The elderly man who was severely burned in a Warrington house fire Christmas night has died. The family has identified him as Ronnie Owens, who was in a wheelchair. He was found on the floor near the front door of the home, in the 900 block of Rentz Avenue off Gulf Beach Highway Tuesday around…… MORE
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COCAINE SMUGGLER TO BE SENTENCED
A sentencing date has now been set for a decorated soldier who confessed to his part in trying to bring more than a million dollars’ worth of cocaine from Colombia to the United States through Eglin Air Force Base. The Drug Enforcement Administration received a tip that Army Master Sergeant Daniel Gould was attempting to…… MORE
FLORIDA MINIMUM WAGE GOING UP
As of yesterday Florida’s minimum wage is now $8.46 an hour up from $8.25 an hour. The minimum wage for tipped employees is now at least $5.44 an hour, up from $5.23 an hour. In 2004 Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment establishing a state minimum wage that is higher than the federal minimum wage.…… MORE
CHRISTMAS TREE DISPOSAL
All ECUA sanitation collections in Escambia County which includes garbage, recycling and yard trash, will be made one day later than normal this week due to the New Year’s holiday. And if you are looking to get rid of a Christmas tree, ECUA customers in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties may place real (not artificial)…… MORE
PENSACOLA DEATH INVESTIGATION
Pensacola Police say the death of a baby at Pensacola Village Apartments over the weekend is being investigated. Police responded to the apartment complex at 500 East Fairfield Drive around 2:30 p.m. Saturday where they found a 1-year-old boy dead. No other details have been released, including whether or not the death is considered suspicious.…… MORE
TURTLE EGG THIEF CHARGED
A man from Georgia has been charged in Federal Court with stealing the two turtle eggs in Gulf Shores, Alabama, last July. Kelly Ard from Social Circle, Georgia, is charged with violating the Federal Endangered Species Act. Ard was identified as the man seen in surveillance video at Crystal Shores East Condominiums with the eggs…… MORE
ATTEMPTED CAR-JACKING ARREST
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Department says a Pensacola man has been arrested for an attempted carjacking at Pensacola Beach on Christmas Eve. The victim told deputies that she was stopped at a stop sign when Nicholas Burke opened her passenger door, got in, and asked if she was an Uber driver. She said she was…… MORE
GAS PRICES STILL DECLINING
Gasoline prices may have their lowest start in the New Year since 2016. In Escambia County, prices have now fallen below $2.00 per gallon at several stations, including $1.97 Friday in Cantonment. Statewide, drivers are finding gas prices below $2.00 a gallon at about 7 percent of gas stations. Since mid-October, the state average has declined…… MORE
COAST GUARD TO BE PAID
As the partial government shutdown begins its second week the Coast Guard has announced it had found a way to pay its 42,000 members including the more than 200 men and women stationed at the Pensacola Naval Air Station Pensacola. Coast Guard members could have missed their first paycheck of January, but the Department of…… MORE
FHP DRUG ARREST
The Florida Highway Patrol says a 44-year-old Pensacola man was arrested after troopers found cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, pills and drug paraphernalia in his vehicle during a traffic stop. Troopers stopped Martego Clark for speeding on Pine Forest Road, searched the vehicle and found the illegal drugs. Clark was arrested and booked into the Escambia County…… MORE
