The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said six types of fish are being removed from its list of overfished stocks, including the commercially fished stocks of Gulf of Mexico red snapper. The NOAA Fisheries report says 35 kinds of fish out of 235 are overfished, which is the lowest number since the agency started tracking…… MORE

The Pensacola Police Department says one person shot at the Fricker Center in the 900 block of North “F” Street last night around 8:30pm. Pensacola Police spokesman Office Mike Wood, said suspects in two vehicles began shooting at each other and another suspect near the corner of “E” and Strong fired at the two vehicles.…… MORE

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed a civil suit accusing five of the nation’s largest opioid manufacturers and four drug distributors of causing the opioid crisis that is killing an estimated 15 Floridians a day. Bondi predicted that any settlement with the defendants could be in the billions of dollars. Five other states also filed…… MORE

A South Florida appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of a controversial change to the state’s Stand Your Ground self-defense law. In that decision the 3rd District Court of Appeal disagreed with a Miami-Dade County circuit judge, who ruled that a legislative change was unconstitutional because it violated the separation of powers. the 2017 change…… MORE

A local broadcasting legend has died. Gordon Towne passed away at the age of 90. He joined WCOA, Pensacola’s oldest radio station, in 1963 as a morning disc jockey replacing Ted Cassidy who would go on to even bigger fame, portraying Lurch on “The Addams Family”. Towne would eventually become WCOA’s general manager and spent…… MORE