THE DAM BREAKS Saturday, July 11 FATHER AND SON INTERVIEWED Around 3 p.m. Leonard and Patrick Gonzalez arrived at the ECSO. Sgt. Hoard meets them in the rear parking lot. The CNN…
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Billings case: Saturday, July 11
HUNT FOR RED VAN Saturday, July 11 On Friday, Deputy Greg Smith of Baldwin County, Alabama contacted the ECSO. Investigator Hardy followed up on the call. Smith discovered on Sunday, July 5…
Irony in photos
From Sharenator.org. Enjoy! Here is the link to Internet irony at its best.
Billings case: Friday, July 10 – part 2
FAMILY TIES Friday, July 10 While Sheriff Morgan is holding his press conference, Investigator Lee Tyree is speaking with Kristyn Billings in one of the interview rooms. Kristyn, who graduated from Pine…
Arts Council ran on artists’ credit cards
The IN has obtained more financial reports of the Arts Council of Northwest Florida. The October 2009 Profit & Loss report that was given to the Board of Directors showed that the…
Wow, St. Pete Times can investigate
The St. Petersburg Times is the best newspaper in the state. They have put together an amazingly in-depth investigative package on Scientology leader David Miscavige. Former executives of the Church of Scientology,…
Free TV could vanish
The battle in Santa Rosa County between Mediacom and Sinclair/WEAR TV is being played out across the country between ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS affiliates and cable companies. “Good programing is expensive,”…
Site visits and page views are up!
The new blog rules have not impacted the traffic to the website. The visits are up 26.7 percent over last week and the page views are up 34.3 percent over last month….
Billings recap: Friday, July 10
IT HASN’T SUNKEN IN Friday, July 10 The Pensacola News Journal reports on its front page that “a Beulah couple who adopted 12 children and owned several local businesses were found shot…
Billings recap: Later Thursday, July 9
FAMILY FEUDS Investigator Terry Hardy arrives on the crime scene at 9:05 p.m. Sgt. Rusty Hoard has been named the lead on the case. Hardy, Tyree and Guy are to assist him….
Race for Containers
The Panama Canal is expanding—a $5.25 billion project– to all allow the largest container ships to cut through to the eastern side of North America and, according to AP, may cut into…
Valentino to back new arts group
According to today’s PNJ, Commissioner Gene Valentino will introduce a resolution at the BOCC’s Jan. 7 meeting to cease funding the Arts Council of Northwest Florida and will instead support giving the…
Top 20 Viral Videos of 2009
Sun-Sentinel put this list together. This one is my favorite: View the entire list.
50 things we learned in 2009
The Tampa Tribune publishes each year 50 Things we know now that we didn’t know this time last year. Here is one that caught my attention: Grumpy people think more clearly because…
Cool Chart for ’00s
As only the New York Times can do: see for yourself.
Billings case recap: Early Thursday Evening, July 9
I’ve been reviewing the various reports on the home invasion and murder of Byrd and Melanie Billings and have put together a narrative of the first eights days of the case, including…
Buzz: Nothing on credit cards
The county audit of the Arts Council of Northwest Florida didn’t cover the credit cards the group processed for local artists. We are still get emails and calls on people owed as…
P’cola White Squirrels make NYT
NYT Science Q&A: There are an incredible number of white squirrels living here in Pensacola, Fla., on the Gulf Coast. Are they albinos? How would it be genetically possible to have so…
Murzin weighs in on Sinclair-Mediacom spat
Chairman Julius Genachowski Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W., Room 8-B201 Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: Mediacom v. Sinclair Retransmission Consent Dispute Dear Chairman Genachowski, I am concerned that Sinclair Broadcast Group…
Former Pensacolian fights for victims
The New York Post has an article about NY State trooper Sayeh Rivazfar de rives crusade against sex offenders. She is pushing for push for a NY state law allowing authorities to…