The 22-year-old Milton mother and her 3-year-old daughter who were reported missing Sunday have been found safe. Milton Police located Michaela Aldridge and her daughter Katelyna around 3:30 yesterday afternoon. Aldridge and her daughter disappeared on Sunday after she took Katelyna for a walk. Her family started to worry when she didn’t come back after a…… MORE
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RING THIEF ARRESTED 4-13-17
A Pensacola waiter has been arrested for trying to sell a $2,900 diamond ring, lost by a customer. The 39-year-old Pensacola woman told police she was eating at a local restaurant on April 2nd and believed the ring fell off her hand after she put lotion on her hands. The offer to sell the ring appeared online…… MORE
MISING WOMAN AND CHILD 4-12-17
The Milton Police Department is investigating the disappearance of a 22-year-old Milton woman and her child. Family members say they haven’t heard from Michaela Aldridge since Sunday when she left her to go on a walk with her 3-year-old daughter around 7:45 a.m. Around 1:15 p.m. family members got a text from her saying she…… MORE
SEAL DEATH LAWSUIT 4-12-17
The family of a Crestview Navy SEAL trainee who died during a pool exercise in San Diego, has filed lawsuits against the government and a training instructor. Seaman James Lovelace died last May during that training. The Navy SEAL program is six months long but 75 percent of candidates drop out in the first month.…… MORE
UWF CYBER RECOGNITION 4-12-17
The National Security Agency has named the University of West Florida as the National Academic of Excellence Cybersecurity Regional Resource Center for the Southeastern region. UWF will receive a nearly $200,000 grant and will serve as the Regional Resource Center for all institutions of higher education in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Puerto…… MORE
NO SOUTHERN ROUTE FOR HIGHWAY 90 4-12-17
The Milton City Council has given up plans to seek a southern route for Highway 90 after community members protested. Yesterday the council voted 4-3 to remove a request that the Florida Department of Transportation study a southern alternate route as an option for the future of Highway 90. FDOT said a more southern route…… MORE
ARMED ROBBERY SUSPECT SOUGHT 4-10-17
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Department is still looking for a man that held up the Dodge’s Store on 9 Mile Road at gunpoint on Sunday, April 2nd. On 3:30 a.m. the white male suspect walked into the store, pointed a handgun at the clerk and demanded money. Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to…… MORE
COMMISSIONER MAY TOWN HALL MEETING 4-10-17
Tomorrow, Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May will hold a town hall meeting to discuss the homeless issue at Brentwood Children’s Park. Local business people say the park has become a popular spot for homeless because the Alfred-Washburn Homeless Center is down the street and area churches and other organizations drop off sack lunches. That has…… MORE
VA PROGRAM EXTENDED 4-10-17
Veteran Affairs health benefits have been extended to more than 142,000 veterans living in rural Alabama. The action is being taken as an extension of a federal program to allow vets living more than a certain distance from a VA facility to seek private medical care outside of the Department of Veteran Affairs. The program…… MORE
DELTA FLIGHT DELAYS 4-10-17
Thousands of travelers – including some flying into and out of Pensacola on Delta Airlines – have been affected by flight cancellations and delays. On Wednesday, severe weather in the southeastern part of the United States disrupted flights at Delta’s biggest and busiest hub in Atlanta. Then on Saturday, at least 275 flights were cancelled,…… MORE
