A winning Florida Lottery Fantasy 5 ticket, purchased at a Nine Mile Road grocery store, is worth just over $107,000. The ticket sold at the Publix, 2180 West Nine Mile Road, was one of two winning tickets sold for Saturday night’s drawing. The second winning ticket was sold in Titusville. The winning numbers were 5-7-16-21-33.… MORE
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9-MILE ROAD LANE SHIFT
Motorists traveling Nine Mile Road from west of Untreiner Avenue to Surrey Drive in Escambia County will be shifted to the newly constructed eastbound roadway this week as construction continues on the road-widening project. The Florida Department of Transportation is urging driver to use extra caution as drivers become familiar with the new traffic patterns…… MORE
ECAT GRANT
Escambia County Area Transit has received a $180,000 grant from the Florida Department of Transportation to help pay for the cost of existing bus service to Cantonment, Molino and Century. The grant is for fiscal year 2019-2020, which begins October 1st and requires a 50% match from Escambia County, which is included in the upcoming…… MORE
CAUSE OF PERDIDO KEY FIRE UNDETERMINED
The Florida State Fire Marshal’s Office says they are unable to determine the cause of the fire that destroyed 26 condominiums and a stand-alone home in June on Perdidio key. The fire did an estimated five million dollars in damage. Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, said because of the extent of the damage, it…… MORE
PRISON ESCAPEE CAPTURED
The Walton County Sheriff’s Office says an escaped inmate from Tallahassee was apprehended in Walton County with the assistance of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Around 5 p.m. Wednesday, an FWC Officer spotted a car in the area of Choctaw Beach matching the description of one driven by a wanted fugitive. After a…… MORE
TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE CUTS
As a result of President Trump diverting 3.6 billion dollars from the U.S. military’s budget to fund the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Tyndall Air Force Base will have 17 million dollars cut that was meant to fund a new fire rescue and crash response station for the base. The administration’s transfer of money from…… MORE
WALTON COUNTY TWINS DELIVERED
The Walton County Sheriff’s Office says deputies and first responders from Walton County Fire Rescue and the DeFuniak Springs Fire Department were dispatched to a home on Orson Drive to aid a 25-year-old woman who was in labor. With help from the first responders, the woman gave birth to a baby boy at 4 p.m.…… MORE
ESCAMBIA COUNTY LAWNMOWER ACCIDENT
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said a man, working for a lawn service, was severely injured yesterday when a lawnmower turned over on top of him. It happened in Ensley on Mozingo Lane off Airway Drive, south of Nine Mile Road. The man was trapped underneath the mower and was transported by ambulance to a…… MORE
ESCAMBIA COUNTY SCHOOL BUS COLLISION
The Florida Highway Patrol says there were only minor injuries when a car rear-ended a school bus on Lillian Highway west of 65th Avenue. A car, driven by 40-year-old Kacey Kolek, rear ended another car driven by 48-year-old Eric Reed, which then collided with the rear of the School Bus. There were no students on…… MORE
SANTA ROSA COUNTY TRAFFIC FATALITY IDENTIFIED
The Florida Highway Patrol has identified the Alabama man who died after a traffic crash in Santa Rosa County last Friday. Troopers say 55-year-old John Hobson, of Spanish Fort, was westbound on Interstate 10 near mile marker 39 in Santa Rosa County went off the road and overturned. He was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital…… MORE
