The lawsuit filed against Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill by former County Commissioner Gene Valentino’s, has been dismissed. Valentino filed a libel lawsuit last July against Underhill and Ray Guillory, a 2014 Democratic candidate for County Commission alleging that Guillory accused Valentino of engaging in affairs and marital infidelities. Valentino decided to drop the lawsuit…… MORE
Yearly Archives: 2018
SRCSD SWAT DEPUTIES AND SCHOOL THREATS
Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson said starting this week, Santa Rosa County will have at least one SWAT team deputy work a day shift every day of the week to provide additional school safety. He said if the Sheriff’s Department receives a call about a threat at a school the SWAT deputy would respond.…… MORE
CHARTER SCHOOL FRAUD TRIAL BEGINS
The Pensacola News Journal is reporting the trial has begun for an Ohio businessman accused of helping defraud 14 Florida schools – including three in Escambia County – of almost a million dollars in public funding. Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar said Steven Kunkemoeller would use shell companies to buy school supplies and equipment, then…… MORE
HOUSE SCHOOL SAFETY BILL
A Florida House committee voted Tuesday to put armed teachers in classrooms in response to the mass shooting at Parkland high school in Broward County. The bill would allow teachers who receive training and are certified by the local sheriff to carry a weapon in the classroom if the school district approves. The school safety…… MORE
NORTH ESCAMBIA TRAFFIC FATAL
The Florida Highway Patrol said a two-vehicle traffic crash in North Escambia County yesterday afternoon resulted in one fatality.Troopers say 56-year-old Franklin Webb was eastbound on Barrineau Park Lane when hr failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection with Highway 29 and was struck by a southbound pickup driven by 49-year-old Deane…… MORE
NEIGHBORHOOD SHOOTER ARRESTED
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Department says an 82-year old Cantonment man was arrested after shooting at his neighbors while he was drunk. A neighbor who lives across the street from Joseph Burdeshaw said he was working on a fence in his front yard on Wiggins Lane when Burdeshaw fired multiple shots just over his head and…… MORE
GULF SHORES TRAFFIC FATAL
The Alabama Highway Patrol said an 85-year-old Wisconsin man was killed Friday in a two-car collision just west of Gulf Shores, Alabama. Troopers said Lawrence Anderson, of Green Bay, Wisconsin was killed when his vehicle collided with a car driven by 22-year-old Kimberly Stokley, of Summerdale, Alabama just before 9pm on Highway 180 about seven…… MORE
ALABAMA ESCAPEE RECAPTURED
An inmate who escaped from a Baldwin County work release center early Sunday morning has been recaptured. The Alabama Department of Corrections said 29-year-old John Johnson, Jr. was reported missing during an inmate count at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday. Walker is serving a 20-year sentence on a first-degree robbery conviction in Montgomery County in 2007.…… MORE
VERNON CITY CLERK INVESTIGATED
The City of Vernon in Washington County is investigating former City Clerk Michelle Cook’s involvement in payroll discrepancies and unauthorized use of City credit cards. The pay stubs of former City Clerk Michelle Cook showed discrepancies in how her hourly pay rate was calculated from October, 2014 to December, 2017. Cook’s attorney, Lisa Anderson of…… MORE
UWF STUDENT MURDERER EXECUTED
The man convicted of murdering a University of West Florida student 25 years ago has been executed. Eric Scott Branch was put to death by lethel injection last night in the Florida State Prison at Raiford. Appeals for Eric Scott Branch were denied and he was executed just after 6pm. On the evening of January…… MORE
