Someone is over $179,000 richer this morning after purchasing a winning Florida Lottery Fantasy 5 ticket at the State Line Gift Shop on Highway 97, in Davisville in north Escambia County. It was the only winning ticket sold for Sunday night’s drawing and is worth $179,443.81. The 273 tickets matching four numbers won $106 each.…… MORE
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CHILD MURDER CASE FOLLOW-UP
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has released more information about the murder of a 3-year-old child last Friday in Niceville. Frederick Franken Jr. was found dead from multiple stab wounds in his home. The boy’s father, 61-year-old Frederick Franken Sr., was found beside the boy with multiple self-inflicted stab wounds. The toddler was pronounced dead…… MORE
PLANE FROM PANAMA CITY CRASHES
Two people were killed after a twin-engine jet – that had departed from Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport in Panama City – crashed as it attempted to land at a small airport in northwest Oklahoma City yesterday. The Oklahoma City Fire Department said the corporate jet crashed shortly before 4 p.m. Monday at the Sundance…… MORE
FATAL CHILD ABUSE SENTENCE
A 66-year-old woman, convicted of killing a child by sitting on her as a form of punishment, has been sentenced to life in prison. On October 14th, 2017, the 320-pound Posey sat on her niece, 9-year-old Dericka Lindsay, in what was said to be an effort to get the girl under control. However, the child…… MORE
FLORIDA GAS PRICES
Florida gas prices keep going up. Prices increased an average of 15 cents per gallon last week in the Sunshine State, the second-largest weekly increase among any other state in the country. Only Kentucky had a bigger increase at 16 cents a gallon. Florida drivers are paying an average price of $2.62 per gallon for…… MORE
FATAL STABBING ARREST
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Department says a man has been arrested for a fatal stabbing. It happened Friday afternoon in the 1000 block of Trammel Boulevard near Diamond Dairy Road off Highway 29. The victim was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead and 39-year-old Michael Gant was charged with homicide…… MORE
OKALOOSA COUNTY FATAL FALL
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said a Missouri man is dead after falling from a Destin condominium Saturday night. A security guard found the body of Justin Trepanier from Millersville, Missouri, at the complex, in the 1000-block of East Highway 98, around 5 a.m. It appeared he had fallen from a balcony onto a pool…… MORE
MID-BAY BRIDGE REPAIRS
Starting tonight the Mid-Bay Bridge in Okaloosa County will be closed for several hours for repairs. In January an inspection found several corroded cables, which will have to be replaced. The bridge will be closed to all traffic between 11 p.m. tonight and 5 a.m. Tuesday, but completely replacing the corroded cables is expected to…… MORE
JACKSON COUNTY TRAFFIC FATALITY
The Florida Highway Patrol Panama City resident died in a weekend traffic crash. Troopers said 30-year-old Tavares Holland, was traveling north on Highway 231 near Highway 2 in Jackson County, and collided with a vehicle driven by 44-year-old Benjamin Albins from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Albins and three other people in the car suffered minor injuries. Holland…… MORE
PLANE MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING
A plane at Pensacola International Airport had to make a belly landing yesterday morning when its landing gear malfunctioned. The pilot of a BAC-167 Strike Master, a small two-man jet, notified air traffic control that he had an unsafe landing gear indicator and tower personnel confirmed the landing gear was not down so the pilot…… MORE
