Frontier Communications of the South is discontinuing copper-based landline phone services in Northwest Florida, including Walnut Hill, Molino and Bratt, and the Atmore area in Alabama.
The application for Alabama is already approved by the FCC. A related application to discontinue legacy telephone service in Frontier’s Florida service territory was scheduled for automatic FCC approval  on [...]

An inmate at Century Correctional Institution has been convicted and sentenced to additional time in prison following a routine search that uncovered a large cache of contraband hidden on his person, including a trafficking amount of methamphetamine.
An Escambia County jury found 45-year-old Shane DeWayne Hollis guilty of felony trafficking in methamphetamine and possession of a [...]

A new closure is expected to begin today, August 29, on West Roberts Road between Tate Road and Highway 29 as crews continue roadway reconstruction for the $4.6 million West Roberts Road Roadway and Drainage Improvements Project.
West Roberts Road between Tate Road and Highway 29 is expected to reopen after Labor Day weekend, weather permitting. [...]

Two members of the Century Town Council have been appointed to serve on 2026–2027 Florida League of Cities (FLC) Legislative Policy Committees.
Councilwoman Shelisa McCall Abraham was appointed to the Development, Code Compliance, and Redevelopment Committee, while Councilmember Sparkie Harrison was named to the Finance and Taxation Committee.
Committee appointments were made by Florida League of Cities [...]

A six-person jury deliberated for less than one hour Thursday before convicting embattled contractor Jesse Wayne LaCoste of Cantonment on charges of racketeering and organized fraud over $50,000.
Jurors found LaCoste guilty under Florida’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, as well as organized fraud, for using his company, LaCoste Construction Group, to defraud dozens [...]

A Jay man was sentenced to 40 years in state prison this week on multiple felony child sexual abuse charges.
Judge Clifton Drake sentenced Kyle Wesley Allen Stover to 40 years in state prison followed by lifetime sex offender probation for lewd or lascivious molestation (victim less than 12 years of age, defendant 18 years of [...]

The Town of Century has issued a “Drinking Water Warning” after sampling showed elevated lead levels in some homes.
“We collected samples and analyzed them for lead. The results of more than 10 percent of our samples exceeded the action level for lead,” the notice stated about the samples collected at faucets inside the homes August [...]

An Alabama man has been sentenced to life in federal prison for fatally shooting and running over a woman on January 2, 2025, near an apartment complex behind Kohl’s on Nine Mile Road.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said it responded to the area of an apartment complex on Baldridge Drive about 8:30 p.m. to find [...]

Every November, NorthEscambia.com takes you to Farm-City Week, and this year we are giving you an early sneak peek.
During Farm-City Week just before Thanksgiving, a couple of hundred student volunteers from Escambia and Santa Rosa counties will work for a day in the fields near Jay for the harvest.
This week, the UF/IFAS West Florida Research [...]

A family of nine people was displaced after a fire destroyed their Flomaton home early Wednesday morning.
The mother, father and their seven children were able to escape without injury.
The fire was reported just after 2:30 a.m. in the 20000 block of Highway 31, just a few feet west of the Flomaton town limits. Firefighters were [...]

The Town of Century on Tuesday night honored the life and service of former Century mayor and councilman Luis Gomez, Jr., who passed away recently. He was 64.
Gomez was appointed interim mayor in August 2023 after the resignation of then-mayor Ben Boutwell. He was later elected to the position with no opposition in 2023 in [...]

A Cantonment felon has pleaded guilty in federal court to federal weapons charges.
Jesse Allen Hudson, 43, entered the guilty plea to one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon and one count of possession of an unregistered firearm.
Hudson faces up to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced in [...]