From the West Alabama Newsroom– The Wilcox County Sheriff’s Office needs your help to identify a pair of burglars. Sheriff Earnest Evans is hoping the public can help his investigators bring a couple of criminals to justice. Oak Hill Grocery store — in rural Wilcox County — has been broken into by burglars two months in a row. “The first…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– More details emerge in the deadly shooting that claimed the lives of a Wilcox County constable — and the suspected shooter. Seventy-eight year old Madison “Skip” Nicholson of Camden was a long-time Wilcox County constable — as well as a long-time process server with the sheriff’s office. He was pronounced dead at a Pensacola hospital…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A Camden man is killed in a one-vehicle accident — when he drives his log truck off a bridge — and into the creek below. “No words can explain the hurt that I feel.” Crystal Portis took her nephew Charles Portis into her home as a child — and raised him just like one of…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– The Wilcox County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting at a race track — that left two people hurt. Sheriff EArnest Evans says two people were shot Saturday night at Yellow Bluff Dragway — when someone pulled a gun out at the race track — and started shooting. “Two people were shot, a young person…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– One person is dead — and another is behind bars — after a shooting early Sunday morning in Wilcox County. Sheriff Earnest Evans says 17 year old Steven Etheridge is charged with murder in the shooting death of 22 year old Markeesa Pettway. “A murder case is a Class-A felony, so he’s being charged as…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A death investigation is underway in Wilcox County after a man is found dead over the weekend. Sheriff Earnest Evans says Steve Stacie’s body was found lying outside near his home on Hilltop Drive at around six Saturday evening. Evans says Stacie’s body has been sent to forensics to determine the exact cause of death….
