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One officer was taken to USA Medical Center. The status of the other officer has not been released.
   
Right now police have the suspect surrounded on Dauphin Island Parkway between Tampa and Deluna. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:01:35 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20349.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20348.shtml?wap=0
Roberta Dueitt and her daughter Sharon turned themselves in.

Dozens of malnourished animals were rescued from the Dueitt's properties one week ago. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:00:52 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20348.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20351.shtml?wap=0 17-year-old Sabryna Hughes was one of eleven killed in a massive vehicle pile up along Interstate 75.

Channel 3's Anthony Pura was at the vigil and has more on why many turned out to remember the life of the teenager. ...]]> Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:48:19 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20351.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20338.shtml?wap=0 Several vehicles were involved in the crash near Fairfield Drive and Palafox Street around 2:30 this afternoon.
     
Several people were taken to the hospital.
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Lockheed Martin says purchasing slowdowns will not affect Eglin's jets.
Laura Hussey "There are now nine F-35s at Eglin Air Force Base. Three of them are the "B" version that Marines are working on. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:27:45 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20345.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20341.shtml?wap=0
The "Raceway" on Palafox and Pace is selling gas for $2.99.
It's part of their grand opening celebration.

To help ease the pain at the pump WEAR is giving away 6 $100 gas cards. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:23:08 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20341.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20350.shtml?wap=0
Day was hired in 2009 as an Assistant Public Defender.
FDLE is looking into a complaint that Day was paid for work he didn't perform as well as allegations of fraudulent documentation. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 21:44:32 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20350.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20352.shtml?wap=0 They say around ten last night Sergeant Ted Cason crashed his motorcycle on Harbor Boulevard in Destin.

He refused a field sobriety test but deputies on scene say he smelled of alcoho and he was wobbly on his feet. ...]]> Sat, 4 Feb 2012 01:44:10 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20352.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20342.shtml?wap=0     
The Pensacola Marathon, the Future's Tennis Tournament and a busy schedule of soccer, baseball, softball and volleyball tournaments bring hundreds of teams to town. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:25:26 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20342.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20337.shtml?wap=0    
They will decide on whether to approve a multi-million dollar overpass or pedestrian walkway project.

If you want to get from the beach to the board walk you'll have to hit the crosswalk button wait for the signal to change before crossing the street. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:53:24 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20337.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20344.shtml?wap=0
They say around 10 last night 48-year-old Sergeant Ted Cason crashed his motorcycle on Harbor Boulevard in Destin.
    
He refused a field sobriety test but deputies on scene say he smelled of alcohol and he was wobbly on his feet. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:26:55 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20344.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20334.shtml?wap=0       
On Tuesday, Susan G. Komen for the cure announced it would cut its grant to Planned Parenthood because it was under government investigation. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:26:36 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20334.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20332.shtml?wap=0     
98 will be closed at Hurlburt Field in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Work needs to be done and why drivers need it done quickly. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:50:27 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20332.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20346.shtml?wap=0
"It is, it is, it's George Washington! Yaaaaay!"
  
Students at N.B. Cook Elementary school staged an original play about the "Presidents of Mount Rushmore". ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:57:25 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20346.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20340.shtml?wap=0  
That's not the only possible change anglers are upset about.
Gary: The 2012 Red Snapper Season will likely be the shortest in history, no more than 40 days according to Federal officials. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:22:30 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20340.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20339.shtml?wap=0
Doctor Edwin Roberts is the former chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
   
Roberts says the latest red snapper restrictions have simply gone too far. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:21:36 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20339.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20336.shtml?wap=0 The Fourth Annual Destin Harbor Party Gras parade is tomorrow.
   
The parade kicks of at 2 pm between AJ's Seafood and Oyster House and the west end of Harbor Walk Village.
   
There'll be more 60 floats, street performers and concerts. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:52:04 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20336.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20335.shtml?wap=0
The Pensacola Civic Center has been turned into a rodeo arena for the event.
   
The competition begins tonight (Friday) and runs through Sunday. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:51:32 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20335.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20323.shtml?wap=0 And a new report is giving an idea of much.

The Center for Security Policy says Escambia County alone could lose nearly $19 million from about $210 million in military contracts issued in 2010. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:37:11 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20323.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20326.shtml?wap=0
They were seized last week the Purple Hearted Puppies Shelter in Summerdale and the Robertsdale home of Roberta and Sharon Dueitt.
    
Both women now face 20 felony charges and potentially hundreds of misdemeanor cases of animal cruelty. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:40:45 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20326.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20324.shtml?wap=0
The "Veterans Jobs Corps" would spend a billion dollars and put some 20,000 veterans to work.
    
They would rebuild roads, levees and trails on public lands. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:38:48 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20324.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20325.shtml?wap=0     
The Labor Department says employers added 243,000 jobs last month.
    
That's the most new jobs in 9 months.
The unemployment rate dropped to 8. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:39:35 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20325.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20327.shtml?wap=0 A late night robbery of a downtown Pensacola restaurant.

We're still waiting on an official report from authorities.
But we do know it happened last night sometime around 10.
   
We're told the robber had a knife. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:41:56 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20327.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20328.shtml?wap=0
After it was reopened eleven people were killed in a chain of crashes on both sides of the interstate.
    
Governor Scott has asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to determine if proper procedures were followed in reopening the highway. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:43:40 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20328.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20333.shtml?wap=0     
Last night the lights at Maritime Park were tested.     
Last month construction crews lifted the top of the scoreboard into place and started rolling out the grass on the field. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:51:33 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20333.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20331.shtml?wap=0 It's part of a campaign to raise awareness about staying heart healthy.

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in both women and men in the United States.
    
And today you have a chance to learn about the risk factors; prevention, treatment, signs and symptoms. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:49:51 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20331.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20330.shtml?wap=0     
Anyone 55 and older can get free check ups to measure cholesterol, blood pressure, body fat, blood sugar and stroke risk.
    
There will also be health information available at booths provided by more than 50 different vendors. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:49:24 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20330.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20329.shtml?wap=0
The Eco-Nomic Living Expo is a free event.
It includes several seminars on identity theft, improving your credit score, becoming a farmer, landscaping and vegetable gardening. ...]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:49:00 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20329.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20314.shtml?wap=0     
The Secretary of Defense says Afghan forces may be able to take the lead in combat by the end of 2013.

Many in our area say they support the plan as long as it does not undo all the progress made over the past decade. ...]]> Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:30:24 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20314.shtml?wap=0 http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20313.shtml?wap=0 Soon you may not have a choice.
   
The Florida Department of Transportation says it's all still in the research phase.
   
As we speak they are in the middle of a study on replacing the bridge. ...]]> Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:24:22 CDT http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20313.shtml?wap=0