The State Attorney’s Office will not seek the death penalty against Mary Rice, the companion of multiple murderer Billy Boyette. Rice has been charged with murder and accessory after the fact, but State Attorney Bill Eddins said the decision was made after prosecutors reviewed Rice’s case after the Florida Legislature earlier this month passed a bill changing the…… MORE
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TATE COACH ARRESTED 3-30-17
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Department says a former Tate High School football coach and church leader has been arrested on multiple child sex offenses that occurred from 1997 to 2016. 54-year-old Charlie Hamrick, is facing numerous felonies including 36 counts of capital sexual assault on a victim under 12. Hamrick was the director of a boy’s…… MORE
ESCAMBIA COUNTY HEALTH RANKING 3-30-17
Researchers with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, who compile an annual list of county health rankings say Escambia County came in 58th of Florida’s 67 counties. The report looked at a lot of different factors like premature deaths, smoking, obesity, STD infections and unemployment in counties in every state. Santa Rosa County ranked 7th and…… MORE
SEXUAL ASSAULTER ARRESTED 3-30-17
A senior at Baker High School has been arrested for sexually assaulting an underage girl at the school. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Department says it happened in a bathroom during a track meet at the school earlier this month. The girl told investigators she agreed to go into the bathroom with 18-year-old Oakley Kimbrel, but…… MORE
SRIA OFFICE HOURS 3-30-17
The Customer Service Office for the Bob Sikes Toll Plaza at the Santa Rosa Island Authority Office on Pensacola Beach will soon be open on Saturday. Starting April 22nd. The additional hours will accommodate the greater number of annual passes being purchased due to the recent reduction in cost. The office is located inside the…… MORE
PROPERTY TAX DEADLINE 3-29-17
Escambia County Tax Collector Scott Lunsford reminds Escambia County property owners that unpaid real estate and tangible property taxes are delinquent after April 1st. After that date penalties of three percent for real estate taxes and one and one-half percent for tangible taxes will be assessed. Over 29 million dollars, representing approximately 10-percent of the…… MORE
CITY-COUNTY GAS TAX AGREEMENT 3-29-17
The city of Pensacola and Escambia County have agreed on the distribution of Local Option Gas Tax money. In past years, the city of Pensacola has received18 percent of the Gas Tax revenue, but last year the county proposed cutting the city’s share to about 7 percent, a decrease of nearly $700,000. annually. The city appealed…… MORE
WALL SOUTH NAMES ADDED 3-29-17
140 names will be added to the Wall South Vietnam War Memorial at the Veterans Memorial Park in Pensacola today. Retired Navy Captain Butch Hansen, president of the Veterans Memorial Park Foundation, said the names of the military members will be etched into the memorial at 3 p.m. this afternoon. The public is invited to attend…… MORE
CHARGES AGAINST CAMP COUNSELOR DROPPED 3-28-17
Charges against one of three camp counselors arrested in a child abuse case involving a child with autism earlier this month, have been dropped. Pensacola Police arrested Rose James, Kemon Johnson and Jarrett Clifton for cruelty to a child. According to arrest reports, surveillance video showed Johnson threatening a 12-year-old boy with a metal stick,…… MORE
NAVARRE SHOOTING FOLLOW-UP 3-28-17
More details are available about last week’s shooting in Navarre. The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Department said 20-year-old Jonalbert Vidal was arrested and booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail with no bond. Investigators say he and Cody Gomez, were at the victim’s house on Shoreview Court in Navarre, trying to buy marijuana when the…… MORE
