Property Tax Discount Ends Next Week

PROPERTY TAX DISCOUNT ENDS ON MONDAY

If you haven't paid your Escambia County property taxes yet, here's a heads up. The four percent discount on real estate and personal property taxes expires Monday, December 1st. To get the discount, your payment needs to be mailed with a November postmark, dropped off at a county office by midnight Monday, or paid online by midnight the same day. You can pay online anytime at EscambiaTaxCollector.com. The county offices will be closed Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving.

Ascension Sacred Heart to Open Perdido ER in December

ASCENSION TO OPEN PERDIDO KEY EMERGENCY ROOM NEXT MONTH

Ascension Sacred Heart is opening a new emergency room in Perdido Key next month. The state-of-the-art facility on Sorrento Road will have two triage areas, a trauma room, nine treatment rooms, and imaging technology. The grand opening is December 3rd at 9 a.m. The 11,000-square-foot emergency room will employ more than 40 people and be run jointly by Sacred Heart Pensacola and Studer Family Children's Hospital. It's the third freestanding emergency room for Ascension, with another location planned for Pace in 2026.

Man Found Guilty of Shooting Following Package Dispute in Brownsville

Escambia County, FL (Newsradio 92.3) -- A 30-year-old man has been found guilty of second-degree murder with a firearm in Escambia County. Shybri Steverson was convicted in the fatal shooting of Guy Dixon, Jr. The shooting happened back in November of 2023, in the Brownsville area following an argument over a missing package. Dixon was shot in the abdomen and died at a hospital, leaving behind three children. Eye-witness testimony was key to the conviction. Steverson faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for December 11th.