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Escambia County woman who never smoked learned she has lung cancer; nurse stresses importance of early detection
PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — In August, Joann Martin of Escambia County, Alabama, came to Ascension Sacred Heart in Pensacola for a back surgery consultation. But what she wasn’t expecting was a call with the unthinkable news: a cancer nodule in her right lung. “I mean, when you hear that, you just, I didn’t know what to […]
Pensacola News Journal
Pace man who killed Luca Kukuk in DUI crash avoids trial with plea
A Pace man who killed 22-year-old Luca Kukuk nearly two years ago in a vehicle crash on Woodbine Road avoided a trial in his case after taking a plea Friday morning. Claiming he "didn't want to put the family through a trial," 35-year-old Leslie Highstreet pleaded no contest Nov. 13 to four felony counts related to the March 6, 2025, death of Kukuk: leaving the scene of a crash involving death, DUI manslaughter, vehicular homicide and resisting an officer without violence. "Today I come before you to accept responsibility for my actions," Highstreet told the judge during the Friday hearing. "March 6 — I understand many lives were changed that day (and) destroyed multiple families, and I just can't imagine what that family has been going through the past 20 months." Highstreet left Mugs & Jugs in Escambia County the night of the fatal accident and headed into Santa Rosa, driving down Woodbine Road. As he and Kukuk's vehicles were approaching one another, Highstreet swerved into the southbound lane and hit Kukuk's sedan in a head-on collision. Kukuk was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS. Troopers later found Highstreet after he and his dog fled the scene on foot.