Brewton, Alabama

• Restaurant Scorecard: "Hemingway's Dining Room Disruption"
  

  Earnest Hemingway would not be proud. A popular restaurant bearing his name is cited for unsanitary conditions.

• Haywood - Gentry
  

  Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Haywood of Prattville, Alabama announce the engagement of their daughter, Kendra Blaire Haywood, to Richard Addison Gentry, son of Mr.

• Crestview Mayoral Candidate Confronts Teens
  

  Recently, a Crestview mayor candidate was charged with battery, after a confrontation with some skateborders outside of his home.

• Stephen Nodine marijuana investigation still ongoing, says prosecutor
  

  Commissioner Stephen Nodine is pictured at the Jan. 28, 2008, meeting of the Mobile County Commission at Government Plaza in Mobile, Ala.

• Alan Baker says he's running for re-election in District 66, which spans Escambia, Baldwin counties
  

  State Rep. Alan Baker, R-Brewton says he will run for re-election in House District 66, which spans Escambia and Baldwin counties.

• Racial Tension in Northwest Florida Rising After Shooting Death of 18 Year Old
  

  Racial tension is rising in the Florida Panhandle due to the shooting death of GeTyron Benjamin on Saturday February 27, 2010.

• Teen's Murder has People Talking in Alabama and Florida
  

  A deadly shooting is fueling division in two local communities,but was it racially motivated? Robert Floyd, 21, from Jay, Florida, is charged with the murder of GeTyron Benjamin, 18, from Brewton, Alabama.

• Pot found in Bible; suspect tries to swallow evidence in traffic stop, Brewton police say
  

  Two suspects were arrested recently in Brewton when an officer stopped a car, smelled marijuana, then found a Bible in which marijuana and drug paraphernalia were hidden, police said in a Brewton Standard report.

• Jay shooting leaves Brewton, Ala., man dead
  

  An 18-year-old Brewton, Ala., man is dead and a Jay man is in jail following a shooting at a bonfire party near Jay early Saturday.

• Man killed in Jay
  

  A man is dead following a shooting in Jay early this morning. Santa Rosa Sheriff's Office spokesman Marc Ward said a man from Brewton, Ala., got into an argument with a man from Jay about 2 a.m. today.

• Hard Freeze Warning
  

  LOW TEMPERATURES AROUND 20 DEGREES ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE AREA FROM NEAR CRESTVIEW TO EVERGREEN AND BREWTON TO ANDALUSIA.

• Alabama leaders back two who bribed Birmingham mayor
  

  BIRMINGHAM - Influential members of Alabama's business, legal and political communities are asking a federal judge to go easy on two men who pleaded guilty to paying off former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford in a bribery scheme.

• Juanee McCraw
  

  BREWTON, Ala. - Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at Memory Chapel Funeral Home in Laurel for Juanee Monk McCraw, 94, of Brewton, who died Feb.

• Program stresses student feats
  

  Published: Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 11:14 p.m. TUSCALOOSA Members of the Tuscaloosa County Board of Education will participate in a new program aimed at boosting student achievement.

• Snow seekers don't have to head far north
  

  When Bryan Williams didn't wake up to a winter wonderland, he hit the road in search of snow.

• Winter Storm Watch
  

  WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 351 PM CST WED FEB 10 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE LATE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY... .DUE TO A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM PASSING EASTWARD ACROSS THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...AND WITH COLD AIR POURING INTO OUR REGION FROM THE NORTH...RAIN ...

• Dueling Diagnosis
  

  Twenty-nine-year-old Samantha Brooks has a health problem: She just got a job. In October 2008, Brooks went into the hospital for an emergency gall bladder operation.

• More
  

  Authorities say a Lauderdale County man who eluded authorities for 19 months has been captured in Mexico and is being held in the couty detention center without bail.

• Jim A. Brown
  

  EAST BREWTON, Ala. - Services are 2 p.m. today at Memory Chapel Funeral Home for Jim Allen Brown, 34, of East Brewton, Ala., who died Dec.

City Description

Brewton is a city in Escambia County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 5,498. The city is the county seat of Escambia County. Brewton as a city is young in years, yet its region has been touched by many hallmarks of modern American history. Its hinterland was long the home to a variety of native American societies, while mid-16th century Spanish explorers Hernando de Soto and Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano marched their forces nearby. Through the centuries a huge forest of virgin yellow pine filled millions of available acres. Brewton's American origins began with the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which established the boundaries of the new United States, made Florida a Spanish territory, and confirmed what became Mississippi and Alabama which was created as a homeland for Upper and Lower Creeks, Choctaw, Cherokees and other tribes. Into the 1790s land hungry Georgia settlers sought new lands, pressing into tempting agricultural sites near the future Brewton. The Creeks and others resisted, and their chief, Alexander McGillivray, sought aid from the recently elected American President George Washington. The United States attempted to help, but it could not

City Contained By:

• Escambia County
• Alabama
• United States of America

City Contains:

• Brewton Historic Commercial District

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 29.5258644578 km squared

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