A Florida appeals court on Monday upheld a county court decision denying a teen’s request to have an abortion without notification and consent of a guardian because she is not “sufficiently mature” to make that decision. Escambia County Circuit Judge Jessica Frydrychowicz initially denied the request to bypass that part of Florida’s anti-abortion law, although …
A Florida dentist was arrested last week for the fourth time to face charges that he inappropriately touched female patients. Charles Stamitoles, 65, has been allowed to continue his Pensacola practice but was ordered after his last arrest in June to see only male patients, WEAR reports. The latest arrest, on Friday, charges Stamitoles with …
Florida authorities arrested a man Sunday after his 8-year-old son took his loaded handgun and fired off around that killed a baby and wounded a toddler. Roderick Dwayne Randall, 45, was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, two counts of culpable negligence, and tampering with physical evidence, the Pensacola News Journal …
A 42-year-old Florida man was found guilty of first degree murder on Thursday, more than four years after the body of 12-year-old Naomi Jones was found in an Escambia County creek. Robert Letroy Howard, a convicted sex offender, was arrested just three days after fishermen found the body about five miles from the apartment complex …
A Georgia man was arrested Tuesday and charged with making plans to abduct a Florida boy he met online and turn the boy into his “sex slave,” the Pensacola News Journal reports. Alexander Ingram, 37, has been charged with unlawful use of a two-way communication device in the commission of a felony and interference of …
A former nanny and foster parent in Pensacola, Florida, was arrested on Monday on child sex charges with at least two juveniles, and deputies there are concerned there may be more victims, according to NorthEscambia.com. Nicole Lynn Walter, 27, calls herself a self-employed porn actress, and investigators have uncovered at least three videos in which …
Authorities in Florida say a suspect surrendered without having been under investigation during an unusual exchange at a Pensacola police station earlier this month. According to the New York Post, 24-year-old Cory Hinsch told officers that he had visited the “dark web” and downloaded child pornography files to his cellphone. Police say he voluntarily gave …
Police in Okaloosa County, Florida, are asking for the public’s help in locating a Fort Walton Beach mother and two young daughters who were reported missing by the woman’s mother on Tuesday. Per WALA, Rose Marie Howard, 28, and her two children, Carina Ruiz, 2, and Layla Ruiz, 4, (pictured left to right) are believed …
A federal judge ruled yesterday that the cross at Bayview Park in Pensacola, Florida, must be removed within 30 days, and while the city tries to determine how to move forward after the ruling, a debate on social media with many residents outraged it’s being removed while others are in support of it. Pensacola News Journal …
An Escambia County, Florida, woman is accused of killing her son and stabbing her daughter on Tuesday, while her two grandchildren watched in horror. Pensacola News Journal reports that Janel Charlene Francis, 45, allegedly stabbed her daughter, Gabrielle Torrence, 24, in the neck, and fatally stabbed her son, Devan Francis, 18, at the Heritage Oaks Mobile Home Park on Gulf …
