- Escambia County Superintendent of Schools Jim Paul (pictured) announces that he will not seek re-election.
- Former Greater Union Baptist Church pastor Hugh King is removed, by an 11-1 vote, from the Community Maritime Park Associates Board, after pleading no contest to cocaine possession last month.
- Cancun's Mexican Grill in Gulf Breeze is raided by federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Agency. The restaurant's owner, Rogelio Chavez, was arrested and is awaiting trial on various charges.
- U.S. District Court prosecutor Roy Atchison, jailed after allegedly traveling to Michigan to have sex with a 5-year-old girl, commits suicide in detention.
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