The fires drew 20 units to incidents in Bellview and Cantonment, according to an ECFR Facebook post. Each blaze threatened nearby houses and open land but caused no structural damage. Crews reached ...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputies are searching for a woman in connection with her 5-year-old son’s death. According to Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons, ...

UPDATE (2:45 p.m.): 36-year-old Jalynda Smith has been arrested in connection with the death of her 5-year-old son. According to Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons, Smith’s sister called the sheriff ...

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Feb. 5, 2026 ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — The waters of Escambia Bay are open again to shellfish harvesting, according to the Florida Department of ...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Jalynda Smith, 36, has been arrested for aggravated manslaughter of a child after Escambia County Sheriff’s Office detectives said she deprived her 5-year-old son of ...

Escambia County's Interim Medical Director for Public Safety, Dr. Ben Abo, implemented new training protocols for paramedics and emergency responders soon after he took the job in April 2025. Abo says ...

Presidents Day isn't usually considered one of the heavyweight holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving or Easter, but it's a federal holiday all the same, meaning schools will be closed Feb. 16.

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29 restaurants in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties received perfect scores on their latest inspections No restaurants received a high-priority violation during the week of February 2-8 Here's the ...

UPDATE: A Pensacola woman is behind bars charged with the death of her 5-year-old son. Jalynda Smith was booked into the Escambia County Jail about 1:37 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 7. Jail records show she is ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The University of West Florida has been awarded a five-year, $555,000 National Institutes of Health R25 Research Education Grant from the Nat Pensacola man pleads guilty to selling ...

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. "I kept joking through that whole class, ...