Articles from the November 19, 2020 edition


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  • Threats against judge, attorneys

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Nov 19, 2020

    A Brewton man who was on probation for an arson II conviction was arrested last week for making a terrorist threat for allegedly threatening to burn down the Otts and Moore law firm in Brewton with everyone inside; threatening to show up at Circuit Judge Todd Stearns house; and saying that he would sue attorneys Earnest White, Danny White and Mike Godwin for everything they ever had. Jason Warren Pugh, 53, 3494 McGougin Road, was arrested in Louisiana on a violation of probation charge and the...

  • Media posts shut down school

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Nov 19, 2020

    A Brewton woman is accused of using social media to make threats against her former employer and Pollard-McCall Jr. High School, which prompted the school to go into a lockdown Monday. Elizabeth Michelle Smith, 25, 110 River Road, was arrested Monday afternoon and charged with making a terrorist threat against the school and Provalus. Court records state Smith made threatening posts on social media toward her former employer, Provalus, and also made made mention of children, who she does not...

  • Hines is arrested for rape, enticing

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Nov 19, 2020

    An Andalusia teenager was arrested on felony charges of enticing a child for immoral purposes for allegedly forcing a 15-year old girl to have sex with him at a location in Brewton. Ashton Montgomery Hines, 19, 19555 County Road 70, Andalusia, was jailed on $500,000 bond following his arrest for enticing the child and rape I. Court records show on or about Sept. 17, 2020, Hines enticed the young girl to enter an abandoned house on Martin Luther King Drive in Brewton for the purpose of having...

  • Company pulls out of Century deal over the town's 'negative rhetoric'

    Gretchen McPherson, Staff Writer|Nov 19, 2020

    Monday night, the Century Council discussed a letter from Beck Partners the town received that Project Fusion is canceling the contract for the building and the land in Century Industrial park located in Century, citing the company 'would rather not be part of any negative rhetoric'. The company Project Fusion had put in a bid in September to purchase the town's vacant industrial building, previously occupied by Starter Sportswear and others, with the long-term anticipation that it would bring...

  • E.A. Cougars back in championship

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Nov 19, 2020

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