An incident that would have been the first drowning since the launch of a new lifeguard program under the supervision of Navarre Beach Fire Rescue in 2019 was deemed to have been due to a cardiac episode and not a drowning.
It started with a post about race on Facebook and escalated into five teachers being placed on administrative leave as an investigation was conducted into unspecified allegations of misconduct by the Santa Rosa County School Board June 18.
On June 13, 1931, the counties of Escambia and Santa Rosa celebrated the opening of not only the Pensacola Bay Bridge that joined Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties, but also a bridge that crossed Santa Rosa Sound to a newly constructed casino at Pensacola Beach.
With legal action pending, the Santa Rosa County School District opted to hold impact fees in a separate account and not move forward with expenditure.
The FBI learned that Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a Saudi Air Force officer who killed three U.S. sailors and wounded eight others at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Dec. 2019, repeatedly communicated with al-Qaida operatives about planning in the months leading up to the attack.
Rear Admiral George D. Murray, commandant of Pensacola Naval Air Training center, invited Santa Rosa County citizens to attend the commissioning of its newest air station, Whiting Field, July 16 in a July 10, 1943, press release.
A prescribed burn got out of control May 4 near the intersection of Avalon Boulevard and Interstate-10, sparking a wildfire that burned more than 2,000 acres, displaced hundreds of people at a time and destroyed 14 homes.
