, was ordered to serve six months after a Washington County judge revoked his probation. The revocation followed his guilty plea in an Escambia County assault case…
Over 1,000 Native Plants Added to Fowl River Near Bellingrath in Restoration Project
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. — Volunteers and conservation workers planted more than 1,000 native plants along the banks of the Fowl River this week, part of a broader effort to rebuild…
ALEA Reports Lane Closure Cleared After Two-Vehicle Crash on Alabama 21 Near Atmore
All lanes have reopened on Alabama 21 near Atmore after a two-vehicle crash forced a lane closure on the highway, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. The agency’s Highway…
Mobile Man Sentenced to 60 Months for Fentanyl Trafficking in Federal Prosecution
A Mobile County man has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced. Horatio Tremaine Washington…
Unbearable Heat in Alabama Prisons: Humanitarian Crisis Demands Immediate Reform
‘Unbearable’ Heat in Uncooled Alabama Prisons: A Deepening Crisis as Summer Swelter Intensifies ELMORE — Tiffany Montellano lies awake at night, unable to sleep, consumed by worry for her husband…
Alabama to Borrow Nearly $200 Million for $900 Million Escambia County Prison Project
The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority approved borrowing up to $195 million for a new 4,000-bed prison in Escambia County, raising the project budget to $900 million.