The State Attorney’s Office has completed its investigation of Century Mayor Henry Hawkins. Hawkins was accused of using town equipment and employees to do work on private property in an anonymous letter. Hawkins admitted to the town council that town resources had been used to dig up an old tank from the ground on property…… MORE
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PRESIDENT TRUMP RALLY TWITTER PICTURES
A controversy over the size of the crowd at the Pensacola Bay Center for the President Trump rally. Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel sent out a tweet which showed a sparse crowd in the arena sometime before the President arrived. The tweet gave the impression that only a small crowd was there, the Bay Center…… MORE
SNOW
Northwest Florida did get some snow early Saturday morning. Most of the snow was further inland with several inches falling in the northern parts of the panhandle. The last significant snowfall in the area was late January 1977, when temperatures dropped to 28 degrees with several inches of snow.… MORE
NORTH ESCAMBIA COUNTY TRAFFIC FATAL
The Florida Highway Patrol says Ice on a Highway 29 bridge in McDavid led to a three-vehicle traffic crash and claimed the life of a 73-year-old woman. The accident happened on the northbound Highway 29 bridge over Mitchell Creek, just north of the McDavid Fire Station about 7:45 a.m. Troopers say the driver of a…… MORE
HATCHERY LEASE
The Pensacola News Journal is reporting the city’s controversial leasing of Bruce Beach for a fish hatchery will again come before the Pensacola City Council this week. Mayor Ashton Hayward and Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn are co-sponsoring an item for Thursday’s City Council meeting called “clarification of Bruce Beach lease.” If approved, the measure would declare the…… MORE
FLORIDA TEXTING LEGISLATION
Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran wants to see texting while driving become a primary traffic offense. The legislation would allow law-enforcement officers to pull over motorists if they see them texting or emailing. Currently, texting while driving is a secondary offense, meaning officers can only charge motorists with texting violations during traffic stops for other…… MORE
FLORIDA GUN PROPOSALS D.O.A.
Although the 2018 Florida legislative session is still more than a month away, it looks as though gun-related measures may have died in the Senate because of actions by the Senate Judiciary Committee. That committee voted to reject proposals that would have allowed Floridians with concealed-weapons licenses to carry firearms up to the entrances of…… MORE
SCHOOL BUS TRAFFIC CRASH
The Florida Highway Patrol said no students were injured yesterday morning when a pick-up truck collided with a school bus in McDavid in North Escambia County. Seven students from Ernest Ward Middle School in Walnut Hill and Northview High School in Century, were on the Escambia County School District bus at the time of the crash, but none…… MORE
DRUG MURDERER CONVICTED
A man convicted of killing a Santa Rosa County couple in 2014 is now awaiting trial in Bay County for another murder. 45-year-old Derrick Tompson convicted of fatally shooting Milton residents 60-year-old Steven Zackowski, and Debra Zackowski, in July 2014 so he could steal pain pills from them. The body of former Bay County Sheriff’s…… MORE
PRESIDENT TRUMP VISIT
Downtown Pensacola may see serious traffic delays today and tonight when President Trump arrives for his rally at the Pensacola Bay Center. The Florida Highway Patrol says the Interstate 110 exit at Cervantes Street and all on-ramps and exits south of Cervantes will be closed from 1 to 9 p.m. Friday for security reasons. The White…… MORE
