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The Escambia County Commission approved two memorandums of understanding with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians concerning road work in the Poarch area. One is for the county to provide in-kind services for the resurfacing of roads in the area while Poarch would pay for the actual paving. The second allows Poarch to grade county-owned dirt roads in the area after giving the county notice. County Clerk-Administrator Tony Sanks said the county's road department has a schedule of when dirt roads...
Flomaton police made 301 contacts during its recent Click-It-Or-Ticket campaign that resulted in 191 citations issued and 16 arrests made. Police Chief Bryan Davis said the campaign ran from May 21 through June 3. The police department received grant funds to pay overtime to officers to work traffic. The following citations were issued: Seatbelt violation, 46; child restraint violation 1; speeding, 31; insurance violation, 17; driver's license violation, 9, suspended/revoked driver's license,...
I would hope that the people of this country would like for us to have fair elections where those eligible to vote are the ones who go to the polls and cast ballots. That might be a dream since the majority of the people in this country could care less who represents us from city hall to the White House. God only knows how much (tax) money we've spent trying to determine whether or not the Russians influenced our last presidential election. I guess we did that to make sure our elections were...
Atmore resident Karean Reynolds will take a seat at the Escambia County Commission table and Atmore native Lyn Stuart will be leaving the Alabama Supreme Court following Tuesday's primary elections that set up a November showdown between Republican Gov. Kay Ivey and Democrat Walt Maddox. In the only local race on the Escambia County ballot, Reynolds defeated incumbent District 5 Commissioner David Quarker 572 to 252. Reynolds received 69.42 percent of the vote. Reynolds will take his seat on the...
Graduation in May had a special meaning for a Jay family that saw the father graduate from Pensacola State College, the daughter graduate from Troy University and the son graduate from Jay High School in the same month. Alton Flowers graduated May 6 Summa Cum Laude with a business degree from PSC; his daughter, Kayla Flowers, graduated May 11 Summa Cum Laude from Troy with a degree in Bio Medical Science; his son, Jackson Flowers, was no. 6 in 2018 graduating class at Jay on May 29. Alton...
Over the past few months, the East Brewton Police Department has arrested multiple people on drug charges with the majority going to jail for possessing methamphetamine. “It's the drug of choice,” said East Brewton Police Chief Kenny Brazille. “We're working every day to keep it off the streets. We've got two K-9s here that are doing an awesome job.” Like other law enforcement officials, Brazille said meth has become an epidemic. He said officers don't find any of the old 'shake and bake' homema...
An investigation continues in a Saturday crash where a Flomaton woman was traveling south in the northbound lane of Highway 31 before crashing into a guardrail. Jaumelle Avain Ward, 25, was transported from the scene by ambulance to D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital in Brewton with minor injuries. According to police reports, Ward was driving south in the northbound lane in a 2015 Ford Fiesta about 12 noon when the crash occurred. The report noted the vehicle was totaled. Witnesses said they...
With unofficial returns from Tuesday, Atmore native Lyn Stuart lost her bid for chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court to Tom Parker by 15,652 votes and 19,917 registered Escambia County voters didn't cast a ballot. Go Figure. It gets worse when you look at the numbers across the state of Alabama. According to information released by the secretary of state's office, 2,480,406 registered voters in Alabama didn't vote. Those figures show Escambia County had a 20.59 percent voter turnout and...
A woman charged with theft of services and failure to pay now faces drug charges after Flomaton police found a pipe containing methamphetamine inside her home. Shanna Nelson, 32, 2328 Cary St., Flomaton, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. Another resident in the home, Nakita Barton, 38, was also charged on identical drug charges. Flomaton Police Detective Chance Thompson went to Nelson's residence Tuesday afternoon to...
A suspect who fled from a moving vehicle was later arrested and the driver of the vehicle was arrested on drug charges following the traffic stop on Old Fannie Road. Flomaton Police Chief Bryan Davis was on patrol at 6:36 p.m. on June 1 when he observed a Nissan Sentra with an obstructed front windshield. After activating his emergency lights, Davis reported the vehicle continued for about three-fourths of a mile and then began slowing down. With the vehicle still moving, a passenger in the...
A Flomaton man originally ticketed on May 21 for reckless driving and driving without a license was arrested again Tuesday and charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle after Flomaton police discovered the four-wheeler he was driving on May 21 had been reported missing from Flomaton Speedway. Christopher Bingham, 23, 239 Rickey St., was also on probation at the time of his arrest Tuesday and a petition to violate his probation was issued. Flomaton Police Sgt. William Mosely was working...
A Brewton man is facing drug possession charges and a charge of trafficking crystal methamphetamine after Escambia County (Ala.) sheriff's deputies conducted a check on a vehicle parked in the parking lot of Rock Hill Assembly of God Church on Ridge Road about 11 p.m. Tuesday. Darren LeMare Green, 49, was charged with three counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and trafficking meth. His bond had not been set as of press time Wednesday. According the sheriff's office reports,...
Escambia County's two Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, Sgt. William Wayne Seay of Brewton, and Corporal Sidney Manning of Flomaton, will have portions of U.S. Highway 31 between Flomaton and Atmore named in their honor following a joint resolution passed by the Alabama Legislature. Retired Marine Col. Charles Jackson read the resolutions, sponsored by State Rep. Alan Baker and State Sen. Greg Albrittion, during Monday's Memorial Day ceremony on the lawn of the Escambia County Courthouse...
A Flomaton man pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt and having a switched tag on his vehicle now sits in the Escambia County Detention Center on $15,000 after being arrested on multiple traffic and drug charges. Travis Lee Salter, 29, 445 Old Fannie Road, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance for methamphetamine and ecstasy, unlawful possession of marijuana II, unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, no seatbelt, switched tag, no insurance, driving while license...
Escambia County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Mike Lambert said the sheriff's office and other law enforcement agencies are working every day to combat the growing methamphetamine epidemic. "Seems like we're making arrests every day," Lambert said. "But under the new sentencing guidelines most of these people are right back on the streets." Lambert said deputies are not seeing many of the old meth labs since laws enacted to make it more difficult to obtain the chemicals have drastically...
Poll workers in Escambia County (Ala.) will receive an extra $25 per day for the 2018 election cycle beginning with the June 5 primary elections following a vote Tuesday by the county commission. Poll workers currently make the state minimum of $100 per day with the inspector receiving $125. Earlier this month, Roger Willamson appeared before the commission seeking a $50 across-the-board raise for the 150 poll workers who work on election day. Williamson noted that while the polls are only open...
An Atmore woman turned herself in at the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton Tuesday after a grand jury indicted her on two counts of willful abuse of a child, assault I and tampering with evidence. Katherine Rene Scott, 41, 4174 Still Farm Road, was released on $200,000 bond shortly after turning herself in at the jail. The investigation that led to the grand jury indictments was led by the Department of Human Resources and the Alabama Bureau of Investigation. No other details were...
I talked with Escambia County Circuit Clerk John Robert Fountain this week and he told me he had to send back 15 absentee voter applications Friday because those requesting a ballot filled out everything except whether they wanted to vote in the Republican Primary on June 5 or the Democratic Primary on June 5. When I talked with him last week he had already sent back three due to the same reason. Sometimes I think I'm trying to beat a dead horse to death, but I'm going to keep beating it in...
Kimberly Kelley, already charged with six counts of rape II, has now been charged with human trafficking II along with a Brewton woman and a Castleberry man for allegedly arranging for adult males to have sex with her underage daughters. Kelley, 46, 210 Ball Lane, Lot 32, East Brewton, Brittany Shaddix, 27, 104 Avalon St., Brewton, and Claude Thomas Jr., 40, Wille Wiley Senior Circle, Castleberry, have all be charged with human trafficking II on warrants obtained by the East Brewton Police Depar...
Escambia County (Ala.) Circuit Judge Bert Rice sentenced Devonta Deshawn Rollins to the maximum of 20 years in prison after the Atmore resident entered a blind plea of guilty to manslaughter in the shooting death of Kenneth Harris, Jr. Rollins, 22, 159 East Ashley St., Atmore, was arrested in April, 2016, and charged with murder for the shooting death of Harris. Harris was 18 when Flomaton police found his body inside 58 Lender St., in Flomaton on April 19, 2016. He had been shot once in the...
Escambia County (Ala.) Tax Collector Tim Pettis auctioned off 176 parcels of land last Thursday during the delinquent tax sale that generated $127,759.84 in revenue. Pettis said three parcels did not sell at the sale and they are automatically purchased by the state of Alabama. "The sale went well," Pettis said. "I was a little discouraged that we had so many parcels left to sell, but we've tried to reach out to people to tell them the taxes were due." Property taxes were due Oct. 1 and become d...
The Flomaton Medical Center and D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital announces the addition of a new physician to the Flomaton medical community. Krista Silverman, D.O. will begin her practice as a member of the Flomaton Medical Center in June of 2018. “Dr. Silverman is a great addition to the area’s medical community,” said Mike Myrick, medical clinic manager for the Flomaton Medical Center. “We are excited that Dr. Silverman has decided to practice in Flomaton.” Dr. Silverman joins the Flomaton Med...
Thursday, May 31, is the deadline for Alabama voters to apply for an absentee ballot for the June 5 Republican and Democratic primary elections. Escambia County Circuit Clerk John Robert Fountain said absentee ballots must be returned to his office by June 4. Absentee ballots mailed will be accepted if postmarked June 4 or before. As of Tuesday, Fountain said he had given out 25 absentee ballot applications and 12 ballots have been returned. He noted he had to send three applications back...
Cookouts, baseball games and trips to the beach are expected to be soggy this Memorial Day weekend as meteorologists keep an eye on a low pressure system entering the Gulf of Mexico that may dump significant rain on the Florida panhandle and across the southeastern United States. As of Wednesday morning the National Hurricane Center had the storm labeled as 'Invest 90L', which means the center is investigating and watching the low pressure system. Escambia County Emergency Management Director...
A W.S. Neal High School senior and a W.S. Neal Elementary School special education teacher have been arrested on felony computer tampering charges in wake of an investigation about grade changes that still leaves questions as to whether a valedictorian, salutatorian or Top 10 will be named prior to Neal's May 22 graduation. Matthew Keith Hutchins, 18, 420 Travis Road, Brewton, and Lisa Carolyn Odom 58, 1204 Merritt Road, Castleberry, were both arrested by agents with the Alabama Attorney...
