Airmen push limits at Martin Luther King basketball tourney
Service members joined together to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday by assembling fifteen-man teams to participate in a basketball tournament. The Martin Luther King Jr., basketball...
View ArticleIn the Mood sold out
The national touring artist show “In The Mood” scheduled for Saturday at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center at Northwest Florida State College is sold out of advance tickets. There is no waiting list....
View ArticleNegotiators talking to Ala. captor through pipe
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day as police surrounded an underground bunker where authorities said a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old...
View ArticleU.S. Marshal arrests final 2 suspects in kidnapping case
The U.S. Marshal’s Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force on Thursday captured the final two suspects in the reported kidnapping of a 23-year-old Niceville woman, according to a news release. Bertina...
View ArticleAll County Honor Band
Lewis School Band Director Robert Colón was selected by the Santa Rosa County middle school band directors to be the conductor/clinician of the 2013 Santa Rosa County Middle School All-County Honor...
View ArticleArmy family making do during soldier’s rehab
Dan Carlton went home Thursday for the first time in months. But he didn’t return to his house in Hammock Bay. Instead, the 31-year-old Seventh Special Forces Group (Airborne) soldier moved into a...
View ArticlePancake Breakfast
Magnolia Grill hosted a pancake breakfast for the Choctawhatchee High School Chorus on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. We appreciate Tom and Peggy Rice for hosting this fundraising event each year for us!
View ArticleLocal Relay for Life effort tops in nation
FORT WALTON BEACH — Okaloosa County might not be the most populous part of the United States, but its fundraising capacity for cancer research is unsurpassed. Officials with the American Cancer...
View ArticleLawmen say man forged work orders
FORT WALTON BEACH - A man who submitted false work orders to a labor-finding company was arrested by Fort Walton Beach Police and charged with forgery. Mark Allen Litwa, 42, of Fort Walton Beach, was...
View ArticleTo Sir, with rage
FORT WALTON BEACH - A 15-year-old girl was arrested after she allegedly battered a teacher at her school, lawmen report. On Jan. 7 Fort Walton Beach Police officers were called to the AMI Kids charter...
View ArticleMom doesn't want kids hitting each other; husband throws punch
FORT WALTON BEACH - A woman who didn't want her children hitting each other received a punch in the face from her husband, who disagreed with her child-rearing philosophy, lawmen say. The incident...
View ArticleConstruction under way on Mary Esther property
MARY ESTHER — Construction of a new retail complex on one of the last vacant parcels on Mary Esther Boulevard is on schedule and expected to be ready for four new businesses in April. Mary Esther...
View ArticleRecord road spending approved for Northwest Florida
FORT WALTON BEACH — An unprecedented $974 million in state funding is headed for Northwest Florida transportation projects, Sen. Don Gaetz announced Thursday. Gaetz, the Republican from Niceville who...
View ArticleDestin ABL franchise wins in blowout (GALLERY)
DESTIN - In its third opportunity to see the American Basketball League’s brand-new Destin franchise at home, the sizable crowd at the Destin Community Center for Thursday night’s meeting between the...
View ArticleSimulated F-16 crash in Valparaiso offers important training, officials say...
VALPARISO — The scene was appropriately grim Thursday for the simulated jet crash training exercise. Airplane pieces and people lay scattered throughout Valparaiso’s equipment yard. A barrel was on...
View ArticleMan convicted of attempted sexual activity with minor
FORT WALTON BEACH - A Destin man was convicted Wednesday of attempted unlawful sexual activity with certain minors and battery, according to the state attorney’s office. Benito Muniz, 64, would touch...
View ArticleMan sentenced for portable meth lab
MILTON - A Milton man was sentenced Wednesday by Santa Rosa County Circuit Judge David Rimmer to 10 years in prison after being caught with a portable methamphetamine lab in his truck last June,...
View ArticleChild taken to hospital after crash
BLUEWATER BAY - A 6-year-old child was taken to the hospital Wednesday night after a vehicle crash at Bluewater Boulevard and Antiqua Way, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Emad Zachary Wahab,...
View ArticleTwo charged after confrontation
PACE - A man and a teen were arrested Wednesday after they refused to leave a home on Kentwood Drive they entered and threatened the residents with knives, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s...
View ArticleHurlburt family have a ‘Cutest Kiddo’
Many parents and grandparents often claim to have the ‘Cutest Kiddo,’ but for one Hurlburt Field family, they have a $500 Exchange gift card to back up their words. Jennifer Demming, wife of Tech....
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