Florida is halting payments to Maryland-based Conduent State and Local Solutions, the company contracted to upgrade the SunPass toll-collection system. The upgrades to the SunPass Centralized Customer Service System were supposed to have been completed June 11th. However, no completion date has been set to catch up on the backload of at least 100 million…… MORE
Yearly Archives: 2018
DEFUNIAK FIRE VICTIM IDENTIFIED
The 68-year-old woman who died in a late-night fire in Defuniak Springs over the weekend has been identified by Walton County authorities. The fire was in a mobile home in the 200 block of Josephine Street and was reported just after 11 o’clock Sunday night. Walton County Fire Rescue and Walton County Sheriff’s Office responded…… MORE
PENSACOLA POLICE DEATH INVESTIGATION
Pensacola police are investigating a report of a body found in a car near the Graffiti Bridge yesterday afternoon. Police said the car was in the area of Belmont Street and 16th avenues a block or two north of the bridge. The cause of death still has to be determined and few details of the…… MORE
BEACH BOAT RESCUE
The U.S. Coast Guard people rescued 11 people near Pensacola Beach on Saturday afternoon after their boat capsized during the Blue Angels air show. The 34-foot boat was a half-mile south of Pensacola Beach and the Coast Guard’s 45-foot response boat, along with assistance from other boaters, picked up all 11 people and took them to Holiday Harbor…… MORE
I-10 TRAFFIC FATALITY
The Florida Highway Patrol said a truck driver died in a single-vehicle crash Saturday night on Interstate 10. Troopers said 45-year-old Michael Centeno of Homestead was westbound on I-10 near mile marker 90 when his tractor-trailer ran off the Interstate and struck several trees. Centeno, who was wearing a seat belt, died in the crash…… MORE
KICKBACK PLEAS
Two men have pleaded guilty in federal court in Pensacola to participating in a contracting and kickback scheme involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. A former contracting officer at Eglin Air Force Base, 53-year-old Jerry Vertefeuille of Niceville, and 37-year-old Christopher Carter of Fort Walton Beach, owner of TCC Services Unlimited, pleaded guilty to conspiracy…… MORE
BAY COUNTY CONTRABAND ARREST
A 32-year-old Bay County inmate has been charged with trying to smuggle synthetic marijuana into the jail by coating pieces of paper with the liquid form of the substance. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office says on May 4th Bertucci contacted 32-year-old Justin Paradise using the jail phone system, which is a recorded line, and arranged…… MORE
BODY OF MISSING WOMAN FOUND
Pensacola Police say the body of a Pensacola woman who was reported missing last month, has been found. Detectives found the body of 25-year-old Cassandra Robinson at about 8 p.m. yesterday inside a cargo trailer near Fairfield Drive and 65th Avenue. Robinson was reported missing by her family in early June. She had not been…… MORE
PENSACOLA BEACH TRAUMA ALERT
A man was airlifted to a hospital as a trauma alert after falling from a balcony at a house on Pensacola Beach. The call was received around 3:30pm at a house in the 300 block of Panferio Drive. Life Flight was called to the scene, and the man was airlifted just after 4:30 p.m. His name has…… MORE
FLORIDA GUN LAW LEGAL CHALLENGE
Attorney General Pam Bondi is urgig a circuit judge to dismiss a challenge to a law that imposes strict penalties on local governments and officials who violate a restriction on regulating guns and ammunition. The case comes from a decades-old law that gives the state power to regulate firearms and ammunition and preempts the ability…… MORE
