Gulf Breeze Police say a youth director at Gulf Breeze Methodist Church has been arrested for sexual offenses involving a 13-year-old girl. Police say the offenses were reported by the church’s senior pastor and the executive pastor who said there had been inappropriate touching, messaging, and photographs exchanged between 27-year-old Ryan Scott Walsh and the…… MORE
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PRO-LIFE-SANCTUARY RESOLUTION
The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners will consider a resolution at Thursday’s meeting that would make Santa Rosa County a “Pro-Life Sanctuary” county, the first in the state. The resolution, which is only symbolic, would proclaim the county as being officially anti-abortion. The Agency for Health Care Administration said there were 71,908 abortions…… MORE
SANTA ROSA COUNTY TRAFFIC FATALITY
The Florida Highway Patrol says a 70-year-old Milton woman was killed in a head-on collision yesterday afternoon on Berryhill Road just east of Preservation Boulevard in Santa Rosa County. Troopers say 36-year-old Jack Tchorzewi was driving west in an S.U.V., crossed the center line, and collided with a car driven by 70-year-old Nancy Lou Graham.…… MORE
UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT PROSECUTION
Lawrence Keef the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, says his office will take a hard-line stance on immigration by prosecuting undocumented immigrants arrested in Northwest Florida. At a press conference he said the problems that hinder federal immigration officers in sanctuary cities don’t exist in Northwest Florida. Sanctuary cities are defined as…… MORE
CANE TOADS
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is warning the public about the cane toad, a new toad species in Florida that is dangerous to pets. The FWC said the toads are poisonous to most animals that try to bite or eat them and they encourage landowners to kill cane toads on their own property…… MORE
NEW ECUA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority may soon have a new Executive Director. The board has selected J. Bruce Woody, who has been city manager since 2011 in St. Joseph, Missouri, a town of 76,000 people. He has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a M.A. in public administration. The terms of an employment contract…… MORE
BOOSTER CLUB PRESIDENT ARRESTED
The former treasurer and president of the Ransom Middle School Choral Booster Club has been arrested and charged with stealing thousands of dollars from the organization. 36-year-old Leslie Davis, is charged with organized scheme to defraud, a second-degree felony. An internal Escambia County School District investigation found over $16,000 in irregular purchases as well as…… MORE
TRIPLE MURDERER SENTENCED
A man convicted of a triple murder in Escambia County has been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences. 63-year-old Donald Hartung was sentenced Friday afternoon for killing his mother and his two half-brothers after he was intentionally left out of his mother’s will with everything set to go to the two half-brothers. The State Attorney’s…… MORE
LOCALLY STATIONED SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
The Department of Defense says two soldiers assigned to Eglin Air Force Base were killed in Afghanistan on February 8th. Sergeant 1st Class Javier Gutierrez, of San Antonio, Texas and Sergeant 1st Class Antonio Rodriguez, of Las Cruces, New Mexico – both 28 – died from wounds they suffered while engaged in combat operations. Both…… MORE
SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS SLOWING
China’s death toll from the Coroanavirus rose to 811 this weekend, greater than the number of fatalities in the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic. However, fewer new cases were reported, which may mean the spread of the disease is slowing. Some 2,656 new virus cases were reported in the 24 hours ending at midnight Saturday, most of…… MORE
