Category: News
Gulf Power drops rates
The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) today voted to reduce the fuel and purchased power charge on Gulf Power Company (Gulf) customer bills. Gulf residential…
Wahoo game times set
All game times are now set for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos inaugural season. The standard game time for all Monday-Friday games is 7:00 p.m. Saturday…
Gupta and Vena named Sunshine STEM scholars
Preeyal Gupta of Pensacola High and Roman Vena of Pace High have been named among the Florida Panhandle’s highest achieving science, technology, engineering and mathematics…
BP faces fraud claims by investors
BP faces fraud claims by investors who said the company lied before and after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill about its accident response…
Buzz: Buddy’s owner pays liens
We’re hearing that the owners of Tom Ann Buddy’s, the site of frequent public disturbances and violence over the years, paid their nearly $40K lien….
FL Public Land Up For Grabs?
Source: Les Coleman/Florida News Connection Pending Florida legislation could convert some 500,000 acres of publicly owned shoreline into private ownership. Opponents, including Audubon Florida Director…
BP fines could go into federal black hole
Congress, even a Republican-controlled one, can’t control its avarice when it comes to billions that BP will have to pay in environmental fines for the…
Houston’s death not considered suspicious
Paramedics found singer Whitney Houston unresponsive in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel on the eve of the Grammy Awards. CBS News correspondent John…
Victor Steen’s death part of Orlando Sentinel report
The Orlando Sentinel has investigated the deaths caused by Florida law enforcement vehicles. From 2006 to 2010, 118 people were killed in fatal crashes involving…
BP won’t have to admit it’s a felon
BP, owner of the “Deepwater Horizon†oil platform that exploded April 20, 2010, killing 11 workers and spewing 205.8 million gallons of crude oil into…
Veterans Bill of Rights
A Veterans Bill of Rights petition is being circulated by Project Foot, a charity for homeless veterans and military families. The Veterans Bill of Rights…
Kudos to Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr and Smith
Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith (GJTBS) will celebrated 25 years of service to its clients on February 9, 2012. The Firm continues to grow…