Construction on the new Escambia County Jail could begin as soon as April. Whitesell-Green/Caddell here in Pensacola, was awarded the contract and the new facility, will be located at the intersection of Pace Boulevard and Fairfield Drive and will serve as the central booking facility and juvenile housing, replacing the one destroyed in a 2014…… MORE
Yearly Archives: 2018
FALSE TSUNAMI WARNING
Many local subscribers to AccuWeather received a tsunami warning, on their cell phones yesterday morning warning. The National Tsunami Warning Center, part of the National Weather Service, issued a routine tsunami test message at approximately this morning, but was retransmitted by AccuWeather as an actual tsunami warning for the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico, and…… MORE
FLORIDA CONFEDERATE HOLIDAYS
The Community Affairs Committee in the Florida Senate has voted to support a that bill would remove Confederate days from a list of 21 legal holidays on the books in Florida. The birthdays of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, along with a Confederate Memorial Day, have been on the books…… MORE
CANTONMENT POWER OUTAGE
About 30 Gulf Power company customers lost power this afternoon in the Perdido Lake Road area of Cantonment when a sanitation company boom truck accidentally took down power lines and several utility poles about 2:30. Cable and telephone lines were also downed, but no injuries were reported.… MORE
CONSTITUTION REVISION COMMISSION
The Florida Constitution Revision Commission is ready to begin holding public hearings. Five public hearings that will be held across the state by the 37-member commission, which meets every 20 years and has the ability to place constitutional amendments on the 2018 general election ballot. One of those hearings will be in Pensacola. The commission…… MORE
FORMER PC ARTS CENTER DIRECTOR ARRESTED
The former director of the Panama City Visual Arts Center has been charged with fraud. After a three-year investigation, charges were filed Monday in federal court in Tallahassee against Vicki Dyer Middlemas. Federal authorities say Middlemas allegedly submitted fraudulent construction bills to the city, but wrote checks to herself and put personal expenses on Visual…… MORE
FAKE CANCER FRAUD FOLLOW-UP
After an Okaloosa County couple was charged with fraud and child abuse for collecting money after saying their 13-year-old son was dying of brain cancer a spokesman for GoFundMe said they will refund any donated money. 34-year-old Ginny and 47-year-old Robert Long are each facing nine counts of fraud and one count of child abuse.…… MORE
FISH HATCHERY AGENDA ITEMS WITHDRAWN
The Pensacola News Journal is reporting items related to the lease of the planned fish hatchery at Bruce Beach have once again been removed from the Pensacola City Council agenda. Councilwoman Sherri Myers was proposing an item to void the hatchery lease or request the city hold a referendum on relocating the hatchery. Councilwoman Jewel…… MORE
GREAT WHITE SHARK IN THE GULF
A young, female great white shark is being tracked as she travels through the Gulf of Mexico. An international shark tracking organization has been following the 8-foot-6-inch, 460-pound immature female shark they named “Savannah” that was tagged last March in the Atlantic off Hilton Head, South Carolina. Since then Savannah has traveled more than 4,115…… MORE
MISPLACED GUN
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office reports one of their school resource officers left her weapon inside a faculty bathroom yesterday morning. The officer placed her service weapon on a in a restroom at Elliot Point Elementary School. It was found by a parent. According to OCSO, the school resource officer immediately reported the incident to…… MORE
