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Explosives
found in Calhoun & Etowah Counties
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Anniston
Jail employee charged with assisting escapee
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Girl injured
in fire continues to improve
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Jacksonville
mill being considered for historic status
Explosives found
in Calhoun & Etowah Counties
Explosives
officers from the Anniston Army Depot were kept busy Wednesday with
the discovery of explosives in Calhoun and Etowah counties. Calhoun
county sheriff’s deputies closed a section of
Winchester Road
yesterday after county road department employees discovered a
galvanized pipe bomb on the shoulder of the road. The bomb disposal
unit from the Anniston army depot defused the device which contained a
pipe filled with gunpowder and sealed with metal caps. Officials say
that it appeared that the fuse had been lit but the device did not
explode. In Etowah county two mortar rounds that army officials say
could contain chemical agents were discovered near the former Camp
Sibert in Etowah County. The two 4.2 inch rounds were discovered by
residents on a farm near the former camp. The rounds were transported
to the Anniston Army depot where the army dispatched a team of five
chemical weapons specialists from Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas with
equipment to examine the rounds. Army Spokesman Michael Abrams warned
residents in both Etowah and Calhoun counties to be vigilant about
unexploded ordinance. If you find something that looks like a
grenade, artillery shell or mortar, you should leave it alone and call
authorities.
Anniston
Jail employee charged with assisting escapee
As Calhoun
County Sheriffs Deputies continue their search for a 33 year old
Anniston man who escaped and assaulted a Deputy over the weekend, they
have arrested an Anniston City Jail employee charging him with
hindering prosecution. According to Chief Deputy Matthew Wade, James
Smelcher is only one of several people who have hindered the capture
of Clay Ewing. Wade said that warrants have been taken for Ewing’s
wife and sister who have both hindered in his capture. A
deputy responded to a domestic violence call Monday and arrested
Ewing,
placing him in the patrol car. While the deputy, who was alone,
checked on the victim,
Ewing kicked out
a window and escaped, when the deputy talked him,
Ewing
broke the deputy’s nose and fled. According to Chief Deputy Wade,
Ewing had
just been released from the Anniston City Jail following a domestic
violence arrest. Ewing is described as 5 ft 8 inches tall
about 150 pounds. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is
asked to call the Calhoun County Sheriffs Department at 236-6600.
Girl injured in
fire continues to improve
A 14 year old
Oxford teen injured in Sunday’s fire that killed two teenage boys
continues to improve in a Birmingham hospital. Officials say that
Michelle White was taken off a ventilator Wednesday at children’s
hospital in Birmingham where she is being treated for second and third
degree burns on her hands. White is now able to breathe on her own
and will be moved to the hospitals burn clinic after being released
from the intensive care unit. 13 year old April Franklin was released
from Regional Medical Center on Tuesday after being treated for cuts
she received from kicking out a window to escape the fire. 16 year
old Jeremy Johnson and 13 year old Brandon Mason were killed in the
early morning fire. Family members of the girls who survived the fire
credit Johnson for getting the girls out of the house before trying to
save himself. Two other people, including a man in a wheelchair both
escaped the fire unharmed.
Jacksonville
mill being considered for historic status
The National
Historic Register Review Board will consider designating
Jacksonville’s Union Yarn Mill and the Mill Village to be placed on
the National Register of Historic Places. The yarn mill had operated
in
Jacksonville
for 95 years before closing in 2001 when then owner fruit of the loom
declared bankruptcy. The site was proposed for the register last fall
but was delayed by a paperwork problem. If the designation is
approved, anyone who restores the buildings for commercial use would
receive a 20% income tax credit. Owner of the property, Jack Coker,
or Coker International says he plans to dismantle one of the buildings
on the site to salvage building materials that he estimates is worth
1.5 million dollars. Coker said he plans to obtain a demolition
permit for the three story building at the property within a week.
The
Jacksonville
Mayor and Council approved a new demolition ordinance Tuesday to
regulate demolition and insure total site cleanup.
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