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A Daphne man stopped on Interstate 65 Saturday about midnight driving with no head lights or tail lights, now sits in the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton on $1.5 million bond after the trooper found about 13 pounds of marijuana products that included gummie bears edibles, vapes and liquid containing THC levels higher than allowed by law. THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) is the drug compound found in marijuana, which is illegal in the state of Alabama. Derrick Lee Cotton, 48, 7231 Cypress...
A 70-year old Brewton area woman died Friday night when the wheelchair-bound woman was trapped inside her burning home on Jernigan Road, near McCall. Phala Partin Hay, 266 Jernigan Road, was found inside the home by first responders, according to McCall Volunteer Fire Department Chief Charles Jackson. Jackson said Brewton Police Officer Tyler Aaron discovered the home fully involved and called at 9:53 p.m. Jackson also said he received a call of the house fully involved in flames with someone...
Escambia County (Ala.) will be holding its online delinquent tax sale beginning at 9 a.m. Monday, May 17, and will continued until 4 p.m. The sale of parcels with past due property taxes will continue at the same time day-to-day until the sale is completed. Persons interested in bidding on properties need to register at www.govease.com. Tax Collector Tim Pettis noted this is the first year for the online sale vs. selling the properties on the front lawn of the courthouse. He said Tuesday he...
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Flomaton Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr., and several council members said all grant applications for funds to help the town need to come from the mayor's office and not from individual council members. “We are all elected together as a team,” Bondurant said during Monday afternoon's town council meeting. Bondurant said he received a call recently from State Rep. Alan Baker asking if anybody had asked him about a grant to purchase air packs for the fire department. “He asked, 'what kind of counc...
Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff Heath Jackson told county commissioners Monday that they should expect a crowd of people at the next meeting to complain about the noise at the Tri-County Racetrack near Flomaton. Jackson told the commission his office received multiple calls this past weekend complaining about the noise. Jackson said all he can tell them is that the county does not have a noise ordinance and there's nothing his office can do. It was stated that races were still going on at 1 a.m....
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