The Jay Royals are FHSAA 1A state baseball champions.
The Royals beat the Bozeman Bucks 6-3 tonight.
More coverage Friday morning on NorthEscambia.com!
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Family members have identified one of the three victims of a deadly shooting in Baldwin County last Saturday as a mother of four from Century.
Chiquita Ewing, 38, was a Century resident and employee of Century pharmacy, family said.
Eighteen people were shot , three of which died, during a gathering Saturday night in north near Stockton, [...]

After sunny skies on Thursday, multiple rounds of severe storms and heavy rain will be possible Friday into Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
The possibility exists for heavy rain, flash flooding, damaging winds up to 6 mph, and  even a few tornadoes are possible.
Here is your official North Escambia forecast:
Tonight: A 50 percent chance [...]

A hit and crash backed up traffic for miles Wednesday morning.
The Florida Highway Patrol said an unknown pickup truck traveling north on Highway 90A (Davis Highway) made a U-turn in front of another pickup truck that was traveling south. The second driver swerved, ran off the road, and hit a utility pole before continuing down [...]

A judge had ordered an evaluation to determine if a man that evaded capture in the woods around Century for weeks is competent to stand trial.
Christopher George Pace, 41, arson, trespassing with property damage, resisting arrest without violence, and two additional counts of resisting.
Authorities said he spent most of this time in a heavy wooded [...]

Weather station data from last Friday morning’s severe storms provides insight into just how strong winds were.
At Northview High School, which suffered some damage to exterior items like the school sign, winds reached 64 mph at 3:26 a.m. At 3:35 a.m., a peak wind gust of 89 mph was recorded.
At the Walnut Hill Fire Station, [...]

A Cantonment man arrested on several outstanding warrants is facing fentanyl charges.
Shaquille Berod Solomon, 31, was charged with trafficking fentanyl and marijuana possession.
Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputies located Solomon on West Hernandez Street and arrested him on four outstanding warrants. At the time of his arrest, he had a plastic bag his pants pocket that [...]

Driver’s license and other tax collector services will be available in Century on Thursday, May 16  from 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. at the Billy G. Ward Courthouse.
Mobile Licensing and Identification Office (MILO) is a fully functional tax collector office on wheels, offering a range of services. The mobile unit provides a convenient method to [...]

A reported wrong-way driver was injured after crashing into a culvert on Highway 29 in Molino Monday morning.
Reported indicated the driver was going north in the southbound lanes of Highway 29 before crashing near CrossFaith Church. After hitting the culvert, the car came to a stop across the southbound lanes of Highway 29.
The driver was [...]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has expanded a state of emergency to include Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
On May 10, DeSantis issued a state of emergency declaration for several counties across north Florida following severe storms and tornadoes.
Tens of thousands in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties were left without power. Trees, power lines and power poles [...]

North Escambia and Santa Rosa County power outages on the upswing after this morning’s storms.
Escambia River Electric Cooperative was reporting 199 members without power as the day started — nine in Escambia County and 189 in Santa Rosa County.
At 11:15 a.m. there were 2,037 EREC outages — 394 in Escambia County and 1,643 in Santa [...]

A pickup truck crashed off a Pine Barren Road bridge and burned early Sunday morning.
The crash happened about 3:25 a.m. at a bridge over Canoe Creek, just south of Highway 168.
Firefighters from the Walnut Hill Station of Escambia County Fire Rescue arrived to find the red Toyota Tundra off the bridge and fully involved in [...]

North Escambia area residents were treated to a rare sight Friday night. The Aurora Borealis! was visible in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties all the way to the coast.
The experience, commonly called the northern lights, was caused by an extreme solar storm.

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With more opportunities to [...]