Celebrating Florida’s 200 year history in Pensacola

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — In the last few months, state troopers have seen an alarming trend in traffic accidents across Alabama.

More drivers are dying in these accidents as a result of not wearing a seat belt, despite it being a state law for decades.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) – For the first time in nearly a year and a half, Gallery Night has returned to downtown Pensacola.

“Gallery Night coming back is a bit of comfort and Pensacola culture we’ve been waiting for,” Gallery Night Executive Director Sydney Robinson said.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gloria Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed away the bayonet of a National Guardsman, has died. She was 99.

Tya Young, her granddaughter, said Richardson died in her sleep Thursday in New York City and had not been ill. Young said while her grandmother was at the forefront of the civil rights movement, she didn’t seek praise or recognition.