Hill-Kelly Dodge is denying claims made in a civil lawsuit that Malinda Fiveash, the president, CEO and majority shareholder of the dealership, as well as Hill-Kelly Dodge itself and HKD Properties, breached their fiduciary duties. Cheryl Green, a Tennessee woman who owns the minority stake in Hill-Kelly Dodge, filed the lawsuit and alleges that Fiveash…… MORE
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FOUND MONEY RETURNED
A Gulf Power service technician from Molino turned into a Good Sarmatian when he found a bank envelope full of cash and was able to return it to the rightful owner. Jeremy Davey, a 17-year service technician out of Gulf Power’s Pine Forest office, was responding to a service call when he saw the envelope…… MORE
LOCAL ACTRESS IN TV SERIES
Gulf Breeze native Abigail Spencer is starring in a new series for Hulu. “Reprisal” follows a woman seeking revenge against the gang that left her for dead. The pilot streamed as a movie on Hulu, and has now been picked up as a series. Spencer started acting in Northwest Florida while still a student at…… MORE
FLORIDA PRISON FUNDING
Florida’s prison system is facing financial challenges as a result of increased health-care costs. Court mandates require better treatment for inmates with Hepatitis C, mental illnesses and disabilities. Those issues, mixed with an aging prison population are driving up health costs. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is proposing a 120 million dollar increase to cover inmates’…… MORE
SANTA ROSA COUNTY DEATH INVESTIGATION
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating after a body was discovered Saturday morning at the Interstate-10 westbound rest area in Santa Rosa County. FHP spokesman Lieutenant Eddie Elmore said troopers arrived at the scene at mile marker 30 at about 10:30 a.m. after they were requested to check on a tractor-trailer. They entered the tractor…… MORE
BEULAH LAND OFFER
Escambia County has received another offer to purchase part of the Navy Outlying Field 8 property on Nine Mile Road, west of the Navy Federal Credit Union. Black Water Development Company of Birmingham has offered 1.1 million dollars for 15 acres with frontage on Nine Mile Road with plans to construct a commercial center that…… MORE
CHANGE TO COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The Escambia County Commission has approved the removal of part of the county comprehensive plan that would remove protections for agricultural and forestry lands, allowing them to be rezoned as rural communities. The commission approved the change on a 4-1 vote, with Commissioner Doug Underhill dissenting.… MORE
GULF WHALE SIGHTING
A whale has been seen in the Gulf, some sixty miles offshore. Fishermen saw a whale breaching, but it was not possible to determine what kind of whale it was from photographs. Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it was likely a Bryde’s whale, or a small fin whale. The whale came…… MORE
DESTIN COYOTE PROBLEM
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission said it is unlikely there will be an easy solution to the coyote problem around Destin. During a recent presentation at the Destin Community Center, FWC employee Catherine Kennedy said coyotes are very adaptable and intelligent and they are likely here to stay. She said they they have been…… MORE
95-YEAR-OLD ORGANIST RETIRING
Ruth Taylor Gray is retiring. If her name is not familiar, you probably don’t attend the First Baptist Church of DeFuniak Springs where she was the organist since the early 1980’s, but finally retired at the age of 95. She learned to play piano in the second grade, but didn’t learn to play the organ…… MORE
