Public health workers are going church to church and house to house in the state's secluded valleys to dispel COVID myths, ease isolation, bring aid, and convince wary residents to get vaccinated.
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Santa Rosa County commissioners on Tuesday began addressing traffic in Pace. -
Baptist Hospital is celebrating its 70th anniversary of serving the Pensacola area this month, with several low-key events in-house because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ground is broken for a new K-8 school in Pace.
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Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson hosted an Indigenous People’s’ Day ceremony at City Hall Monday.
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The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola is expanding their human performance research.
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Some counties are requesting extra money to cover the costs that will be incurred, including the mandate that ballot drop-off boxes be guarded by an employee of the elections office when in use.
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A report released Friday shows that red tide continues to creep northward along Florida's Gulf Coast, clear up the Florida Panhandle to Navarre Pier, near Pensacola.
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An organization that represents forest landowners says in Florida, many are still recovering from Hurricane Michael. So the association is asking Congress to pass legislation that would help Panhandle residents recover their lands and losses.
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Republicans are gearing up to fight vaccine and mask mandates imposed by local governments. Sen. Keith Perry's, R-Gainesville, proposal comes amid lawsuits between state and local governments over such measures.
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A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Norman Baylor, former director of the FDA's Office of Vaccines Research and Review, about the differences in booster recommendations for the COVID-19 vaccines.
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Megan Rice spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons.
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Morey, a well-known surfer in Southern California in the '50s and '60s, invented the Boogie Board in 1971 in Hawaii. Morey's invention remains a popular choice for those wanting to ride some waves.
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Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed as he jogged through a neighborhood near Brunswick, Ga. in 2020. Three white men in pick-up trucks pursued him and then confronted him.
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Seventeen missionaries were kidnapped by an armed gang in Haiti on Saturday. It was the latest in what experts are calling a kidnapping crisis in the country — a crisis largely driven by one gang.
