The Public is invited to help honor the law enforcement officers who responded to the attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola. Six Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies and two Department of Defense officers will be recognized for their acts on December 6th at an awards ceremony at 10 a.m. today at Marcus Pointe Baptist Church on…… MORE
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NAVAL AIR STATION ACCESS
Captain Tim Kinsella, the Commanding Officer of the Pensacola Naval Air Station Pensacola, said he is hoping the base will reopen to the public in the very near future. On December 6th a Royal Saudi Air Force second lieutenant and a flight student at NAS Pensacola, shot and killed three sailors and wounded eight other…… MORE
DRUG DEALER ARRESTED
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Department says a 20-year-old Molino man has been arrested for dragging a girl with his pickup truck after a drug deal went bad. The underage victim told deputies she arranged by phone to purchase marijuana from Trevor Ross for $30, but he gave her an empty package and snatched her cash.…… MORE
WATER SYSTEM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RELEASED
Rob Williamson has been released from his position as the executive director of the Holley-Navarre Water System with board members citing “ongoing disagreements” as the reason for his departure. The decision to release Williamson from his contract was made Tuesday night, and his last day was January 29th. Williamson was hired in November 2018, less…… MORE
GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY DECLARED
The World Health Organization has now declared the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus a “global health emergency.” More than 8,000 people around the workd have been infected and more than 170 people in China have died. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the sixth case in the U.S. The CDC says 92…… MORE
BAY COUNTY SCHOOL DRESS CODE
After Hurricane Michael, the Bay County School District changed its dress code policy to a temporary one and plans to keep it in place through the next school year. The recovery dress code was established to help families affected by the storm who didn’t have the financial resources to buy certain clothes needed for school.…… MORE
UNDERAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT ARREST
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office says a 41-year-old Walnut Hill man has been arrested for getting an underage girl pregnant. William Dunsford is being accused of carrying on a sexual relationship with the girl from April 2015 to June 2019, before she became pregnant. The victim eventually told a work supervisor that Dunsford had been…… MORE
FLORIDA DEATH PENALTY DECISION
A recent Florida Supreme Court decision giving judges more discretion on who receives the death penalty may affect a local death row inmate. The decision could affect the sentence of Leonard Gonzalez Jr. who was convicted for the 2009 deaths of Escambia County residents Byrd and Melanie Billings. He was sentenced to death in 2011.…… MORE
TRIPLE MURDERER CONVICTED
An Escambia County Circuit Court jury has found a 63-year-old man guilty of murdering three family members in 2015.The bodies of Donald Hartung’s mother and two half-brothers were found on July 31st, 2015, in their home on Deerfield Drive. All three were beaten with a claw hammer and their throats slit, and one of the…… MORE
HOLMAN PRISON CLOSING
The Alabama Department of Corrections has announced plans to close and decommission the main facility at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. The 51-year-old Holman facility is one of the Department’s oldest and the structures and utility systems are deteriorating. The main facility at Holman Correctional Facility houses general population and death row inmates. However,…… MORE
