Donald Rotch, the principal of T.R. Miller High School, was killed tonight when a drug suspect fleeing Brewton police collided head-on with his car, police Chief Monte McGougin said.

BREWTON, Ala. -- Donald Rotch, the principal of T.R. Miller High School, was killed tonight when a drug suspect fleeing Brewton police collided head-on with his car, police Chief Monte McGougin said.
 
The fleeing suspect, Marcus Reid, was also killed, McGougin said.
 
The collision took place on U.S. 31 on the north end of the city, near where Old Castleberry Road crosses the highway.
 

T.R. Miller High School Principal Donnie Rotch was killed Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010, in a collision with a man fleeing police, authorities in Brewton said.

McGougin said police tried to stop Reid, who was recently indicted on drug charges, in Brewton, and Reid headed north for about three miles on U.S. 31 in what Escambia County District Attorney Steve Billy called a high-speed chase.

Rotch was driving south toward the city when his vehicle was struck by Reid's car, McGougin said.

The crash scene is about two miles north of T.R. Miller, where Rotch had served as principal for about 10 years.
 
Before he was principal, Rotch was the school's longtime head baseball coach and also served as an assistant football coach. He was on the Tigers' football staff when the school won a state championship in 1984.

Brewton police closed a section of U.S. 31 on the city's north side while the investigation into the crash continued.

It was not immediately known if there were others either in Rotch's car or in the one driven by Reid. McGougin said more information would be released today.

BREWTON, Ala. -- A car being chased by Brewton police collided head-on with another vehicle on U.S. 31 tonight, killing two people, Escambia County District Attorney Steve Billy told the Press-Register. The pursuit, described by Billy as a high-speed chase, began about 8 p.m. in Brewton and headed north on U.S. 31 toward the city limits when the collision...

BREWTON, Ala. -- A car being chased by Brewton police collided head-on with another vehicle on U.S. 31 tonight, killing two people, Escambia County District Attorney Steve Billy told the Press-Register.

The pursuit, described by Billy as a high-speed chase, began about 8 p.m. in Brewton and headed north on U.S. 31 toward the city limits when the collision took place.

While it was not immediately known how many others were injured. Witnesses at the scene saw at least one ambulance heading to a hospital in Brewton with a patient inside.

It was also not immediately known why the car was fleeing police or if those killed were in the fleeing car or the southbound vehicle.

The crash took place near Old Castleberry Road north of T.R. Miller High School.
 

Spokesman Officer Christopher Levy said a woman resident called police about 4 a.m. to report glass breaking in the parking lot, and the first officers arrived within a minute, spotted Delwin Desmond Bonner and took him into custody.

Delwin Desmond Bonner

MOBILE, Ala. -- Police arrested a man at Hunter's Pointe Apartments on Lloyd's Lane early this morning after responding to a report of vehicle vandalism, then discovered nine cars broken into at the scene. 

Two others are being sought, police said.
 
Delwin Desmond Bonner, 24, was charged with nine counts of unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle and one count of possession of burglary tools. He was in Mobile County Metro jail Wednesday evening on $27,000 bail, according to jail records.

Spokesman Officer Christopher Levy said a woman resident called police about 4 a.m. to report glass breaking in the parking lot, and the first officers arrived within a minute, spotted Bonner and took him into custody. Officers then discovered that nine cars had been broken into, and they were able to return property to several victims, Levy said.

Two men who are believed to have been with Bonner are being sought, Levy said.

A motorist was shot Tuesday while driving along Interstate 65 in Saraland, and police are appealing to the public to help find the assailant.

SARALAND, Ala. -- A motorist was shot Tuesday while driving along Interstate 65 in Saraland, and police are appealing to the public to help find the assailant.

Saraland police spokesman Sgt. Leroy Smith said the victim was taken to University of South Alabama Medical Center for treatment after the incident, which took place sometime between 2:15 and 2:45 p.m.

The victim's condition was not available Wednesday evening.

The incident took place in the southbound lanes in a stretch of I-65 south of the U.S. 43 exit in Creola. I-65 runs for several miles through Saraland, from about a mile north of Celeste Road to the Chickasabogue bridge south of Industrial Parkway.

Smith said two vehicles, a silver 2009 Chevrolet pickup and a maroon 1998 Chevrolet Tahoe were both southbound when shots were fired from one vehicle to the other. Smith did not say which vehicle contained the victim and which contained the shooter.

Smith said anyone who was in the area at the time and who saw anything that might solve the case should call Saraland police at 251-675-5331.

The Obama administration today released a 40-page agreement with BP that requires the company to set aside revenue from its U.S. oil and natural gas production as collateral for a $20 billion fund to pay victims of the massive Gulf oil spill.

View full size(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Oil is seen on the water from the deck of the Joe Griffin at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill containment efforts in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Lousiana Friday, May 7, 2010.

MOBILE, Ala. -- A federal jury here today convicted a local Roto-Rooter franchise of dumping thousands of gallons of grease into the sewer system and found two company executives guilty of lesser crimes.

View full size(File)As part of a public awareness campaign, MAWSS has handed out grease containers to get people to stop pouring grease down the drain. A federal jury in Mobile, Ala., convicted a local Roto-Rooter franchise of dumping thousands of gallons of grease from area restaurants into the sewer system.

Missing Alzheimer's patient Thomas Burrell, 85, was located alive late Wednesday afternoon in a ditch near Burden and Shell streets in Crichton, Mobile police said.

View full sizeThomas Archie Burrell

MOBILE, Ala. -- Missing Alzheimer's patient Thomas Burrell, 85, was located alive late Wednesday afternoon in a ditch near Burden and Shell streets in Crichton, Mobile police said.

Burrell was located shortly after 5 p.m. He was treated on the scene for dehydration and taken to University of South Alabama Medical Center for evaluation, spokesman Officer Christopher Levy said.

Levy said Burrell was last seen about 1 a.m. Tuesday at his home on Rice Street, about two and one-half blocks from where he was found.