A special CivicCon virtual town hall will be held at 6 p.m. today. Leaders from three Pensacola-area health care facilities will discuss how they are dealing with the new surge of COVID-19 cases and how the community can help. They include Mark Faulkner, president and CEO of Baptist Health Care; Dawn Rudolph, president of Ascension…… MORE
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PENSACOLA DOESN’T MAKE SPACE COMMAND CUT
Pensacola will not be the home to the new headquarters for U.S. Space Command. The only site in Florida that made the final six is Patrick Air Force Base in Brevard County. The other five locations still being considered are Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado; Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico; Redstone Arsenal,…… MORE
STRANDED SPERM WHALE
The Dauphin Island Sea Lab says a 35-foot sperm whale was reported stranded in Mobile Bay yesterday. The Alabama Marine Mammal Stranding Network, including the network veterinarian and biologists, are tending to the animal and monitoring its condition, but the prognosis is poor. The public is urged to keep their distance and not to fly…… MORE
FLORIDA LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES
The State of Florida will allow residents of long-term care facilities to leave those facilities to celebrate Thanksgiving. While residents will be screened prior to returning to their facility, testing will not be required. The Federal Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recommended against residents leaving for the holidays.…… MORE
THANKSGIVING RETAIL CLOSINGS
More than a dozen retailers have announced they will close for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. The stores include Target and Walmart, as well as several other national specialty chains. They include: Academy Sports + Outdoors Bath & Body Works Bed Bath & Beyond Best Buy BJ’s Wholesale Club Dick’s Sporting Goods Foot Locker GameStop Home…… MORE
COVIDE-19 UPDATE
The Florida Department of Health says the state added 9,085 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, which brings the state’s total to 914,333. There were also 81 new deaths bringing the state’s death toll to 18,030. Escambia County had 148 new cases and 3 new deaths Santa Rosa County had 99 new cases Okaloosa County had 116…… MORE
NO GULF BREEZE – PENSACOLA FERRY SERVICE
The Florida Department of Transportation says it will not fund a temporary ferry service between Gulf Breeze and Pensacola. FDOT said that the agency has determined the ferry service is not financially viable based on the number of people who would use it. That means drivers will have to continue to use the Garcon Point…… MORE
DELAYED TRAFFIC FATALITY
The Florida Highway Patrol says a 30-year-old woman has died after rear-ending a stopped garbage truck Tuesday morning on Highway 29. Troopers say Monica Oglesby, crashed into the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority truck as it was stopped on Highway 29 near Archer Road to pick up a garbage can. She was airlifted to a Pensacola…… MORE
CHILD NEGLECT ARREST
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Department says a 36-year-old Pensacola man has been arrested on child neglect charges after he was found asleep behind the wheel of his car with two small children in the backseat. Deputies said Brian Holtman’s car was parked at a gas pump at a Circle K and he was passed out…… MORE
AIRCRAFT CRASH LAWSUIT
An aircraft maintenance contractor was found not liable in the 2014 death of a civilian Department of Defense pilot who crashed in the Gulf during a flight out of Tyndall Air Force Base. 58-year-old Matthew LaCourse, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, was working as a civilian F-16 jet pilot with the 82nd Aerial Targets…… MORE
