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Pensacola area restaurant inspections: Steakhouse receives administrative complaint
Here's the breakdown of recent restaurant inspections in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties for the week of July 8-14. Florida's restaurant owners are not required to post restaurant inspection results where guests can see them. So, every week, we provide that information for you. During the latest round of inspections from the Department...
Final reports in for fires at Tailfins, Blue Mahoe and Mikato restaurants in Destin
Reports are in, and the cases are closed concerning the structure fires at Tailfins Waterfront Grill on April 27 and the Blue Mahoe and Mikato restaurants on May 8, all located on Harbor Boulevard in Destin. The state Division of Investigative and Forensic Services has ruled that both fires were...
Alabama Death Row inmate denied handwritten appeal to stop his execution
Alabama Death Row inmate Keith Gavin had said in a court filing by his attorneys last month he didn’t plan any more appeals of his scheduled lethal-injection execution Thursday for the 1998 murder of man at a bank ATM in Cherokee County. But in the past few weeks he...
Austal Breaks Ground on Final Assembly Facility
MOBILE, Ala. - Austal USA, a global ship builder and prime defense contractor, last week broke ground on the company's new final assembly facility. The infrastructure expansion will include a new assembly building, waterfront improvements, and a new shiplift system. The expansion will enable the erection of large steel modules...
Century man seriously injured in crash on State Road 4 in Escambia County: FHP
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — A Century man was seriously injured in a Wednesday morning crash, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. FHP Troopers said the crash happened on State Road 4 (West Highway 4) around 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday, July 17, after a78-year-old Century man driving a pickup truck pulling a trailer on eastbound […]
Price swells as the process to replace Theodore High School’s cooling towers inches along
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile County Public School System continues to spend $15,000 a month for a temporary replacement of two damaged cooling towers at Theodore High School. School Board Member Johnny Hatcher said a loose bearing caused a fan to bust out the top of one tower, damaging the inside of the nearly […]
Alabama child care grant, bonus money is ending. What happens next?
Alabama child care facilities have an opportunity to get one last round of grants from a pot of federal money. Once that money runs out, advocates say, they expect the state’s child care crisis to get even worse. They say they need long term investments to sustain the rapidly declining industry.
Alabama lawmakers speak on 2nd day of Republican National Convention
MONTGOMERY, Ala (WIAT) — Many conversations involving Alabama lawmakers are happening at the Republican National Convention as the political event enters day two. Houston County Republican Party chairman Alex Reynolds says history is being made at the convention. He also noted the unique atmosphere in the aftermath of former President Trump’s attempted assassination. “You talk about the energy […]
Alabama school districts with high teacher retirements: See where
The number of educators retiring in Alabama is climbing again, with nine school districts seeing the highest number of retirements in the past decade. Just under 3,100 employees retired from July of 2023 through June of 2024, according to the Teachers Retirement Systems of Alabama. Numbers include teachers and other staff who have vested in the system after at least 10 years of employment.
Alabama legislators to look at victim notification system for county jails
State officials met Tuesday in the first in a series of meetings to investigate how to create a victim notification system for individuals incarcerated at county jails. The Joint Interim Study Commission on Local and County Victim Notification, which held an organizational meeting at the Alabama Statehouse, comes after the state established a victim notification […] The post Alabama legislators to look at victim notification system for county jails appeared first on Alabama Reflector.
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