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LOCAL SCHOOL PROTESTS
Escambia County School district officials say four Pensacola High School students – Three freshmen and one junior – walked out of the school yesterday to protest gun laws in the wake of th...
Syndicated Author Mar 15, 2018
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...
Syndicated Author 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 ...
Syndicated Author 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 ...
Syndicated Author 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 ...
Syndicated Author 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...
Syndicated Author 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...
Syndicated Author 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...
Syndicated Author 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 ...
Syndicated Author 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...
Syndicated Author Mar 12, 2018