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A Molino man has been sentenced to 20 months in state prison after a traffic stop escalated into a drug trafficking charge. Jeffery Gene Brown, 44, was initially charged with first-degree felony trafficking in methamphetamine, and later pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of third-degree felony possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. He was [...]

Tuesday was National Bus Driver Appreciation Day, with local schools taking the time to thank those who safely transport students to and from school each day. At Ransom Middle School, the PTSA honored school bus drivers with breakfast from Wawa, and Lipscomb Elementary School welcomed bus drivers to school with a large banner. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click [...]

Wednesday is starting out cloudy before clearing up, with a high reaching 87. Keep an eye out for a few late afternoon storms, followed by a much higher chance of rain and possibly half an inch of accumulation overnight. Thursday and Friday will stay mostly cloudy and cooler with lingering rain chances, leading into a [...]

Rivers in the North Escambia area are dropping closer to historic lows as the area is currently in an extreme drought. At Century, the Escambia River was at 2.69 feet and falling at 11 p.m. Tuesday; the all-time record low level was 1.30 feet in 1954. The Perdido River at Barrineau Park was at 1.34 feet [...]

Christopher Summers, 58-year-old Florida Department of Corrections inmate, has been convicted of mailing threatening communications to a federal judge in Pensacola. Court documents and evidence presented at trial revealed that in October 2024, Summers sent a handwritten letter addressed to a Federal District Judge M. Casey Rodgers at the Federal Courthouse in Pensacola, Florida....