All ECUA sanitation collections in Escambia County which includes garbage, recycling and yard trash, will be made one day later than normal this week due to the New Year’s holiday. And if you are looking to get rid of a Christmas tree, ECUA customers in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties may place real (not artificial)…… MORE
Yearly Archives: 2018
PENSACOLA DEATH INVESTIGATION
Pensacola Police say the death of a baby at Pensacola Village Apartments over the weekend is being investigated. Police responded to the apartment complex at 500 East Fairfield Drive around 2:30 p.m. Saturday where they found a 1-year-old boy dead. No other details have been released, including whether or not the death is considered suspicious.…… MORE
TURTLE EGG THIEF CHARGED
A man from Georgia has been charged in Federal Court with stealing the two turtle eggs in Gulf Shores, Alabama, last July. Kelly Ard from Social Circle, Georgia, is charged with violating the Federal Endangered Species Act. Ard was identified as the man seen in surveillance video at Crystal Shores East Condominiums with the eggs…… MORE
ATTEMPTED CAR-JACKING ARREST
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Department says a Pensacola man has been arrested for an attempted carjacking at Pensacola Beach on Christmas Eve. The victim told deputies that she was stopped at a stop sign when Nicholas Burke opened her passenger door, got in, and asked if she was an Uber driver. She said she was…… MORE
GAS PRICES STILL DECLINING
Gasoline prices may have their lowest start in the New Year since 2016. In Escambia County, prices have now fallen below $2.00 per gallon at several stations, including $1.97 Friday in Cantonment. Statewide, drivers are finding gas prices below $2.00 a gallon at about 7 percent of gas stations. Since mid-October, the state average has declined…… MORE
COAST GUARD TO BE PAID
As the partial government shutdown begins its second week the Coast Guard has announced it had found a way to pay its 42,000 members including the more than 200 men and women stationed at the Pensacola Naval Air Station Pensacola. Coast Guard members could have missed their first paycheck of January, but the Department of…… MORE
FHP DRUG ARREST
The Florida Highway Patrol says a 44-year-old Pensacola man was arrested after troopers found cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, pills and drug paraphernalia in his vehicle during a traffic stop. Troopers stopped Martego Clark for speeding on Pine Forest Road, searched the vehicle and found the illegal drugs. Clark was arrested and booked into the Escambia County…… MORE
CRESTVIEW CHURCH BURGLARY ARREST
Crestview Police say a homeless man almost blew up a Crestview church yesterday morning. Responding officers said 32-year-old Christopher Stanton, broke into the First Presbyterian Church of Crestview, took several bags of chips, used the stove to light a cigarette, and then went to sleep in an upstairs Sunday school room with his dog. But…… MORE
COMPLAINT AGAINST MIDWIFE DISMISSED
An Administrative Law Judge has recommended that a complaint against a Niceville midwife, filed in March following the death of a baby, be dismissed. Judge E. Gary Early’s ruling said he found no clear and convincing evidence to uphold any of three allegations lodged against Cynthia Denbow in a Department of Health Administrative complaint. The…… MORE
FLORIDA SCHOOL PANIC ALARM BILL
A bill filed in the Florida legislature by a South Florida Senator would require that silent panic alarms be installed to link public-school buildings to local law-enforcement agencies. Senate Bill 174 – called Alyssa’s Law,” after Alyssa Alhadeff, a 14-year-old student who was one of the 17 people killed in the February mass shooting at…… MORE
