Stories by Staff Reporters
Stories by Staff Reporters
Flashback: B-52 Stratofortress – first operational delivery
July 3, 2025
June 29, 2025, marks the 70th anniversary of the first operational Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 Stratofortress delivery to the 93rd Bombardment Wing (Heavy) at Castle Air Force Base, Calif. The aircraft, RB-52B (52-8711), departed the Boeing Moses Lake testing facility at Larson AFB, Wash., and performed a seven-hour training mission prior to the delivery to Castle AFB.
“Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor”
July 2, 2025
It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the Southeast. Up especially early, a tall bony, redheaded young Virginian found time to buy a new thermometer, for which he paid three pounds, fifteen shillings. He also bought gloves for Martha, his wife, who was ill at home.
Pensacola man pleads guilty to multi-million dollar drug trafficking, money laundering crimes
July 1, 2025
Rayvaughn L. Andrews, 41, of Pensacola, Florida, pled guilty in federal court to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and money laundering offenses. The plea was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
Care within chaos
July 1, 2025
Bright green paintballs whizzed through the humid air in all directions. Many zoomed past or contacted the advancing three-Airmen team desperately trying to reach a casualty 50 yards away.
UWF teams up with Pensacola Police to introduce patrol planning tool to enhance community safety
June 30, 2025
An applied research project led by Dr. Nicholas Hasan Buker, chair and professor in the Department of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the University of West Florida, has produced a new evidence-based approach to designing police patrol beat borders.