The Santa Rosa County School District has suspended their student vaccination program after more parents complained that their children received flu shots without their consent. One mother said that she wrote on the permission form not to give her daughter a flu shot, but she received one anyway. Dr. Pamela Michelle Grier-Hall, with Community Health…… MORE
Yearly Archives: 2018
. FLORIDA SUPREME COURT SELECTION LAWSUIT
Florida Gov Rick Scott is asking the state’s highest court to throw out a lawsuit challenging his authority to appoint three new justices to the state’s Supreme Court. The League of Women Voters and Common Cause maintain the picks should be made by Scott’s successor. Age limits are forcing three justices to retire on the…… MORE
AIR FORCE SEXUAL HARASSMENT STUDY
According to a recent study by the RAND Corporation’s National Defense Research Institute study, Hurlburt Field ranked ninth among Air Force installations where Air Force women faced the greatest risk of sexual assault or sexual harassment. However, that risk was less than 1 percent. The highest-ranked base on the list, Oklahoma’s Vance Air Force Base,…… MORE
GRAY TRIGGERFISH SEASON CLOSED
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation commission says starting tomorrow, the gray triggerfish season is closed in state waters. The FWC said the decision to close the season early was made after harvest projections indicated the quota has already been reached. The closure will remain in effect through December 31st and will reopen on March…… MORE
FATAL TRACTOR ACCIDENT
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office says a tractor accident in Molino yesterday afternoon claimed the life of a four-year child. Officials received a call around 3 p.m. on Wednesday that the boy had been run over by a tractor in the 600 block of Highway 196. Emergency Medical Services responded and pronounced the child dead…… MORE
SCENIC HIGHWAY TRAFFIC FATALITY
The Florida Highway Patrol says an early morning traffic crash on Scenic Highway in Escambia County took the life of a 49-year-old man. Troopers say 49-year-old Michael Rhatigan was northbound on Scenic Highway around 12:45 am yesterday when his pickup left the road crashed into a concrete center divider and a pole. He was transported…… MORE
NAKED MAN ARRESTED
A Santa Rosa homeowner found something usual in his front yard – a naked man. Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the home in the 5800 block of Hamilton Bridge Road in Milton and found 35-year-old Jerry Outler lying nude behind bushes in the front yard. He told them he did not know how…… MORE
RED TIDE
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports lower concentrations of red tide have been reported in Bay, Walton and Gulf Counties since the last report on September 21st. Red tide has ended the scallop season in Gulf County and the St. Joseph Bay earlier than scheduled, with the season originally scheduled to run through…… MORE
WHITING FIELD SECURITY THREAT
NAS Whiting Field in Milton temporarily closed their west entry gate after a driver made a comment to NAS personnel that prompted security concerns. Around 6:20 p.m. on Tuesday the individual – who was in a commercial vehicle – approached the west gate entrance to Whiting Field in Milton where he made the comment to…… MORE
WALTON COUNTY COUNTERFEITER ARRESTED
Defuniak Springs Police say counterfeit bills passed in the Walton County have led to the arrest of a 47-year-old Alabama man. After receiving a report of the bills being passed police found Raymond Nobles, of Harvest, Alabama, at Lake Stanley Park. Multiple counterfeit bills and a printer were found in his vehicle. Nobles was arrested…… MORE
