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An Atmore man who worked as a correctional officer is being held on $1.5 million bond on multiple charges of trying to smuggle drugs and cell phones into Holman Prison in Atmore. Daniel Jason Melvin, 38, 106 Short St., was arrested last week and charged with trafficking methamphetamine, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of marijuana I, attempting to commit a controlled substance crime, attempting to promote prison contraband I and an ethics violation charging...
Flomaton native Dr. Anna Lee took her seat at Flomaton Town Council Monday afternoon after the council voted unanimously to appoint her to the vacant District 3 position. The District 3 seat became vacant when the council appointed Jim Johnson as mayor to fill out the unexpired term of Dewey Bondurant, Jr. At the last council meeting, the council declared the District 3 seat vacant. During Monday afternoon's town council meeting Mayor Johnson recommended that Dr. Lee fill his old District 3...
Residents of the Jay area and Santa Rosa County mourn over the loss of Jay native Terrell Wayne Godwin, who died Tuesday afternoon at the age of 87, following a brief illness. Godwin served as District 3 County Commissioner when he was elected in 1968 and served three terms, until 1980. He was a cotton, soybean and peanut farmer throughout his life, and as a teenager operated the first cotton picker in Santa Rosa County in 1951. Jay resident Frank Rowell, who served as county commissioner with...
Former Century Blackcat players for Melvin 'Buck' Powell gathered Saturday to pay tribute to the man they said not only instilled Blackcat Pride in them, but helped mold them into citizens long after their football career ended. Bubba Hammac said Tony Simpson, Tony Brown and Doodle Langhorne, who all played for Powell at Century in Powell's last year in 1975, said they got together and decided they needed to do something to honor their old coach. "We needed to do something for Coach Powell to...
A Walnut Hill woman who was arrested in April on multiple felony counts accused of stealing more than $16,000 from the Northwest Escambia Bradberry Park's had those charges dropped in Florida due to jurisdictional issues, but has now been arrested in Escambia County, Ala., on nine counts of possession of a forged instrument, theft by deceit I and theft by deception II. Paula Star Pugh, 48, 3800 Lambert Ridge Road, Walnut Hill, turned herself in to the Escambia County Detention Center Tuesday. Sh...
