Camille Abbamonte is a self-professed animal lover and advocate.  A couple of weeks ago she accidently stumbled across a beach dog park in Pensacola, so she stopped to take a look.  “I was in awe of how well it went, there must have been 40-50 dogs there.  Everyone was acting responsibly, the dogs were socializing, it was great.”  She liked it so much that she returned with her three rescues.  “Within 10 minutes, all three dogs were engaged and I made a new friend.  I met some wonderful people and my dogs were having a great time,” Abbamonte said.

The illnesses of six bald eagles found at the Central Landfill in Milton in 2014, including two that died, are still under investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

With the last chance of frost behind us, it’s time to begin that beautiful home garden you’ve always dreamed about. In exchange for a small monetary investment and some elbow grease, you can have amazingly fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit. Even for those who have little or no experience, growing your own garden can be a fun and extremely rewarding experience.

One wrong click by your child on your unmonitored computer could spell disaster or just an innocent sleepover gone wrong as 16-year-old Shauna Newell of Pensacola learned in 2006.  “A mile a minute, that is how fast your child can disappear,” according to the Klaas Kids Foundation’s website.  Locally, Brad Dennis works as the director of the Pensacola-based director of KlaasKIDS National Search Center for Missing and Trafficked Children and also runs the Called2Rescue ministry in an effort to activate, educate, empower and mobilize the churches in the fight against human trafficking. 

New changes to Social Security taking effective May 1, 2016, will mean 21.3 million Americans will no longer be eligible to collect an estimated $11.4 billion in crucial benefits.   If you are currently enrolled in Social Security, or are about to become eligible, this may affect you.