Florida gas prices have declined slightly. While they have gone done an average of four cents last week, the Triple “A” Auto Club says the state average could easily rise this week because of recent gains in wholesale gasoline. Florida drivers are paying an average price of $2.71 per gallon at the pump and Sunday’s…… MORE
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BAY BRIDGE TRAFFIC CRASH VICTIMS ID’d
Pensacola Police have identified the person who died and the three people who were seriously injured in an early morning crash Thursday on the Three Mile Bridge. Police say 50-year-old Kimberly Story, of Pensacola, was driving north in the southbound lane when her car collided with one driven by 21-year-old Kareem Terry from Canton, Georgia.…… MORE
GAETZ WILL NOT RUN FOR ALABAMA SENATE SEAT
The Pensacola News Journal is reporting that Congressman Matt Gaetz is saying he is not planning to run against Alabama U.S. Senator Doug Jones in 2020. The Hill, a website that covers Capitol Hill, said Gaetz told them other people have mentioned Alabama’s short residency requirement, but it’s not something he’s looked at himself. Alabama…… MORE
SANTA ROSA SHERIFF’S SWAT CALL-OUT
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team was called out to a double-wide mobile home Friday morning after a man armed with a bat barricaded himself inside the mobile home with woman and refused to come out after a domestic dispute. Department spokesman Sergeant Rich Aloy said Deputies negotiated with the man for an…… MORE
SHOTS FIRED AFTER FOOTBALL GAME
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office says a minor league football game in Century in North Escambia County ended in a brawl and with at least three shots being fired on the football field. The Tri-City Venom of the Amateur to Professional Development Football League had just lost 33-6 to the Greater Pensacola Jets at Anthony…… MORE
BAY COUNTY SHOOTING INVESTIGATION
A quadruple shooting Thursday in Bay County remains under investigation. Panama City Police have declined to identify the victims, but say one victim was pronounced dead on scene, while three others were transported with life-threatening injuries. Police say the shooter and the victims were known to each other and it was not a random act.…… MORE
UNPAID AMBULANCE BILLS
The Escambia County Commission has voted to write off 5.9 million dollars in uncollected fees for its ambulance service. The 12,760 accounts go back to 2005. Emergency Services is operated as an enterprise fund, which means its 24 million-dollar budget is paid by user-fees. Mike Weaver, public safety director, said the county writes off about…… MORE
RELIGIOUS ACTIVIST ACQUITTED
A local religious freedom activist and Satanist, has been acquitted of trespassing and resisting arrest at an Emerald Coast Utilities Authority board meeting. David Suhor, a member of the West Florida Chapter of The Satanic Temple, was arrested in February 2018 when he attempted to deliver the Lord’s Prayer before the start of an ECUA…… MORE
NURSING HOME VERDICT
A Circuit Court jury has awarded $200,000 to the children of a woman who died after a fall at a Pensacola nursing home. In April of 2012, 78-year-old Bertha Davis fell at the Pensacola Health Care Facility, and died four days later from bleeding in her brain. Her three children filed a civil lawsuit against…… MORE
FLORIDA HOUSE MARIJUANA BILL
A proposal in the Florida House of Representatives would limit the levels of Tetra-hydro-cannabinol, or THC, in smokable medical marijuana at 10 percent. THC is the substance that produces the high in marijuana. Ray Rodrigues, Chairman of the House Health & Human Services Committee, said studies have found that found high levels of THC were…… MORE
