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The Flomaton Town Council voted Monday night to pay former Police Chief Bryan Davis $6,634.62 in overtime and back pay, calling it a business decision that would cost the town more money if it fought...

A 16-year old East Brewton resident has been charged as an adult and faces a possible prison sentence of life without the possibility of parole after being arrested for sodomizing an 8-month old girl....

Should the Flomaton Town Council have agreed to pay former Police Chief Bryan Davis $6,634.62 in overtime and back pay? I'm not sure, but I do think the council made the right decision Monday night...

The Escambia County (Ala.) Commission is moving ahead with the sale of several old vehicles and a parcel of land on River Road, which will be sold to the highest bidder. The old vehicles were...

Off duty Flomaton police officers will now be able to be hired for outside jobs to provide security to businesses and churches paying the officer directly. Police Chief Chance Thompson told the...

The only candidate to qualify for the District 5 seat on the Escambia County (Ala.) School Board is president of the organization pursuing the possibility of pulling schools located inside the city li...

A former East Brewton resident is facing multiple charges after being accused of crashing a stolen vehicle and later hiding in a storage shed outside a residence in the Ridge Road area before being...

Two goals were accomplished Tuesday morning with a controlled house burn in Flomaton that eliminated a nuisance property and gave firefighters first hand training on battling a house fire. Firemen...

Da'Shun Odom was a key piece of the 2018 Flomaton High School football team that captured the school's first state championship. The former Hurricane is about to become a Blue Dragon after signing to...

Warrants have been signed for the arrest of an Atmore man following the execution of a search warrant Friday that turned up methampheta- mine, drug paraphernalia, firearms and a stolen road sign....

When you are pushing for a cause, doesn't it make you cringe when the cause you are pushing for gets slapped in the face and while you won't admit it, you have to take a step backwards and...

A Flomaton man arrested Dec. 10 on drug charges was back behind bars Christmas Eve when police officers were dispatched to Jordan Road in reference to a suspicious person standing in the middle of...

An Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's deputy sustained minor injuries when she crashed her vehicle into trees during a high-speed chase that ended in Florida. Sheriff Heath Jackson said the sheriff's...

Escambia County (Ala.) Circuit Clerk John Robert Fountain said he expects to get the absentee ballots for the March 3 primary elections by Jan. 8, and said people seeking an absentee ballot can fill...

Cornelia Miller officially retired on Dec. 20 with 39 and a half years in education but said her job as director of adult eduction for Jefferson Davis Community College, now Coastal Alabama Community...

If you are reading this story and have not paid your proper- ty taxes in Escambia County (Ala.) you are now delinquent but do have time to pay those taxes before the property is auc- tioned off in...

We enter 2020 as an election year but for some reason I don't feel the excitement. In about 2 months Alabama voters will be going to the polls to vote in the 2020 primary elections. That date is...

The Brewton branch of the NAACP will hold its annual Martin Luther King, Jr., parade on Saturday, Jan. 18, and those wanting to participate in the parade need to contact Joe Watson at 251-809-5423....

A former Flomaton resident listed as a registered sex offender was arrested on two violations of Alabama's Sexual Offender Registration Notification Act, and released on $100,000 bond but was back in...

Escambia County (Ala.) School Superintendent John Knott said the search for a new principal for Escambia County High School in Atmore will begin immediately to fill the vacancy created by Thursday's...

The blueberry won't drop but Brewton will welcome in the New Year Dec. 31 with plenty of food, entertainment and of course fireworks at midnight when the calendar turns from 2019 to 2020. The Brewton...

Escambia Academy head football coach Hugh Fountain said he knew there was something special about Kainoa Gumapac the first time he saw him. So, he wasn't surprised to learn the 2017 graduate from EA h...

When news first started seeping out that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats were thinking about impeaching President Trump over his so-called quid pro quo with the Ukrainian president about holding up...

A Brewton man arrested Dec. 5 on a violation of probation warrant after leading law enforcement officers on a chase now faces additional charges and is being accused of tying one of the tracking dogs...

Flomaton High School's Daquan 'Money' Johnson made it official Wednesday morning when he signed a football scholarship with Duke University and will take his talents 660 miles away to Durham, N.C....