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Following a closed session of the Escambia County (Ala.) Healthcare Authority Tuesday afternoon, Stephen Fischer was appointed as the interim Chief Executive Officer following a week that saw former CEO Jeffrey Quentin Booth placed on paid administrative leave, followed by his resignation and then Booth being arrested twice: Friday and Saturday. Booth, 59, a resident of Dadeville, Ala., had served as the health care authority's CEO since April, 2021. Earlier last week Booth was placed on paid...
A Birmingham man and Tuscaloosa man are being held on $1.5 million bond each for the delivery of drugs and cell phones to the Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore. Derrick Anthony, 49, 4339 North East St., Birmingham, and Larry Sentell Mack, 33, 117 Juanita Drive, Tuscaloosa, were both charged with trafficking methamphetamine, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of marijuana I and promoting prison contraband II. According to court records on Aug. 27 the two are...
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A Pollard teenager was taken by helicopter to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola early Tuesday morning following a singe-vehicle crash that left him trapped inside the vehicle. The Flomaton Fire Department was dispatched to the intersection of McBride Street and Pollard Road at 5:31 a.m. in reference to a wreck with entrapment. Fire Chief Steve Stanton said Dustin McBride, 18, was still inside the vehicle trapped under the steering wheel. Firefighters used the jaws of life to free McBride from...
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