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WEEKEND SEVERE WEATHER
Severe weather moving through the area caused scattered power outages across northwest Florida. An estimated 10,000 customers were without power from Escambia to Bay Counties, with the most outages re...
May 13, 2019
ESCAPED FUGITIVE RECAPTURED
A 27-year-old man who escaped custody after being arrested and handcuffed Friday, has been recaptured. The Bay County Sheriff's Office, the Panama City Police Department and the US Marshals Office had...
May 13, 2019
CHILD ABUSER DIES
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office says a 37-year-old Pensacola man accused of torturing a toddler has died a week after hanging himself in his jail cell. Andrew Bennett Ross Celaius, was foun...
May 09, 2019
PENSACOLA DEATH INVESTIGATION
Pensacola Police are conducting a homicide investigation after the body of 66-year-old James Royster, of Pensacola, was found yesterday morning at a home at 1035 East Lee Street. A suspect was being q...
May 09, 2019
CANTONMENT TRAIN BLOCKING
Escambia County commissioner Steven Barry says there may be a solution to trains blocking local roads for extended periods of time and cutting off a Cantonment neighborhood. Commissioner Barry said CS...
May 09, 2019
CONGRESSMAN GAETZ INVESTIGATION
The Florida Bar says they will continue their disciplinary investigation into a tweet sent by Congressman Matt Gaetz about President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen. Bar officials sa...
May 09, 2019
ARMED TEACHERS IN FLORIDA
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed legislation that expands the controversial school guardian program to allow armed classroom teachers. The bill was backed by House and Senate Republicans and o...
May 09, 2019
WALMART RAISES AGE TO PURCHASE TOBACCO
Walmart said Wednesday that it will raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products and e-cigarettes at its U.S. stores to 21 amid growing pressure from regulators to cut tobacco sales and use among min...
May 09, 2019
POTENTIAL BRIDGE JUMPER TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office says a man was taken into custody yesterday after threatening to kill himself by jumping off the Brooks Bridge. After being detained, the man was taken to Fort Wal...
May 07, 2019
EGLIN CONTROLLED BURN
Eglin Air Force Base will conduct a controlled burn, which may produce a plume of smoke visible in surrounding communities. The burn will be approximately 300 acres in the southern portion of the rese...
May 07, 2019
