Upon today’s meeting of the Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding, Gov. Rick Scott announced that he will work with the Legislature to increase transparency for Florida hospitals and empower patients to fight against hospital price gouging in the upcoming 2016 legislative session.
The alleged perpetrator of a bank robbery five months ago at Navarre’s Centennial Bank, Joel Anthony Beauchemin, 22, was arrested Friday, Sept. 25 when he turned himself in at the Santa Rosa County Jail. Beauchemin graduated from Navarre High School in 2011 and was a member of the track and field team, football and baseball teams.
“The rains of Sept. 28 are an event that happens only once every hundred years,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Maniscalco referring to the amount of rain that fell within a six-hour period. “It was torrential.”
Felix Valle-Ulieses, 45, of Tortuga Street in Navarre, was arrested Saturday evening, Sept. 26 for lewd and lascivious behavior on a victim age 12 to 16.
The Gulf Breeze Fire Department is reassessing how it responds to calls for medical help from senior living facilities as development plans move forward for a second one inside the city limits.
First responses to traffic accidents and other emergencies in Santa could be reduced by several minutes thanks to a planned alliance of vehicle dispatch responsibilities with Escambia County assistance workers.
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Myers was remembered Sept. 28 as an individual who touched thousands of lives in countless positive ways in the decades he wore a badge.
Over the objections of several Santa Rosa County employees about the lack of raises, commissioners have passed a sizable budget increase for the new fiscal year without raising the property tax rate.
The Escambia County Jail inmates who have been housed in Santa Rosa since an explosion destroyed their facility in April 2014 are paying their own way as guests of Sheriff Wendell Hall.
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — My new best friend has sketchy bowel control, is banned for life from national parks and I’ve caught him in bed with my wife, but he’s an excellent hiking partner.
