Quilt show draws hundreds of crafters
DESTIN — Hundreds of crafters meandered through the Palms of Destin Resort and Conference Cen-ter on Friday morning for the Flying Needles Quilt Guild quilting show. The Emerald Coast Quilt Retreat...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Clean up this carport ... or else!
If folks in Destin aren’t careful, the world’s luckiest fishing village soon could become the world’s nosiest fishing village. Just last month, we learned that some city officials want to essentially...
View ArticleGraham to speak March 17 at Destin church
DESTIN — Ruth Graham, nationally acclaimed motivational speaker, author and Bible teacher, is the featured speaker March 17 at the 9 a.m. contemporary services in the Destin Life Center on the United...
View ArticleSixth person charged in January kidnapping
A sixth person has been arrested in connection to the January kidnapping of a 23-year-old Niceville woman. Thomas Samuel Bright of Crestview was arrested Thursday evening and charged with kidnapping...
View ArticlePHOTO GALLERY: 10-year anniversary of jet crash
It was 10 years ago today that an Air Force T-38 jet flying into Eglin Air Force Base crashed in a Valparaiso neighborhood. Luckily, the pilot ejected and nobody on the ground was injured. The...
View ArticleDestin wins Travel Channel's Best Family Beach 2013: 'Focus on the family is...
DESTIN — What Emerald Coast residents have known for years has been confirmed with the Travel Channel’s online poll for the Best Family Beach of 2013. The Destin area received 43 percent of the votes...
View ArticleFWB man convicted of lewd and lascivious molestation
FORT WALTON BEACH — A 26-year-old man has been found guilty of lewd and lascivious molestation on a child under 12 years old. Manuel Alexandra Peralta-Morales of Fort Walton Beach was convicted...
View ArticleMladen and Del review: 'A Good Day to Die Hard'
"A Good Day to Die Hard" Starring Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch. Directed by John Moore. 97 minutes. Rated R. Mladen’s take Let’s do the numbers. The numbers of objects destroyed in...
View ArticleNWF State women ready for road game in region semifinal
The road to a championship is never easy --especially when that road leads to a rival’s back yard. When the Northwest Florida State Lady Raiders hit the court today in an attempt to reach the Region...
View ArticlePolish man taken to hospital with screwdriver in head
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish doctors say a 25-year-old man has undergone a three-hour operation to remove a screwdriver lodged about five centimeters (two inches) into his head. Dr. Jan Kochanowicz,...
View ArticleLocal bases step up war on sexual assault
HURLBURT FIELD — Over the past year, the base has upped its sexual assault response training. The number of trained sexual assault victim advocates has doubled, and this past month Hurlburt Field...
View ArticlePHOTO GALLERY: Friday at the beach
Warming weather and spring break are drawing folks to Okaloosa County's beaches. See photos of the scene on Friday. >>
View ArticleEthics bill passed without lobbying exemption for sitting legislators
Ethics reform was the No. 1 priority this session for incoming Florida Senate President Don Gaetz. He was able to convince the Senate this week to join him in passing a bill that, it is said, could do...
View ArticleNWF State softball falls to LSU-Eunice (GALLERY)
NICEVILLE – Winners of seven of eight and sporting an 8-1 mark at home, the Northwest Florida State Raiders came into the 13th An-nual Jimmy Stewart Invitational playing their best ball of the year....
View ArticleOfficials lobby for trauma center in Okaloosa County
FORT WALTON BEACH — Changes could be made soon to the number of certified trauma centers in Northwest Florida and throughout the state. The Florida Department of Health hosted a workshop Friday...
View ArticleShalimar boy undergoes two surgeries to fix scoliosis
The first time Bill Dubose remembers his son Tanner showing him a lump on the left shoulder blade was about three years ago. It wasn’t hurting his then 9-year-old son or keeping him from doing...
View ArticleFormer Destin mortgage broker sentenced to two years in prison
A former mortgage broker in Destin has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution after he was found guilty of bank fraud in December. Randolph Branham, 46,...
View ArticleTwo arrested after meth lab dismantled
Crestview - Two people were arrested after a methamphetamine lab was dismantled at a home on Kennedy Drive on Friday, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office. The Multi-Agency Drug Task...
View ArticleBamboo fire damages shed
Mary Esther - A fire that began in a 20-foot-tall bamboo patch on Gregory Drive damaged a storage shed on Lorraine Drive, said Frank Matheny, assistant chief of the Mary Esther Fire Department. No one...
View ArticleCar overturns, hits utility pole on U.S. 98
GULF BREEZE - A man was listed in serious condition Thursday after crashing into a utility pole on U.S. Highway 98, according to Florida Highway Patrol. Ilan Danino, 39, of Gulf Breeze, was driving a...
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