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FLORIDA DAYLIGHT SAVINGS BILL
Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio has filed separate bills in Congress aimed at keeping Florida – and the nation – on daylight-saving time throughout the year. The Florida Legislature appro...
Mar 15, 2018
FATAL BUS CRASH
The National Transportation Safety Board discussed early findings of the fatal bus crash Tuesday in Interstate-5510 in Alabama close to the Florida line. The bus was carrying band students from Texas ...
Mar 15, 2018
DEADLY BUS CRASH
A charter bus carrying high school students from Texas crashed into a ravine in Alabama off Interstate 10, east of Wilcox Road early yesterday morning. Channelview Texas High School officials said 46 ...
Mar 14, 2018
EMERGENCY PLANE LANDING
The National Park Service says a small, single-engine Cessna-type aircraft made an emergency landing Tuesday afternoon on Gulf Boulevard in the Gulf Islands National Seashore. The plane landed before ...
Mar 14, 2018
SCHOOL SHOOTING PROTESTS
Escambia County School District officials say any unsanctioned walkouts on Wednesday planned in support of the Parkland students killed in a school shooting will not approved of by the school district...
Mar 14, 2018
OKALOOSA COUNTY TEACHER APPEALS FIRING
An Okaloosa County School District English has been fired for sitting on a male student's lap while teaching a classroom of pupils. Amanda Varnum, a former Laurel Hill School teacher, was investigated...
Mar 14, 2018
SCHOOL SAFETY LAW
Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed into law a sweeping school safety package. One provision in the law raises the age from 18 to 21 to purchase rifles and other long guns and imposes a three-day w...
Mar 12, 2018
NEW JAIL CONSTRUCTION WORKERS WANTED
Whitesell-Green/Caddell, the construction group who will build the new Escambia County Jail, is seeking to prequalify subcontractors and vendors who want to participate in the construction of the new ...
Mar 12, 2018
FLORIDA DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
Daylight savings time began yesterday for what may be the last time for Floridians after the Legislature approved a bill to keep Florida on daylight-saving time year-round. Governor Rick Scott still h...
Mar 12, 2018
HIGHWAY NAMED FOR SENATOR EVERS
The Florida Legislature has passed a bill naming a stretch of road in Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties as "Senator Greg Evers Memorial Highway." The 62-year-old Evers, died last summer in a single-veh...
Mar 12, 2018
Night
79°FLowWind/Dir: 10 MPH-E
Precipitation: 5%
Clear, with a low around 79. East wind 10 to 15 mph.
Day
90°FHighWind/Dir: 10 MPH-E
Precipitation: 7%
Sunny, with a high near 90. East wind 10 to 15 mph.
Night
79°FLowWind/Dir: 5 MPH-SE
Precipitation: 33%
A slight chance of rain showers between 10pm and 1am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1am and 4am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 79. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Thu Sep 10
Day
88°FHighWind/Dir: 5 MPH-SE
Precipitation: 69%
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 1pm and 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Night
78°FLowWind/Dir: 5 MPH-S
Precipitation: 53%
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 78. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Fri Sep 11
Day
87°FHighWind/Dir: 0 MPH-S
Precipitation: 81%
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7am, then showers and thunderstorms between 7am and 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 87. South wind 0 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Night
79°FLowWind/Dir: 5 MPH-SW
Precipitation: 53%
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 10pm and 1am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 79. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Sat Sep 12
Day
88°FHighWind/Dir: 5 MPH-S
Precipitation: 77%
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7am, then showers and thunderstorms between 7am and 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 88. South wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Night
78°FLowWind/Dir: 0 MPH-S
Precipitation: 51%
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 78. South wind 0 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Sun Sep 13
Day
88°FHighWind/Dir: 0 MPH-S
Precipitation: 49%
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Night
78°FLowWind/Dir: 0 MPH-S
Precipitation: 49%
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 78. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Mon Sep 14
Day
89°FHighWind/Dir: 0 MPH-E
Precipitation: 35%
A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 7am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 89. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Night
78°FLowWind/Dir: 0 MPH-SE
Precipitation: 35%
A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 78. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Tue Sep 15
Day
89°FHighWind/Dir: 5 MPH-E
Precipitation: 51%
A chance of showers and thunderstorms between 7am and 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 89.
