Atmore News

June 25 - When people play the Florida Lotto, they are thinking about the money.

June 24 - An Escambia County man's junk is getting him in trouble. Escambia County officials say George Roberson, who lives on Highway 31 near Atmore, was issued a citation earlier this month saying he was in violation of the county's junk nuisance ordinance.

June 22- Richie DeLucia was a father of two, a musician and a cook working toward opening his own restaurant.

Ask Virginia Hooper if her job is physically demanding, and the Atmore grandmother offers this simple reply: "When we get ready to move furniture around at my house, I just grab my side of it." Chances are that furniture will slide into place with nary a scratch as long as Hooper directs it.

A fatal accident on Interstate 65 in Escambia County backed up traffic northbound for hours Friday.

By Gary Palmer The United States Supreme Court recently issued an opinion that could impact the future of Poarch Creek Indian gambling operations in Alabama.

Kennedy McGhee, a young princess of Alabama's Poarch Band of Creek Indians, saw her reservation from the sky Sunday -- and she did so without an airplane.

An Alabama death row inmate who taunted his victim's mother with grisly, graphic drawings and writings on the Internet has been executed.

Alabama death row inmate Jack Trawick is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Thursday at Holman Prison in Atmore.

June 9 - Police say a man has confessed to robbing women in Alabama and Florida.

AUTAUGAVILLE The high cost of health care for those who can least afford it was discussed Saturday at the Alabama Conference Branch of the Womens Missionary Society Convention.

A 29-year-old man is under arrest and charged with two separate robberies. On Monday, Atmore Police got a call from an elderly woman saying he had been flagged down by another motorist on Pensacola Avenue, but when she stopped, the man robbed her.

May 24 - Three Atmore police are on paid administrative leave after a high-speed chase through parts of Alabama and Florida.

A man shot by Atmore police during a chase early Sunday has died at a Mobile hospital.

A man shot by Atmore police during a chase early Sunday has died at a Mobile hospital.

A man shot by Atmore police remains in critical condition at the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile.

Escambia Sheriff's Investigators have released surveillance pictures of a suspected bank robber.

Investigators are searching for a man they believe robbed the First National Bank and Trust in Atmore, Alabama Tuesday evening.

Authorities in south Alabama are on the lookout for an armed man who robbed the First National Bank and Trust in Atmore.

Police in Atmore, Alabama...Are also looking for a bank robber... One they say is armed and dangerous.