Pensacola Beach

Pensacola Beach getting back to business
Published September 6, 2010
Pensacola Beach gearing up for the busiest weekend all summer as Labor Day holiday approaches.

Fed rules limit oil dig on Pensacola Beach
Published September 6, 2010
Buck Lee is digging deeper into bureaucracy to get at the buried oil on Pensacola Beach

Florida celebrates: Life's a beach again
Published September 6, 2010
PENSACOLA BEACH — Hotel rooms are nearly sold out here for the three-day Labor Day holiday weekend, bolstering expectations that this will be the busiest weekend since the BP oil spill in April.

Want to sue BP? No oil spill required
Published September 6, 2010
For some beach businesses outside Northwest Florida, the effects of the BP oil spill may have resulted from perception, not reality. Consider the case of the Tradewinds Island Resort on St. Petersburg Beach.

Engineer Predicted Deepwater Horizon's Oil Slick Spread
Published September 6, 2010
As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill unfolded earlier this summer, a mechanical engineer helped cleanup crews keep up with the moving target by developing a steady stream of forecasts that predicted where the oil slick would spread several days in advance.

Want to sue BP? No oil required
Published September 6, 2010
Pensacola's Levin Papantonio law firm retained by Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association to help members navigate oil spill claims process.

No oil on the beach. No tourists, either
Published September 6, 2010
Tourists have been acting like the beaches of the Florida Panhandle are covered by oil, and for communities like Destin, their absence hurts.

Charges mount in Billings slayings
Published September 6, 2010
PENSACOLA — Hugh Wiggins, Pamela Long Wiggins and an acquaintance were indicted Friday in Mississippi on charges they tried to ditch guns used in last summer’s robbery and slaying of Byrd and Melanie Billings. A grand jury in Pascagoula, Miss.,...

New Prediction Tool For Oil Spill Spread, Other Contaminants
Published September 6, 2010
Prompted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has come up with a new way of predicting how contaminants like oil will spread. He was able to forecast several days in advance that oil from that spill would wash ashore in particular parts of the Gulf of Mexico. "We predicted where the oil was going to go," says Igor Mezic, a professor of mechanical engineering at UC ...

Divers Say No Oil On Sunken Pensacola Ship
Published September 6, 2010
A Team Of Divers With Florida's Fish And Wildlife Conservation Commission Says An Aircraft Carrier Sunk Of Pensacola As An Artificial Reef Is Free Of Oil From Bp's Massive...