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Escambia County (Ala.) School Board Members Sherry Digmon and Cindy Jackson, along with Atmore News reporter Don Fletcher and school system employee and payroll supervisor Ashley Fore filed a lawsuit last Friday in federal court accusing District Attorney Steve Billy, Sheriff Heath Jackson and four deputy sheriffs of violating their constitutional rights. The four are seeking compensatory and punitive damages in an amount in excess of $75,000 each, plus attorneys’ fees, “as well as any oth...
Atmore police made four traffic stops that led to drug arrests and another drug arrest was made as officers found drugs while making contact with an individual who had an outstanding misdemeanor warrant. On Nov. 16, Atmore police initiated a traffic stop on Rockaway Creek Road on a vehicle with an expired tag that led to the passenger being arrested for possessing methamphetamine, synthetic marijuana (spice), marijuana and items used to ingest narcotics. The passenger, identified as Calvin...
A state trooper stop on Interstate 65 in Escambia County, Ala., led to the arrest of two Louisiana men on multiple drug charges including trafficking and one suspect, who was identified as a convicted felon, was also charged with for unlawfully possessing a firearm. Markell Ariana Ross, 25, of Marrero, La., and Alvin Tyrone Butcher III, 25, of Gretna, La., were both charged with two counts of drug trafficking, two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession...
The Grinch was in Brewton Thursday night for the chamber of commerce's annual Holiday Kickoff to bring people to town to help local businesses as the holiday season begins....
Although snow is scarce, adults and kids alike got to 'ice' skate Monday and Tuesday at the Linda Carden Community Center on Booker Lane in Jay....
Class 3A's No. 1 ranked T.R. Miller Tigers saw their season come to an end with a late touchdown by Houston Academy 17-14 ending Miller's season and eliminating all teams in the tri-city area from the playoffs....
At it’s Nov. 19 meeting, the Century Town Council approved a request to award Talcon Group the contract to complete phase II lift station project of miscellaneous wastewater improvements at the town’s wastewater facility, with the town supplying $200,000 from Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) funds. Municipal Engineering’s Dale Long told the council when the base bids to complete the project came, both were way over budget. “One bid was $7.6 million and the high bidder was $12.2 million, and we have...
INTRODUCTION 1. A local political dispute over whether to retain a school superintendent ended with two school-board members, the school’s payroll supervisor, and a local journalist in jail. None of them committed any crimes. But that didn’t stop Escambia County’s top law-enforcement officials from abusing their offices to punish anyone they thought stood in the way of extending the superintendent’s contract. 2. District Attorney Stephen Billy and Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson both took an unusual personal interest in School Superin...
