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With the Alabama Legislature set to go into session March 7 most people expect State Sen. Greg Albritton to introduce a gaming bill to allow the voters to decide whether or not they want to legalize casino-type gaming and a lottery in the state. Over the past several years Sen. Albritton has introduced gaming legislation only to see the efforts die in the House of Representatives. “I’ve been the author of very few and a proponent of most,” Sen. Albritton said this week. However, he’s not opt...
A Flomaton man was arrested Tuesday on three felony counts of willful abuse of a child following an investigation that began in Florida. Anthony Williams, 56, was arrested by Flomaton police and transported to the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton. Williams was scheduled to appear before Escambia County District Judge Eric Coale for a bond hearing Wednesday afternoon. Flomaton Police Chief Johnny Wilson said his department received a child abuse complaint from the Department of Human...
The East Brewton Police Department is asking the public for help in locating Jason Earl Wright, who is accused of stealing a pickup truck Tuesday morning and trying to use a stolen credit card at a store McDavid. Police Chief Kenny Brazille said the victim pulled his red 1993 Chevrolet pickup truck to a gas pump at the Circle K in East Brewton about 7:20 a.m. Tuesday. The victim went inside the store to pay and Wright alledgely entered the vehicle and left. Brazille said the pickup truck, with...
The town of Flomaton will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, at town hall for the public to give input into a proposed plan for the town to relinquish its lease on Hurricane Park back to the Escambia County School System, which will then make the school board responsible for all improvements and maintenance. On Aug. 27, 1985 the school board and the Flomaton Town Council agreed on a 99-year lease for the school-owned property. The agreement was signed by Mayor Frank Davis and Supe...
Members of Jay High School's 1963 boys basketball team will be honored Friday, Jan. 27, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the team that made it to Florida's Final Four. The celebration will be held between Jay's junior varsity and varsity games Friday in the John Clarence Smith Gymnasium' which was named in honor of the long-time and 1963 coach of the Royals, Clarence Smith. The junior varsity game tips off at 5:30 p.m. and should last less than an hour. Smith coached the 1963 team to a 27-7...
The dispatcher hit the tone Saturday afternoon reaching out to Lambeth Fire Department volunteer Amy Jo Lambeth. After two attempts and no response the 10-7 'out of service' code was announced. "Rest in peace" is how the call ended. The call was made as friends, family and the brotherhood of firefighters gathered at Petty-Eastside Chapel for the funeral of a 24-year veteran of the Lambeth Volunteer Fire Department. Lambeth, 43, died Jan. 16 in Pensacola following a battle with cancer. Those who...
A Flomaton woman was arrested on felony charges Friday after she went onto the campus of Flomaton Elementary School threatening to kill students and teachers but was quickly taken into custody by the school's resource officer. Lynda Ann Thompson, 40, 920 Titi St., was charged with making a terrorist threat and disorderly conduct. She remains in the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton. According to Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson, Thompson was outside the lunchroom at the school whe...
A 2012 Flomaton High School graduate remained in Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola after being shot while deer hunting Saturday morning near Wolf Log Road. Austin Patterson was apparently hit by three buckshot pellets while hunting with his brother-in-law Jared Hinote. Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson said the two were near each other when they heard the dogs coming. "Austin ran down the road and the deer passed between the two when Hinote shot," Jackson said. "He then heard Austin scream...
Charges continue to mount against a Century man arrested on Jan. 10 in Atmore for two counts of attempted assault I, two counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling and two counts of reckless endangerment. Emonee De'Montae Long, 20, 2262 East Sunset Drive, is also facing a rape charge from an incident in 2020 with Atmore police officers saying he wasn't arrested at the time of the rape charge due to his alleged involvement with a murder in Century at the same time. The rape II...
Less than a week after Escambia County (Ala.) Engineer Bill Bridges was placed on paid administrative leave, the county commission voted 3-2 Monday to fire him from the position he's held the past 25 years. Commissioner Brandon Smith made the motion to terminate Bridges' job as county engineer and Commissioner Larry White issued the second. On the roll-call vote Smith, White and Chairman Raymond Wiggins voted to fire Bridges. Commissioners Steven Dickey and Karean Reynolds voted no. After the...
Shannon Dean Barlow and his brother Franklin Lee Barlow, Jr., will at least spend the next five years behind bars after the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles denied the two convicted murderers parole Wednesday morning. Shannon Barlow and Franklin Barlow both pleaded guilty in October, 1993, for the murder of their stepmother Kathy Victory Hall Barlow and their 12-year old stepsister Angel Marie Hall. The two were sentenced to consecutive life sentences with the possibility of parole. A third...
The Escambia County (Ala.) Commission passed a resolution Monday asking its legislative delegation to pass a local bill to give the county the authority to pay the sheriff to operate the animal control shelter and pound with Commissioner Karean Reynolds casting the lone no vote. Under Alabama law, the county is required to operate an animal shelter. The county has reached an agreement to operate and staff the shelter previously occupied by the city of Brewton on Highway 31 near Nordmeyer...
Following an administrative workshop Tuesday afternoon by the Escambia County (Ala.) Commission, County Engineer Bill Bridges was placed on paid administrative leave and position of a county engineer will be on the agenda for Monday’s county commission meeting. Commission Chairman Raymond Wiggins confirmed that Bridges had been placed on paid leave as of Tuesday afternoon. Wiggins said the commission will consider the employment of an engineer at its meeting set for 9 a.m. Monday at the Escambia...
Ken Taylor is being remembered as a person who dedicated his life to helping others not only as a public servant for the residents of Escambia County (Ala.), but to all who knew him. Taylor, 73, the long-serving clerk-administrator for the county commission and circuit clerk of the county died Wednesday, Dec. 28 in Birmingham. Taylor moved to Brewton in 1971 to serve as chief clerk in the circuit clerk's office under his uncle James Taylor. He served as the county clerk-administrator from 1973...
A 21-year old Atmore woman, who recently moved to the area from Georgia, was killed in a single-vehicle vehicle crash early Friday morning after her 2015 Ford Fusion left Highway 31 and slammed into the side of Flomaton High School. Shaneal Schifano was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash that occurred about 12 a.m. on Dec. 23, according to the Flomaton Police Department. A 911 call reporting the crash came in to the Flomaton Police Department's dispatch at 12:04 a.m. The vehicle was...
Beginning Jan. 1 residents in Alabama will no longer be required to have a permit to carry a concealed weapon with the state joining 21 others that no longer require permits or background checks. The bill, passed earlier this year by the Alabama Legislature and signed by Gov. Kay Ivey, was opposed by the Alabama Sheriff's Association. Until now, Alabama residents were required to go to their respective sheriff's office and purchase a pistol permit to carry a concealed weapon. The cost was $20...
A 2022 graduate of Flomaton High School was arrested Friday, Dec. 16 on warrants served by the Atmore Police Department charging the 18-year old with felony counts of sodomy I and sexual abuse I. Trace J. (Jaxon) Singleton was booked into the Escambia County Detention Center at 2:10 p.m. Dec. 16. Charges listed on the jail log stated 'with a girl – strong arm sexual contact – compulsion'. All records pertaining to Singleton's arrest were sealed and moved to juvenile court due to him being und...
Due to Dec. 31 falling on a Saturday and Monday, Jan. 2 being observed at the New Year's holiday, Tuesday, Jan. 3, is the deadline to pay property taxes in Escambia County (Ala.) to avoid penalties and interest. Tax Collector Tim Pettis said as of Tuesday, about $11.4 million in ad valorem taxes of the $19.5 billed had been collected. He noted his office had a lot of mail to process Tuesday and also noted some of the biggest accounts normally come in on the last day. "We're about on track of...
The mother of a Century man who was shot to death last Thursday in Frisco City is seeking answers and says Frisco City nor Monroe County law enforcement officials have reached out to her and that she has yet to see her son's body. Cynthia Franklin said she had to reach out to the Escambia County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office to verify that her son Lavor Chante Johnson, 43, had been shot to death. The shooting last Thursday left on man dead and another seriously wounded as police continue to...
Christmas will be here Sunday, but Winter Storm Elliott is expected to arrive late Thursday or Friday possibly sending temperatures into single digits with windchill factors below zero. Escambia County (Ala.) Emergency Management Director David Adams said the national weather forecasts call for temperatures of 10 to 20 degrees. Temperatures Friday could stay near or below freezing all day. Adams noted that once temperatures drop Thursday and Friday they will likely stay near the freezing mark...
Flomaton schools, along with other schools across the state of Alabama and the nation, were put under lockdown Tuesday morning after receiving calls that an active shooter was on the individual campuses. No active shooters were located, but law enforcement officers in all areas responded. Flomaton Police Chief Johnny Wilson said a call came into the landline at the police department at 11:31 a.m. with the caller claiming to be a teacher saying there was an active shooter at the high school....
Employees with the town of Flomaton will get a Christmas bonus of sorts after the town council voted Tuesday afternoon to give all employees a $400 one-time step raise. Mayor Pro tem Jim Johnson, chairing Monday’s meeting due to Mayor Dewey Bondurant’s absence, noted the council was able to give employees $300 last year and the recommendation was to give them $400 this year. Johnson noted money would come out of the town’s General Fund. The council voted unanimously to give the raise. The counc...
Raymond Wiggins was elected to serve another year as chairman of the Escambia County Commission and the board also elected Larry White to serve as vice chairman during Monday's county commission meeting. The five-member county commission is elected by districts on staggered years. The five commissioners then elect the chairman and vice chairman. Commissioner White nominated Wiggins to serve as chairman and received a second from Brandon Smith. The motion carried unanimously. Commissioner Smith...
Just prior to seating a jury last Thursday for the capital murder trial of Jonathan Michael Taylor, Taylor pleaded guilty to murdering Cory Brian Moncrief on March 15, 2015. Under the plea agreement, Taylor, 30, pleaded guilty to murder and burglary and was sentenced by Circuit Judge Jack Weaver to life in prison for the murder and 10 years for the burglary. The two sentences will run concurrently and Taylor will be eligible for parole. Had Taylor been convicted of capital murder his two...
Former Flomaton Police Officer Issac Lopez pleaded guilty to felony ethics charges Monday in Escambia County (Ala.) Circuit Court and still faces felony charges of trafficking methamphetamine in Escambia County, Fla., and misdemeanor charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in Flomaton Municipal Court. Lopez was a Flomaton police officer when he was arrested in Pensacola on Dec. 7, 2020, for trafficking meth. He was immediately fired as a Flomaton police officer. Lopez was released...
