Escambia County

The judge rejected First Amendment arguments raised by the authors of "And Tango Makes Three," adding the school board "simply decided students wanting this particular book will have to get it elsewhere.”

Current and former board members went to a federal appeals court as they continue seeking to be shielded from testifying in a long-running legal battle about removing or restricting access to books.

A free recovery program has helped 400 people find hope and cut overdose deaths by 68 percent in just two years.

As financial pressure grows, local shelters adapt with food pantries, matchmaking and waived adoption fees.

The Escambia school board voted 5-0 to remove hundreds of books without review. The books in question come from the Florida Department of Education's book removal list.

Escambia County has been a battleground in recent years as school districts in various parts of Florida have removed or restricted access to books.

The U.S Navy continues its investigation into PFAS contamination in off-base drinking water wells, conducting testing and providing mitigation.

Reversing an October decision in a legal battle over access to books, a federal judge this week ruled that Escambia County School Board members must testify about the removal of books from school libraries because the officials are not shielded by what is known as “legislative privilege.”

In a key battleground in the larger debate about removing and restricting school books, plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Escambia County School Board asked a federal judge this week to order officials to return to the shelves seven titles that have been off-limits for over a year.

An ugly legal battle between OASIS and AHF ─ involving a quarter-million dollars in federal funding for HIV medical care ─ is affecting hundreds of low-income patients in Northwest Florida.

A federal judge will hear arguments next month in a high-profile challenge to decisions by the Escambia County School Board to remove or restrict access to school-library books.

The Escambia County School Board, covering the Pensacola area, urged a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by authors, a publishing company, parents and a non-profit organization challenging the removal or restriction of books in school libraries.