- The Rev. Hugh King, community leader and pastor of Greater Union Baptist Church, is arrested for cocaine possession. The church has suspended him indefinitely.
- Fred "Sport" Suttles is sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for tax fraud.
- The ECUA Board votes unanimously to increase service rates to help pay the $300 million cost of moving the Main Street Wastewater Treatment Plant.
- A Blue Angels F/A-18 jet crashes at a Beaufort, South Carolina air show, killing its pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Davis.
- Sports: The Pensacola Pelicans fall to the Coastal Bend Aviators 4-1 in Corpus Christi, TX.
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