Early voting begins Saturday in Escambia County at nine locations and will continue through Saturday, August 15th. Each location will be open from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m., with the exception of the Supervisor of Elections Office which will be open 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. The locations include: The Molino Community Center on Highway…… MORE
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EMMITT SMITH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
NFL hall of famer and Pensacola native Emmitt Smith will likely be involved with the further development of the former Emerald Coast Utilities Authority property that is now owned by Studer Properties. Studer Properties selected a joint proposal from The Dawson Company and Emmitt Smith Enterprises to build a 234-unit mixed-income apartments on the former…… MORE
SANTA ROSA COUNTY SCHOOL CHOICE DEADLINE
This Friday, August 7th, is the deadline for families in Santa Rosa County to decide if they want their children to return to school, take virtual courses, or attend remote classes with a teacher. The original deadline was Monday, but the district extended it until the end of the week to give parents more time…… MORE
BAY COUNTY OVERDOSES
The Bay County Sheriff’s Office says a recent rise in accidental deaths and overdoses may be caused by a new, powerful narcotic. The Sheriff’s Office says the unknown substance has caused accidental overdose deaths, the latest on Monday. Although the victim was a known drug user, it remains unclear what illegal narcotic resulted in the…… MORE
NEW DESTIN PARK
The new Captain Leonard Destin Park at 101 Calhoun Avenue is now under city ownerthe ship. The 3.4-acre park overlooks Choctawhatchee Bay and the land for the park was purchased with 10 million dollars settlement money from the 2010 BP oil spill through nonprofit Trust for Public Land. The Trust will also give an additional…… MORE
MORE CENTURY INMATES TEST POSITIVE
The Florida Department of Corrections says two more inmates at Century Correctional Institution have tested positive for COVID-19, which brings the total cases to six. The number of staff members testing positive remained at 20. Three inmates are in medical isolation, and the number of prisoners on medical quarantine increased to 391. Inmates in quarantine…… MORE
COVID-19 UPDATE
The Florida Department of Health says there were no new COVID-19 deaths recorded in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa or Walton counties yesterday. Escambia County has 92 new cases on Sunday, for a total of 8,007 – Santa Rosa County recorded 55 new cases for a total of 3,954 cases – Okaloosa County had 81 new…… MORE
SPACE X LANDS SAFELY NEAR PENSACOLA
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico South of Pensacola just before 2pm yesterday after a test flight by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. SpaceX launched May 30th from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Their capsule safely parachuted into the Gulf. Hurley was the pilot of NASA’s last space shuttle…… MORE
PENSACOLA FATAL SHOOTING
Pensacola Police say a 7-year-old girl was shot and killed at a house in the 600 block of North “B Street. She was identified Aniyah Nettles and was found on the front porch. Police say the Nettles may have been shot by another small child. One person has been detained after he was found hiding…… MORE
FATAL TRAFFIC CRASH
The Florida Highway Patrol says a man was killed in a traffic crash after a high-speed chase that started in Bay Minette, Alabama and ended with the crash in Escambia County Florida. The Bay Minette Police Department received a report of a stolen pick-up truck from the Pep gas station on Highway 31 and a…… MORE
