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An 18-year-old student at Hillcrest High School died last Thursday night after an altercation with another man left him with multiple stab wounds. The Evergreen Police Department received a call at 7:29 p.m. of a man who had been stabbed beside the road on Highway 83 North. Officers arrived and found Robert Lamar Baldwin, 18, unresponsive with multiple stab wounds. Baldwin was transported by Conecuh EMS to Evergreen Medical Center where he died from his wounds later that night. The Evergreen...
The Escambia County (Ala.) Commission will vote on resolutions at its next meeting to re-elect Raymond Wiggins and chairman and Larry White as vice chairman, following a vote Monday. County Clerk-Administrator Ron Cink said the commission needed to consider the resolutions Monday and vote on them at the next meeting. The items on the agenda had Wiggins’ and White’s name included. Karean Reynolds said he had no problem with Wiggins and White continuing the serve in those positions but felt the...
Elijah Bell, president of the Moore Creek-Mt. Carmel water system said a bill proposed by State Sen. Doug Broxson to bring all water systems in Santa Rosa County under one umbrella will not only take local control away from communities, but eventually lead to higher utility rates. "They are trying to fix something that's not broke," Bell said. "All these systems are financially sound and provide adequate and good water to their customers." Bell said currently, the rural water system board...
An Atmore man out on bond on a 2019 theft of property I by deception charge was arrested Monday on theft of property I charges and had his original bond revoked, leaving him behind bars inside the Escambia County Detention Center. Christopher Michael Rowland, 39, 500 South Pensacola Ave., was arrested by officers with the Atmore Police Department and transported to the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton. At the time of his arrest he was out on $25,000 bond on the 2019 charge. According...
Last Thursday, the town of Century experienced a water leak when a water main running along Highway 29 broke right at the entrance to town hall, causing the library to close and canceling Santa's 5:30 p.m. scheduled visit. Town workers shut the water line off and brought in a pump to empty the hole in order to repair the main. The break happened when Escambia River Electric Co-operative (EREC) was installing broadband internet cable and hit a telephone pole that had been cut off, which shifted...
