The City of Milton’s Mayor, Heather Lindsay, in an emergency declaration has ordered that masks be worn inside all businesses by both employees and customers. The city of Gulf Breeze has also issued a declaration requiring masks and the City of Pensacola ordered masks be worn last week. However, masks are not required in the…… MORE

A former quartermaster of a Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Milton has been arrested for stealing more $140,000 from the nonprofit organization. The president of VFW Post 4833 on Carroll Road in Milton contacted the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office last summer to report that 35-year-old Steven Williams, of Milton, had stolen more than…… MORE

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Department is still seeking a suspect for an attempted armed robbery that happened Tuesday night on Jackson Street and 57th Avenue in Myrtle Grove. The victim says the suspect tried to sell them drugs as they were coming out of a store and when the victim refused and started to ride…… MORE

The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus is now at least 400,000. The United States leads the world with nearly 110,000 confirmed virus-related deaths. Europe has more than 175,000 Italy and Spain, with over 60,000 combined deaths, have acknowledged that their death count is probably larger. Brazil’s government has stopped publishing a running…… MORE

The Florida Highway Patrol says a 36-year-old man and a two-year-old boy were hit by a car Tuesday night in the Gulf Island National Seashore near Pensacola Beach. Troopers say the two were getting into a car that was parked on the side of State Road 399 around 8:30 p.m. when an oncoming car swerved…… MORE