Over 21,000 Gulf Power customers lost power across Escambia County Saturday night, most in the Cantonment area where the power went out during the eight o’clock hour and was restored before going out again. Most had their power restored by 10 p.m. Gulf Power did not provide a reason for the outage. … MORE
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FORMER GOVERNOR DIES
A man who served as Florida’s governor for just three days has died. In 1987 Wayne Mixon was Florida’s 39th governor, from January 3 to January 6 after then-Governor Bob Graham stepped down to take a seat in the United State Senate. Mixson served the three days until governor-elect Bob Martinez was sworn in. Mixson…… MORE
COVID-19 CASES
The Florida Department of Health says Florida set a new one-day record with 15,300 new COVID-19 cases. It is the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases in any one state since the beginning of the pandemic. Florida is now up to 269,811 total cases with 4,346 deaths, 104 of them being non-Florida residents. Escambia County…… MORE
BLUE ANGELS AIR SHOW CANCELLED
The 2020 Pensacola Beach Air Show has been cancelled. It was originally scheduled for July 8-11, but the Blue Angels told the Santa Rosa Island Authority they were cancelling their performance because of the rise in COVID-19 cases. The Pensacola Beach Chamber of Commerce has also canceled its Fourth of July “Fireworks at the Beach”…… MORE
PROTESTOR ARRESTED
The Pensacola Police Department says the Black Lives Matter protester who was carried across the Pensacola Bay Bridge on the hood of an SUV back on June the 7th, has been arrested. After an investigation, 36-year-old Jason Uphaus was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief, according to PPD spokesman Mike Wood. As a group…… MORE
MILTON POLICE SHOOTING RULED JUSTIFIABLE
State Attorney Bill Eddins says a shooting by a Milton Police Department officer on March 2nd has been ruled justifiable. Brandon McCloud was shot by Sergeant Dwayne Smith behind the Santa Rosa County Federal Credit Union after McCloud robbed the credit union at gunpoint. Sergent Smith pursued McCloud on foot and ordered him to stop…… MORE
FLORIDA MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS EXTENDED
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has extended a moratorium on evictions that will help renters struggling to keep up with their payments. Without the extension, thousands of Floridians would have faced becoming homeless. This is the second time Governor DeSantis has extended the moratorium since he first put it in place on April 2nd. The moratorium…… MORE
OPERATION DRY WATER
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says they will be educating boaters about safe boating practices over the Fourth of July holiday weekend as part of “Operation Dry Water.” That will include boating sober and enforcing Florida’s boating under the influence laws. The goal is to reduce the number of alcohol and drug-related accidents…… MORE
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT VANDALIZED
Pensacola police say the Confederate Monument in downtown Pensacola was vandalized. Vandals spray-painted “Your Confederate Dead” on one side of the monument and threw a bucket of red paint on another side. A four-man cleanup crew from the city used a power washer to remove the red paint from the Monument. The Pensacola City Council…… MORE
JET SKI FATALITY IDENTIFIED
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has identified the woman who died after a collision of two jet skis Saturday night in Santa Rosa Sound. 21-year-old Melly Johannes, of Brandon, Mississippi, was pronounced dead at Baptist Hospital following the crash. Johannes was riding on a jet ski with 28-year-old Ebrahim Alshatabbi, also of Mississippi,…… MORE
