Escambia County Tax Collector Scott Lunsford is encouraging taxpayers to take advantage of the Tax Payment Installment Plan. The plan will allow taxpayers to make four quarterly payments instead of one lump sum payment. Lunsford said the installment program not only helps ease the financial burden on taxpayers by allowing them to spread out the…… MORE
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PPD OFFICER ATTACKED 3-6-17
A Pensacola Police Officer was attacked while responding to a call on Interstate-110 Saturday night. Assistant Chief Tommi Lyter said 25-year-old Brandon Lintner was walking down I-110 at the Maxwell Street ramp when an officer stopped to question him. Lintner pushed the officer into oncoming traffic, then jumped off the interstate, landing about 35 to…… MORE
SCHOOL TEACHERS WANTED 3-6-17
The Escambia County School District is looking for teachers. School Superintendent Malcolm Thomas said the District has set up a website to serve as an online screening process for an invitation-only hiring event to be held in late April. Times and a site for the hiring event will be disclosed to the potential candidates once…… MORE
DESTIN BALCONY COLLAPSE 3-2-17
Eleven people were hurt after a second-floor balcony collapsed at a Destin condominium yesterday afternoon. It happened around 4:30 p.m. during a party at the Sandpiper Cove. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Department said the out-of-state visitors suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Eight people were taken to area hospitals and the investigation is continuing.… MORE
BURGLAR KILLED 3-2-17
A Foley, Alabama business owner said he shot and killed an intruder who tried to force his way into his home with a pickaxe. Police say 20-year-old Sedrick Jemison was trying to break into Elite Marine in Foley when he was shot dead on Tuesday morning. The business is also where the owner lives. Foley…… MORE
MARDI GRAS PARADE CRASH FOLLOW-UP 3-2-17
Of the 12 Alabama students injured when struck by a car while waiting to march in the Gulf Shores Middle School over the weekend, nine have been released from the hospital. However, two students are still listed in critical condition at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola and the third, also in critical condition, is at…… MORE
WALTON COUNTY NARCOTICS ARREST 3-2-17
The Walton County Sheriff’s Department said a 27-year-old man was arrested on drug charges after a 2-year-old child was found unresponsive in his car during a traffic stop. Investigators pulled over the car for having a broken windshield and found a 23-month-old child in the back seat. The driver, Joshua Huckaba, admitted he was smoking…… MORE
CHURCH EMBEZZLER ARRESTED 3-2-17
Pensacola Police say a former secretary at the Greek Orthodox Church in Pensacola has been arrested for embezzling $105,000. The money was discovered missing after the secretary, Katherine Hamilton, quit her job in September. Police determined that more than 100 transfers from the church to one of Hamilton’s three personal accounts were made in 2015…… MORE
SANTA ROSA COUNTY COURTHOUSE SITE 3-2-17
District 1 Santa Rosa County Commissioner, Sam Parker, says he will propose a site for a future Santa Rosa County courthouse during Monday’s committee meeting in Milton. Parker wants to use donated land to build a new courthouse in the Pace/Pea Ridge area of his district. Parker said Pace businessman Edwin Henry has offered the…… MORE
BLUE ANGELS SCHEDULE 3-1-17
The Blue Angels have added an additional performance to their 2017 show schedule. They will perform at the New York Air Show at Stewart International Airport, about 60 miles north of New York City on July 1st and 2nd, a previously open date on the Blue Angels schedule. The team is now scheduled to perform…… MORE
