Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi – The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron started flying into Hurricane Michael Sunday and over the next four days observed it intensify from a possible tropical depression to a Category 4 storm, which made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Spectre Post 11367 and its Auxiliary presented a check for $43,000 to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation Sept. 22. Members of the post in Mary Esther have been fundraising for the foundation for seven years.
Board directors at United Way of Santa Rosa have told the Milton-based charity’s outside auditor to assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which began looking into the organization’s finances earlier this month.
Towing the cars of TC’s Front Porch patrons who park across the street from the restaurant will be stopped based on county policy, at least on the county-owned right of way.
Navarre Beach Fishing Pier operations are embroiled in a legal dispute following maneuvers by four of members of management company Growing Santa Rosa Enterprises LLC (GSRE) to remove managing member Kenneth Fountain.
Hurricane Michael will go down in history as one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the United States since Hurricane Andrew and is the strongest to hit the Panhandle of Florida ever. The Category 4 storm spun up so fast that weather forecasters had little time to get the forecast right. But early on the prediction models agreed that at some point the hurricane would take an eastward turn as it headed north in the Gulf. The question was when and where.
The election campaign for mayor of Gulf Breeze heated up with an ethics complaint filed last Friday against Patty Burke, who is challenging Mayor Pro Tem David Landfair.
Four inmates were found guilty Oct. 11 of attacking three Santa Rosa Correctional Institute officers on New Year’s Day, meaning potential prison sentences exceeding 100 years for two of the perpetrators.
Pensacola Bay Area Impact 100 broke the $10 million threshold of giving Sunday as the organization awarded 11 grants worth $100,300 apiece to nonprofits in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
