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PRISON VISITATION BAN EXTENDED
The Florida Department of Corrections says the suspension of visitation at Florida prisons has been extended again, at least until July 15th. Inmates will continue to have access to their loved ones t...
Jun 30, 2020
MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SEASON CANCELLED
The 2020 Minor League Baseball season has been canceled. The announcement was made after Major League Baseball informed the minor league they will not be providing players for teams. The Blue Wahoos s...
Jun 30, 2020
FSU STATUE REMOVAL DEMANDED
An effort is underway to convince Florida State University's administration to remove a statue of Francis Eppes from the campus and his name from the building housing the College of Criminology and Cr...
Jun 30, 2020
MASK WEARING RECOMMENDED
Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson is recommending that Escambia and Santa Rosa counties require the use of masks by customers and employees of businesses outside the city limits of Pensacola, Milton and...
Jun 29, 2020
PETS PROTECTED IN COURT ORDERS
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill into law that includes family pets in domestic violence protective orders. That means Floridians fleeing households because of domestic violence can now...
Jun 29, 2020
STATE WORKERS GET PAY RAISE
Florida’s 90,000 state workers are getting a pay raise. The 249 million dollar pay-raise package covers all state workers, and also covers a 7% increase in health insurance premiums and pension ...
Jun 29, 2020
FLORIDA GAS PRICES
Florida gas prices increased by a penny last week, but a surge in COVID-19 cases is expected to keep prices down. The Triple "A" Auto Group says at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic fuel demand w...
Jun 29, 2020
DIVING ACCIDENT
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office says a 40-year-old man from Warner Robins, Georgia, was hospitalized over the weekend after diving off a pontoon boat on Crab Island in Destin. He was pulled...
Jun 29, 2020
NEW FIRE ENGINE
The Fort Walton Beach Fire Department has a new fire engine. City officials used $530,000 in half-cent sales tax money to pay for the new engine, which can pump 1,500 gallons of water per minute and c...
Jun 29, 2020
NO REOPENING OF PALAFOX MARKET
It is unlikely the Palafox Market likely will reopen in July as downtown leaders had hoped. Lissa Dees, executive director of the Downtown Improvement Board, said that because of a rise in cases of th...
Jun 25, 2020
