Escambia County News

Officials at Pensacola Greyhound Track in western Escambia County expect the track's poker room to open "around the end of January," general manager Nick Schlikin said in a Pensacola News Journal report.

November 23--Authorities are investigating the death of a well known Atmore dentist.

An Atmore dentist was found dead in his home Saturday, according to the Atmore Advance .

We're on the abortion unit in Constitutional Law III, and tonight I'm reading Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey , 505 U.S. 833 , the case famous for upholding Roe v. Wade .

'Big Brother is watching.' When I was forced to read Orwell's book, 1984 was still 12 or 13 years in the future.

A woman charged in the death of one of her children and the neglect of two others pleaded not guilty Friday, the Pensacola News Journal reported.

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.