Escambia County News

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

A local woman got the shock of her life this weekend after striking and killing a 265-pound bear on Plywood Mill Road.

Authorities in Escambia County have arrested a school board member after he was indicted on allegations of fondling female inmates under his control when he was a corrections officer.

BREWTON, Ala. - Escambia County Sheriff's deputies arrested school board member Richard Hawthorne on Friday after a grand jury indicted the former corrections officer on seven charges in connection with allegations that he fondled female inmates under his control, according to Escambia County Sheriff Grover Smith.

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

Greg White of Andalusia has announced he will seek election to the District 92 seat in the Alabama House of Representatives, which includes the eastern portion of Escambia County and all of Covington County.

One shot to the head was all it took for an elderly gentleman to bring down a home intruder.

Escambia County Deputy Lavada Burroughs does a good deed. Why was the Escambia County Sheriff's Office helicopter flying Oct.

The State Health Department confirms an 18th fatality in Alabama H1N1 Influenza.

The man shot to death while trying to break into an Escambia County, Alabama home had an accomplice.

Oct. 16 - An 18th person in Alabama has died from the swine flu. The latest victim was a man in his 40s from Escambia County.

A 24-year-old man was in the Escambia County Jail on Thursday charged with joining in a failed burglary that left his alleged crime partner shot to death.

An Atmore man says he is not a killer as he turns himself into the Escambia County, Alabama sheriff.

Oct. 12 - An armed intruder was shot and killed after confronting a couple in the bedroom of their home near Brewton Monday morning, Escambia County Sheriff's deputies said.

An 81-year-old man shot and killed a masked gunman during a home invasion early this morning at a residence north of Brewton, Escambia County Sheriff Grover Smith said.

A murder suspect is still on the run, considered armed and dangerous. The Escambia County, Alabama Sheriff says they first started investigating Bruce Day back in 2001 for attempted murder.

An Alabama homicide suspect, whose manhunt triggered the lockdown of the University of West Florida Tuesday, surrendered to authorities tonight in Atmore, Ala.

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

The mother of a Perdido, Alabama man believed to have been murdered eight years ago is speaking exclusively to Channel Three News.

University of West Florida President Judy Bense called Tuesday "one of the stranger days of my presidency." Bense's office faces the woods where campus police, sheriff's deputies and federal marshals believed a murder suspect was hiding.