Atmore News

An Atmore dentist was found dead in his home Saturday, according to the Atmore Advance .

Gov. Bob Riley has claimed another victory in his fight against gambling in Alabama, but several officials disagree with Riley over whether shutting down electronic bingo at private facilities such as the one in White Hall would create a monopoly for Indian operations.

RealtyLink LLC announced the sale of a 2,789-square-foot Hardee's building it had developed in 2009 on .87 acres in Atmore, Alabama.

In a Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, photo, Dan Mann of Navarre, Fla., plays electronic bingo at Wind Creek Casino and Hotel during the casino and restaurant grand opening in Atmore, Ala.

Demolition of the old Crichton Elementary on McLean Avenue between Spring Hill Avenue and Old Shell Road by general contractor Martin Construction Inc., of Atmore, Ala., continues Monday, Nov.

Soldier Benjamin McBride of Atmore with Alpha Company 711 , gives the peace sign to parade goers as the Mobile Veterans Day Parade parade moves down Government Street on November 11, 2009.

Jordan Ezkiel Ammons, 96, of Perdido, Ala., died Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Visitation: 6 to 8 tonight at Perdido Baptist Church.

A man charged with killing a worker and wounding five others in the Orlando engineering firm where he once worked has been denied bond.

Gov. Bob Riley in a 2008 file photo. In a letter to lawmakers last week, Riley denied claims that crackdowns on electronic bingo would give Indian casinos a monopoly.

ATMORE - Corrections officials say 64-year-old David Larry Nelson, who has been on death row for more than 27 years, has died at the Holman prison infirmary.

Four teenagers are behind bars tonight, in connection with a shooting in Atmore Monday.

A Marine corporal receives donations at a Toys For Tots station at Babies 'R' Us in west Mobile on Nov.

A state official says an oil well drilled on state prison property in south Alabama is producing nearly 500 barrels of oil a day.

A hearing over whether electronic bingo machines at a Walker County hall are legal is slated to begin Tuesday.

Her love of art began at an early age in the back room of a florist shop in Atmore.

The Attorney General's office has asked the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date for a man convicted of killing three people at a Gadsden Popeye's Restaurant in 1994.

A 42-year-old man wanted in connection with the disappearance of a witness in 2001 has surrendered in Atmore.

ATMORE -- Alabama death row inmate Max Payne was executed by lethal injection Thursday for the 1992 kidnapping, robbery and killing of Cullman store owner Braxton Brown.

The man who murdered a Cullman County store owner was executed by lethal injection tonight.

Death row inmate Max Landon Payne is spending the day before his scheduled execution visiting with a dozen friends and relatives at Holman Prison near Atmore.