State Attorney Bill Eddins announced yesterday that Joseph Borg was convicted by an Escambia County Jury of one count of Attempted Sexual Battery. The conviction stemmed from an incident that occurred at…
The ‘Make Us Whole’ Boat Ramps
How will we be ‘made whole’ following the 2010 oil spill? For starters, how about some boat ramps for $4.4 million? Over the next few weeks, the Gulf Coast public is being…
Arrest Log
The following suspects were charged with felonies at Escambia County Jail. Names, ages and addresses were provided by the individuals. Kenneth Calhoun, 28, 300 block of Calhoun Avenue, burglary, larceny. Tameeka Shelie…
Hall apologies. Let’s move to real issues
Poverty, health issues, failing schools, rampant crime, shootings…and the biggest issue for Occupy Pensacola, Rev. Nathan Monk and the Pensacola City Council is whether Sam Hall should apologize for cutting off Monk…
Bookies like Romney, bet win streak will continue
Europes largest betting company Paddy Power have installed Mitt Romney as 2/5 favourite for the South Carolina primary after the former Massachusetts Governor romped home to victory in the New Hampshire primary….
Insiders stacked advisory vote in favor of Yaz
The Project On Government Oversight has requested that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) disregard a joint advisory committee’s support of the controversial birth control pill Yaz because four members of the…
Commissioner’s Delay Tourism-tax Decision
The Escambia County Commission will wait until the summer to decide what governance model they’ll go with when it comes to tourism tax dollars. Presently, bed-tax money is spent through a collective…
Bergosh continues attacks on A.A. Dixon
Across the state, school boards and administrations work hard to help inner-city charter schools teach those students that the public schools have failed. They offer desks, equipment and even transportation to help…
Romney in Florida Today
Leading in the polls, Mitt Romney has skipped through South Carolina to campaign here today in West Palm. Â VIDEO A record turnout is being expected, the number of Republican absentee ballots requested…
Oil Spill Restoration Meeting
The second in a series of meetings to explore early oil-spill restoration will be held tonight at the University of West Florida. The Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Trustees are…
Florida Ranks 11 in 2012 Quality Counts Report
Education Week’s “Quality Counts 2012: The Global Challenge – Education in a Competitive World†released the results today and ranked Florida eleventh in the nation overall. The 2012 edition of the report…
Occupy the Courts
Occupy protesters will take to the courts again, Friday, Jan. 20 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Federal Courthouse located at 1 N. Palafox St. Â Over 80 courthouses, including the…
Year of the Dragon
The Japan-America Society of Northwest Florida will ring in the “Year of the Dragon†Saturday, Jan. 21 at the Bayview Community Center. The event will take place from 12 p.m. to 4…
Enterprise Florida sets its wish list for legislature
ORLANDO, FL (January 11, 2012) – The Enterprise Florida Board of Directors has identified the following as priorities to be presented to the Florida Legislature during its 2012 session, which began this…
Buzz: Hotel owners and Chamber to ask for delay
The Hotel owners who have been pushing for the tourism marketing and the management of the bed tax dollars to be taken away from the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce have reached an…
BP clean-up contractors say they are owed millions
Biloxi Sun Herald reports the companies that responded to the BP oil catastrophe claim that they are still fighting for payments due from the time the Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded in…
There’s an App for That
The National Naval Aviation Museum app is available to download from iTunes and the Android Market. The app will be a great source for information on the aircraft featured in the museum,…
Dude! Bogus!
From the Herald: Miami now enforcing an old anti-surfing law. Surfers to protest at today’s commission meeting. READ
SRIA vendetta against DeLuna Fest continues
The daily newspaper published on its front page what they describe as a dispute between the DeLuna Fest organizers and the Santa Rosa Island Authority over whether the tickets included sponsorship packages…
Area gets nearly $1 million for homeless
DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ANNOUNCES $72 MILLION IN GRANTS TO HELP HOMELESS ACROSS FLORIDA More than 300 local projects will be funded with federal grant money TALLAHASSEE – The Department of…
